Best in Black 多单元房屋 by Fernando Valdez is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 金奖 in 建筑与结构设计 Competition Category.

金建筑· 2020

Best in Black 多单元房屋

by Fernando Valdez

Client: Valdez Arquitectos

A' Design Award 金奖 Winner in 建筑 Category

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The Design

About Best in Black 多单元房屋

Best in Black是一个旨在创建新型住宅建筑的项目。公寓的室内设计代表了符合墨西哥建筑风格的工业设计，所选材料旨在在公共区域营造出一种奇妙的感觉，并为公寓营造出温暖的外观，与干净，清醒的外观形成鲜明对比。四个立面的灵感显然来自于俄罗斯方块游戏形状的随机放置，这些形状形成建筑物的墙壁和窗户，营造出明亮的氛围，为用户带来舒适感。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 金奖

Best in Black 多单元房屋是 A' Design Award 金奖得主，这是授予一流、绝妙而杰出设计的极为崇高的认可。金奖得主是极具创新、极富远见且璀璨夺目的创作，反映出其设计师的天才、智慧与才干。预计Best in Black 多单元房屋将成为一项备受赞誉、引领潮流、气势恢宏的发明，带来前所未有的价值。这件赢得 A' Design Award 金奖的设计是一个壮观而受人敬重的项目，极大地造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Best in Black 多单元房屋激起强烈的渴望，唤起激情，鼓励创造力，令我们着迷。

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