It appears to be that determined number of dwellings is the maximum; we understand that construction of fewer dwellings is equally acceptable. Is that so? The most sought-after would be to put forward the number of dwellings indicated in the terms, using up all of the buildable potential available. Although a small reduction in the number of dwellings would not be of great consequence, a sizeable reduction would be. Consider that for each lost dwelling a family will lose the opportunity to access to housing: weigh up if the quality of your proposal compensates for this. As we are not able to find anywhere how we should plan storerooms, we understand that providing an area for these is optional. Could you clarify this point for us? It would be advisable to plan for a storeroom for each dwelling, doing so in a way that its surface area does not have consequences for the buildable potential. Where can we download the PGOU (Plan General de Ordenación Urbana, the Land Usage and Ruling Act) for Mieres? The PGOU has just been published on this web. Please check the area related to this site. In the information provided for this site, the planning regulations pf the Vasco-Mayacina Local Plan appear. In these regulations you supply those of the PGOU (Plan General de Ordenación Urbana, the Land Usage and Ruling Act) and the local authority bylaws. It has been difficult for us to find both the PGOU regulations and the local authority bylaws. We would be grateful if you should advise us how we can obtain this information. Please check last question. I request clarification of the possibility of planning inward and outward projections in the total amounts, as we cannot locate their exact definitions. Please check last question. What is the maximum projection allowed in the projected parts in the façade that faces the sports facilities? The same which must be applied to street façades. Please check PGOU (Plan General de Ordenación Urbana, the Land Usage and Ruling Act) on this site web area. I believe that in blocks five, six and nine at the Mieres site there are differences between the surface areas of the plots that appear in the "buildable potential and residential plot use table" of the bylaws and the surface areas that emerge after measuring the area of what appears to be the plot boundaries in the provided plans. Thus, in block five, plot 5a measures 629m2 according to the table and 547.82m2 according to the plan, and plot 5c measures 545m2 in the table and 625.96m2 on the map. In block six, plot 6a measures 718m2 in the table and 873.65m2 in the drawings, and plot 6b 766m2 in the table and 611.62m2 in the drawings. In block nine, plot 9b measures 875m2 in the table and 960.29m2 on the map, and plot 9c 765m2 in the table and 680.34m on the map. Although the total surface areas of the plots in each block is equal in the table and the plans, it appears to be important to respect the surface area and building line of each plot within them, given that on some occasions contrasting numbers of stores for each plot within a block, as well as the number of dwellings on each plot, are provided in the mentioned table. In each case the table information and the buildable potential bestowed to each plot will prevail. The plot boundaries within the same block should only be taken into account with regard to allotting the retail premises and the number of stories. Concerning the remainder, the maximum number of dwellings should be adhered to in each block, though not necessarily on each specific plot (for example, while it will not be necessary to adhere to the number of 30 dwellings on plot M.5a, 30 dwellings on plot M.5b and 26 dwellings on plot M.5c, but, this would not be so in the 86 dwellings on plot M.5), nor the boundary between plots on of the same block. On plot 5C of block five, the table features five stories and six dwellings per story, and a total number of dwellings as 26 instead of 30. Should we adhere to the total of 26 dwellings although there are always six dwellings per story? The number of 86 dwellings on plot M.5 should be adhered to; distributed in the way that the bidder considers most suitable. Where could we find and download the habitability rules concerning the affordable homes in Asturias? The question also applies to remainder of the autonomous regions. The information mentioned can be obtained without difficulty on the Internet, being Order in Council (primary Legislation) 38/1998 (25 June) by which regulations are passed for the design of residential buildings in the Principality of Asturias, published in the Boletín Oficial del Principado de Asturias (BOPA, Oficial Bulletin of the Principality of Asturias, dated 16 July 1998. Does the percentage of each type of dwelling (according to its floorspace) have to comply with the whole site, each plot or each block? The percentage of each type of dwelling should comply with each block and the total of the site. The Local Plan requests one parking space per dwelling. In the lineal blocks where the projection of the building coincides with the plot, acting in accordance with this requisite appears unfeasible. Is it obligatory? Yes, even if it must have a second floor basement. At any rate, the proposing of unsolvable problems is not amongst the objectives of the competition; we understand the problems posed by some of the plots (M.8 and M.12), urging in each case the bidders to be imaginative. In the closed blocks, can the buildable depth in the basement be exceeded? Yes. In the planning regulations for the Vasco Mayacina site, dwellings of two and three bedrooms, as well as those for large families are detailed. In the case of the latter, neither the number of bedrooms nor the room square metreage (dimensional parameters) are specified. The large-family dwellings should have four or more bedrooms. These will have a minimum floorspace of 9m2 if they are double bedrooms, and 6m2 if they are single; the minimum distance between opposite parameters will be 1.6m, in which a circle with a diameter 2.4m and 1.6m in each one respectively, can be drawn (design planning regulations of the Principality of Asturias). In the autonomous regions where design regulations have not been passed, the applicable will be those set out at central government level. In this case, the useable floorspace of all of the bedrooms will exceed 6m2, with each dwelling having at least one bedroom with a useable floorspace with no fewer than 10m2 (provisional bylaw passed by Ministerial Order 29/05/1969, modified by Ministerial Order on 4 May 1979, extended by Ministerial Order 16/05/1974 and modified by Ministerial Order 21/02/1981. Those others that will also be applicable will be in each case the minimum dimensions set out in the corresponding PGOU (Plan General de Ordenación, Land Usage and Ruling Act). Is the provision of underground parking not contemplated on any plot? In order to avoid squandering buildable potential, all car parking must be located in the basements. Would it be possible in some areas, while maintaining the buildable potential and the number of dwellings, to free up the basement, leaving the block higher? No. What you propose would require an awkward modification procedure to the local plan in which other bodies and agencies, outside the competition organiser, are involved. While maintaining the buildable potential and the quantity of dwellings, can the maximum heights be varied, for example, instead of five floors in one block, three and seven? No. What you propose would require an awkward modification procedure to the local plan in which other bodies and agencies, outside the competition organiser, are involved. At the Mieres site, the "sturdy capacity" defined by the regulations and the required buildable potential concur almost to the millimetre. This implies that if all bidders respect the regulations, the total volume that their proposals reflect will be precisely the same, given that not using up the buildable potential seems senseless. The panel will not be able to value either any relative aspect with regard to the form of the buildings or appropriateness to the part of the city created. The proposal capacity of the bidders will be reduced to the internal configuration of the homes, their insertion within this volume, and their façades. It is certain that this occurs at times in competitions whose purpose is the sole building of homes; something that seems little, taking into account the expanse of the project, the ambitious nature of the competition and the desire to provide "avant-guard homes". If we believe that a good home arises both from each residential unit and from the manner in which they interact among themselves and with the city, would it not be wiser to establish parameters such as buildable potential and the number of homes, to be able to judge under equal conditions all the proposals, yet allowing increased freedom with regard to heights, occupation, setbacks and so forth? As we see it, the most sensible approach is that which we are proposing. The bidders must provide an architectural solution to local plans passed by the competent and existing authorities, whose development projects have already or are being carried out. We share your concerns and are working on new projects that will also study urban distribution proposals and increased regulatory freedom. I would like to know if, in the specific case of the Vasco de Mayacina site in Mieres, the project must adhere exclusively to the creation of homes or, moreover, development aspects that must be designed such as roads, and structures of pavements, materials, woodland, colours, street furniture, etc. Additionally, do the amenities planned, such as the health centre, car parks, and above all PUBLIC OPEN SPACES, although in a schematic way, also have to be designed? Or should the location which they occupy be left blank? The project is complete apart from of the public open space, below which Mieres Council plans to construct a council car park. Thus, the proposal must adhere to the residential plots indicated in the technical conditions (M4 to M12). On the other hand, work on the bus station (plot SG) has already commenced. The remainder of the plots in the area, nonetheless, will be left to the criterion of the bidder.