Best in Black Multi Unit Housing | Architecture Inspiration
Best in Black Multi Unit Housing by Fernando Valdez

Best in Black Multi Unit Housing

Golden A' Design Award Winner 2020

This architectural visualization presents a tall residential tower photographed during evening twilight, scanning from background to foreground to establish spatial orientation. The sky occupies the upper portion of the image, rendered in cool blue-gray tones suggesting overcast conditions with dramatic cloud formations creating atmospheric depth. The tower itself dominates the composition's center, rising approximately twenty stories with a slender rectangular profile oriented with its narrow dimension facing the viewer. The building's exterior is clad in dark charcoal-colored panels that appear smooth and matte, creating a sensation like cool slate or brushite stone to the touch. Punctuating this dark surface are numerous windows of varying sizes arranged in an irregular pattern, each emitting warm amber-gold light reminiscent of candlelight or late afternoon sunshine, suggesting cozy inhabited spaces within. Some windows appear as small squares, others as larger rectangular openings, and several reveal the depths of recessed balcony spaces where the warm glow penetrates further into shadow. At ground level, the tower connects to lower neighboring buildings constructed in traditional red-brown brick, their textures rough and weathered compared to the tower's crisp contemporary surfaces. Mature trees with dark silhouetted branches frame the tower's base, their forms organic and flowing against the geometric architecture. The overall atmosphere suggests early evening in autumn or spring, cool air temperature implied by the cloud-heavy sky, with the warm window lights creating an inviting contrast. Street-level elements including lampposts and small commercial structures establish human scale, while distant tower forms on the horizon suggest a larger metropolitan context extending beyond the immediate view.

Best in Black is a project that aims to create a new kind of residential building. The interior design of the apartments represents industrial design meeting Mexican architecture, the materials selected like wood, concrete and marble give the space a warm look and the palate of colors white and black represent the idea of the facade of the interior design. The four facades are clearly inspired in a random placement of the Tetris game shapes forming the walls and windows of the building, creating lighted atmospheres that generate comfort for the user.