Best in Black Rumah Tingga Multi Unit by Fernando Valdez

Best in Black Rumah Tingga Multi Unit by Fernando Valdez is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Ameh in Arsitektur Competition Category.

AmehArsitektur· 2020

Best in Black Rumah Tingga Multi Unit

by Fernando Valdez

Client: Valdez Arquitectos

A' Design Award Ameh Winner in Arsitektur Category

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The Design

About Best in Black Rumah Tingga Multi Unit

Best in Black adolah sabuah proyyek nan batujuan untuak manciptoan jenis bangunan parumahan nan baru. Desain interior apartemen ko mawakili pakabuangan antaro desain industri jo arsitektur Mexico, bahan-bahan nan dipiliah dimaksudan untuak manciptoan raso takajuik di ruang-ruang umum dan tampilan hangat untuak apartemen, iko dalam kontras jo fasad nan barih dan sadahano. Ampek fasad bangunan jelas tainspirasi dari panampatan acak bantuk-bantuk permainan Tetris nan mambantuk dindiang dan jandelo bangunan, manciptoan suasano bacahayo nan manghasilkan kanyamanan untuak pangguno.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Ameh

Best in Black Rumah Tingga Multi Unit adolah pamenang A' Design Award Ameh, sabuah pangakuan nan sangaik bapresti nan dibarikan ka rancangan kelas partamo, mangaguikan jo cumelang. Pamenang Ameh adolah ciptaan nan sangaik inovatif, bapandangan jauah jo baka-kilauan mamikaik nan mancaminkan bakaik, kabijaksanaan jo kahebatan parancangnyo. Best in Black Rumah Tingga Multi Unit dipaokan manjadi panemuan nan sangaik dipuji, panetap kacenderungan jo monumental nan mambari nilai nan alun pernah ado. Rancangan nan manang Ameh iko adolah proyek nan mangaguikan jo dihargai nan maluaskan batas seni, ilimu, rancangan jo teknologi. Best in Black Rumah Tingga Multi Unit malahiakan karinduan nan kuek, mambangkikkan gairah, mandorong kreativitas jo mamikaik kito.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The 19th-floor residential complex Best in Black located in the city of Puebla, Mexico, is a project that aims to create a new kind of residential building. Designing each floor different gave us an opportunity to play with the structure and distribution of the interior spaces, creating atmospheres that generate comfort for the user.
Dimensions & Packaging: Althought each floor and facade had to be different, we generated a singular size for the glass and marble that would be multiplied to create forms following the function of the structure. We managed to fit those singular pieces to generate interesting and clean perspectives
Tags: Architecture, Building, Housing, Tetris, Materials, Facade, Interior, Color
Production Technology: The interior design of the apartments reflects industrial design meeting Mexican architecture, the materials selected like wood, concrete and marble give the space a warm look and through the palate of colors white and black represents the idea of the facade of the interior design.
Design Challenge: This project was an opportunity to blend the private and public, there are nine different kinds of apartments mixed with the structure and the public spaces, this would make the user feel unique. Playing this tetris game as our original idea, we managed to have a balance of comfort and light in our main facade and the living areas.
Research: We researched the typical vertical structures in the city and found that glass was the most common material because views to the volcano and the mountains were a priority, we tried to make a balance between transparency and opacity.
Inspiration: The facade comes from an idea, the brick game. This old version had the same principals of the nowadays popular game but in a old black and gray version. The four facades are clearly inspired in a random placement of the Tetris game shapes forming the walls and windows of the building, meanwhile the dark tones in the materials is based on the abscene of color in that particular old version that the young future architect treasured for years.
Project Duration: The project design started in November 2018 and finished in April 2019 in Puebla, Mexico.
Operation Flow: While selecting the materials, we thought on contrasts, light and darkness, roughness and clearness. As a consequence, the stucture had to be mixed with the natural materials, the columns and beams divide the space depending on its use creating different heights and circulations.
Image Credits: Image #1: Night View, Image #2: Lobby, Image #3: Circulations, Image #4: Amenities, Image #5: Living room