131 subsidised housing units in Mieres

Zigzag Arquitectura (2)
Zigzag Arquitectura
Bernardo Angelini Malatesta
David Casino Rubio

Capturing the place, reconnecting with the valley: one of the most interesting characteristics that can be perceived in the place is that, despite being in the middle of the built-up urban mass of Mieres, it is possible to reconnect with cut-out views of the mountain and the meadows of the valley above. We wanted to recover this dual quality for the project, urban and rural at the same time.

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We sought a volumetric interplay between the building and its surroundings, voids and cut-outs that would allow us to observe mountains between buildings, fragments of the Asturian landscape in the distance, while at the same time allowing the sun and the air to enter the interior space. An urban room. The interior square, a place for relationships. We propose a return to the origin of the place. An interior world that transports us to the visually lost meadows, an urban room, with fragmented edges, that captures the inhabitants of Mieres through its open doors to the city.

04_131 viviendas mieres_ZZA_A - Alberto Cubas
05_131 viviendas mieres_ZZA_A - Alejandro García

Opening up the block was another of our properties, making the interior space not a forgotten back space, but the centre of the social relations of its inhabitants and a place to look at. The daytime spaces of the dwellings overlook this square, also generating activity on the façades that delimit it.

06_131 viviendas mieres_ZZA_A - Alberto Cubas

Façades, dialogues of memory: the dual nature of the project is reflected in its double material configuration. On the one hand, its urban face is made of steel and recalls the memory of the most industrial Mieres and the mines, the old economic engine of the city. The interior face of the building seeks a rural reference, a return to nature and to the origin, to the traditional Asturian porch, to the use of wood, which recalls with its vertical rhythms the forests of the nearby mountains.

07_131 viviendas mieres_ZZA_A - Alejandro García

General information

131 subsidised housing units in Mieres

YEAR

2010

Status

Built

Option to visit

Visit from public roads

Address

St. Dolores Ibarruri,

33600 Mieres - Asturias

Latitude: 43.247674498

Longitude: -5.776960823

Classification

Building materials

Steel

Wood

Concrete

Construction system

Structure of concrete slabs and metal pillars. Exterior envelope of lacquered steel panels. Terraces and interior lattice made of wooden slats.

Built area

5001 - 20000 m²

Awards

XI BEAU

A/P 2012

Involved architects

Bernardo Angelini Malatesta

David Casino Rubio

Collaborators

Emma Palenzuela (Technical Architect)

PGI group (Installations)

Jesús Hierro (Structures)

Alejandro García González (Basic and Execution Project)

Pedro Magro (Basic and Execution Project)

DyA ingenieros (Installations)

André Albuquerque (Basic Project)

Adober (Installations)

Diana Jusdado (Basic and Execution Project)

Joana Martins (Basic Project)

Alberto López Díez (Technical Architect)

Involved architectural firms

Zigzag Arquitectura

Information provided by

Zigzag Arquitectura

Website links

Arquia Próxima

BEAU XI

Zigzag Arquitectura

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