Best in Black Primær funksjon: Boliger med flere enheter by Fernando Valdez

Best in Black Primær funksjon: Boliger med flere enheter by Fernando Valdez is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award i Gull in Arkitektur-, bygnings- og strukturdesign Competition Category.

GullArkitektur· 2020

Best in Black Primær funksjon: Boliger med flere enheter

by Fernando Valdez

Client: Valdez Arquitectos

A' Design Award i Gull Winner in Arkitektur Category

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The Design

About Best in Black Primær funksjon: Boliger med flere enheter

Boktekst: Best in Black er et prosjekt som har som mål å skape en ny type boligbygg. Interiørdesignen i leilighetene representerer industridesign som møter meksikansk arkitektur, og materialene som er valgt skal skape en følelse av undring i fellesarealene og et varmt uttrykk i leilighetene, i kontrast med en ren og nøktern fasade. De fire fasadene er tydelig inspirert av en tilfeldig plassering av formene fra Tetris-spillet, som danner veggene og vinduene i bygget og skaper opplyste atmosfærer som gir komfort for brukeren.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award i Gull

Best in Black Primær funksjon: Boliger med flere enheter er vinner av A' Design Award i Gull, en enormt prestisjefylt anerkjennelse som tildeles førsteklasses, praktfulle og enestående design. Gullvinnere er usedvanlig nyskapende, visjonære og glamorøst blendende skaperverk som gjenspeiler designernes geni, visdom og dyktighet. Best in Black Primær funksjon: Boliger med flere enheter forventes å være en høyt rost, trendsettende og monumental oppfinnelse som gir enestående verdi. Dette designet, som har vunnet A' Design Award i Gull, er et spektakulært, respektert prosjekt som i høy grad gagner og flytter grensene for kunst, vitenskap, design og teknologi. Best in Black Primær funksjon: Boliger med flere enheter skaper intense følelser av begjær, vekker lidenskap, oppmuntrer til kreativitet og fascinerer oss.

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