A black house is not just a design choice, it’s a way to make your house stand out from the rest, while also keeping it from being too overwhelming.
Written by
Liliana Alvarez
The matte black modern house is more than just a design trend; it is a statement of individuality and a reflection of contemporary architectural innovation. As society continues to embrace bold and unconventional choices, the popularity of these designs is likely to grow.
Photography
Chestnut Homes
StudioAC introduces Everden, its new build construction of a single family residence. The brief was to create a home that felt unique and personal to the homeowners, unapologetically contemporary, while still having cues to the traditional ideas of “house”.
Project name
Everden Residence
Architecture firm
Studio for Architecture & Collaboration (StudioAC)
Photography
Doublespace Photography
Design team
Madeline Planer, Shasha Wang, Jonathan Miura, Audrey Liang, Jennifer Kudlats, Andrew Hill
Structural engineer
Blackwell Structural Engineers
Construction
Whitaker Construction
Typology
Residential › House
The Taft is a 3,930-square-foot, two-story, open plan house designed and built using HOMB, a prefabricated modular system developed by Skylab in collaboration with MethodHomes. The system provides an alternative to the typical time-consuming process of conventional site construction while also minimizing waste through precision prefabrication.
Architecture firm
Skylab Architecture
Location
Portland, Oregon, USA
Photography
Michael Cogliantry, Jeff Van Bergen (construction photos by Skylab)
Design team
Jeff Kovel, Principal Design Director. Brent Grubb, Principal In Charge
Collaborators
MethodHomes
Interior design
Skylab Architecture
Construction
MethodHomes (prefabrication contractor)
Typology
Residential › House
A House designed on a typical small mountain terrain of Córdoba. Located in La Pankana, in the town of Calera, we project a single-family home where the principal idea was to break with the traditional premises. The point of attention was placed on the choice of concrete as the protagonist material in all its senses.
Architecture firm
AR Arquitectos
Location
La Pankana, La Calera, Córdoba, Argentina
Photography
Gonzalo Viramonte
Tools used
AutoCAD, SketchUp, Revit, Lumion
Material
Concrete, Glass, Steel, Wood
Typology
Residential › House
In designing this project, the client of the project asked us to exactly design the Twin Sisters 1 project for them according to their needs. But we presented a new design for them according to their needs so that two units are completely separate from each other, where a central space is formed like a central courtyard, and in the middle of it is...
Project name
Twin sisters House 2
Architecture firm
Milad Eshtiyaghi Studio
Location
Duane, Franklin County, New York, United States
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Autodesk 3ds Max, V-ray, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Milad Eshtiyaghi Studio
Visualization
Milad Eshtiyaghi Studio
Typology
Residential › House
As you can see in the name of this project, the main theme of this design is dark which can not be energy taking because we have wonderful natural light volume in this project. You can access the swimming pool either in the bedroom or living room. Also a beautiful view of the swimming pool makes it much more amazing. To conclude the topic you can e...
Project name
Black Penthouse
Architecture firm
Arsalan Mirhosseini
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, V-ray, Chaos Vantage
Principal architect
Arsalan Mirhosseini
Design team
Arsalan Mirhosseini
Visualization
Arsalan Mirhosseini
Typology
Residential › House
This is a modern villa design in India. The client wants us to have a amazing villa with a lot of terraces and a great entrance with an awesome landscape. We tried so hard to do a unique design and make it dreamy.
Architecture firm
Amin Moazzen
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Amin Moazzen
Visualization
Amin Moazzen
Typology
Residential › House
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