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Is black the perfect color for your home? Oddly enough - yes! No wonder architects love him so much. Dark walls look elegant, fashionable, unusual and simply beautiful. Depressing, tragic, scary - all these are prejudices. I present direct proof of this - a selection of black houses from all over the world.
Residential complex "Salaryevo Park"
Address:
Kyiv highway, Moskovsky settlement, 14, building 2
Year of construction:
2017
The Salaryevo Park residential area is located in the southwest of Moscow. The group develops dozens of facade options for its houses, so none of them is similar to the other. The residential complex will have several houses with dark facades, the construction of several has already been completed.
Residential complex Grand Prix
Address:
Butikovsky lane, 5
Year of construction:
2003
The Grand Prix residential complex is located on the “Golden Mile” - in the most expensive area in the center of Moscow - between Ostozhenka Street and Prechistenskaya Embankment. The authors of the “black house” project are the architectural bureau Sergey Skuratov Architects. The following materials were used in the decoration of the facades: light stone, black Belgian brick, stained oak and aluminum. The residential complex consists of three 5-6-storey small-apartment mansions. One of them is located deep in the courtyard. Inside the courtyard, a Japanese-style landscape park has been created, decorated with coniferous trees, paved paths and green lawns.
Behind the dark side of the facade is a bright and cozy interior
Having crossed the threshold of a house with a dark facade, you find yourself in a completely different world. The feeling of light, space, and comfort does not leave you in any room. The striking contrast of the black palette of the façade and the light colors of the interior walls only enhances these feelings.
Nevertheless, unity with the design line of the facade is also felt in the middle of the house thanks to the dark floor and gray ceilings. The black, gray and white interior does not look pretentious, but restrained and noble.
Successfully selected natural materials for interior decoration are an unmistakably selected tool for correctly placing accents in the overall design concept: emphasizing the unity of the laconicism and nobility of the black facade of the house and the light and soft interior of the interior.
| Architects | T38 Studio |
| Photo | Fran Parente |
Timeless classic
A classic dark brick house requires a simple masonry method. Dark tones are diluted with light ones – also basic ones. The roofs in such buildings are most often simple gable. There are also more original solutions - use dark brick for the main construction, but make the joints in the masonry white.
The use of contrasting colors will prevent the house from becoming very gloomy, and even vice versa - white joints will give the building visibility, despite the dark base color.
For which areas is it suitable?
As already mentioned, the use of a black facade is an unusual solution, so before use you need to find out which exterior styles this solution is suitable for. So, modern designers suggest paying attention to the following designs:
The garden area should also emphasize the exterior of the building. Today, landscape design also has various styles and directions that interact well with black color. Recently, the Gothic style has been in great demand. Various unusual sculptures located near the house are used for it. It is best to place them around the perimeter of the building, emphasizing the direction of the exterior.
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Classic houses
Is it possible to equip a classic house with a black roof? Will this be appropriate or will it turn out to be a ridiculous mistake? In the understanding of most people, a classic house should have a yellow or red (brick) roof. The facade, in turn, is decorated in beige or brown tones. However, the classics are not limited to just these colors and shades. A very interesting external option would be a house whose façade is painted white. In this case, you can use black roofing material for the roof, which can have both a glossy and matte surface.
A flat black roof will make the house original, exclusive and slightly quirky, but not ridiculous. When using a flat roof, the facade will stand out; in order to properly combine it with the roof, you need to add black accents with separate elements to the facade of the house.
Very often, traditional private houses are structures with an attic room. The roof of such a house will have attic windows, which will enrich the appearance of the house and its design. Using a black roof with a glossy finish can not only make the house more elegant and sophisticated, but also emphasize the originality of the owner of the house, his sense of taste and style.
If black seems too gloomy or inappropriate, then you can use graphite color, which is close to black, but has a more interesting look when roofing a house. In this case, the roof will go well with any facade, regardless of the color of its finish. In some cases, a dark roof will also be combined with wooden houses, but in this case the house should be located in an open area so that the environment does not “squeeze” it.
Kindergarten in the Otrada residential complex
Address:
village Otradnoye, Krasnogorsk district, residential complex "Otrada"
Year of construction:
2016
The kindergarten in Otrada is one of the first Moscow experiments in constructing spaces for children in black. When designing the garden, the architects were faced with an aesthetic problem: adjacent to the edge of the site, the colorful kindergarten ended up being quite close to the monochrome surrounding houses. To smooth out the contrasting juxtaposition, we decided to reveal the border of the territory by means of a dark facade-fence running along the edge of the site, thereby partially covering up the bright colors. The building seems to be hiding behind a dark facade and peeking out from above. There is no black color in the garden; the walls are painted in bright colors. Residential complex "Otrada" is the winner of the Urban Awards 2021 in the category "Residential complex of the year comfort-class MO".
