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In Valencia, the Arturo Sanz-designed Mira House is a renovation of an existing townhouse. Despite exposing the traditional steel and brick vaults and walls, it’s the floor that is the main attraction. Conceived as a collage of old and new materials, the floor reflects the function of the spaces as well as the building’s history. The ground floor features a smooth concrete and red brick floor, which continues out to the garden, blurring the boundaries between inside and outside. Sanz has retained some of the original hydraulic tiles, which are now laid out irregularly as accents across the floor, almost as if they were rugs. Upstairs, bedrooms feature more conventional, warm-coloured timber flooring.