The color is necessary in architecture and beyond interior design or that function for the desire to embellish and single out the result or by mark the differences of this one with neighbors from its freshness, capacity for surprise, refinement, originality, etc…. We must understand that color is a variable outstanding building design.
Faced with aesthetic importance (regardless of the times, tastes or trends) The practical function linked to color in architecture derives from a series of factors that we must know before the future building to build .
As an example; To cool or heat the interiors, according to the greater or lesser degree of absorption of solar rays or that symbolic function, linked to the nuances spiritual, intangible, sensitive and even psychological, or give shape where none exists, separate, illuminate spaces…etc.
Ultimately, choosing one color or another will determine the part of the character of our building. The architecture and color must live in harmony to be able to form a visual spectacle, but what is the importance of color in architecture and colors in buildings .
An introduction to color that we think worthy of appearing in the article:
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The color theory and psychology of colors is very extensive and its definition can cover a few articles but as summary we can define it as a sensation that is generated in response to stimulation of the eye and its mechanisms restless, by the light energy of certain lengths wave.
What happens when we perceive an object of a certain color, is that the surface of that object reflects part of the white light phantom that receives and absorbs the rest. The light white is made up of 3 basic colors: red intense, green and violet blue (Document to learn more from HERE):
It must be taken into consideration that color is not a fixed quality of the forms , that is, it can change according to the ambient light, and that through color you can express sensations, ideas and feelings, or even green more or make the public go through one site instead of another such as we will see later.
When we move in space, our habitual conception of considering three dimensions: length, height and depth , i.e. the color transforms:
Document to learn more from HERE Munsell model. Similarly, in the chromatic world, to establish a serious and precise ordering, we start from considering that each color moves or changes according to three directions or qualities specific: value or lightness, hue or color, and saturation or intensity.
If we delve into the meaning of the color , the different colors produce sensations, many of these naturally, and others we have learned culturally and they are not the same for the western countries than for eastern countries.
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Very interesting to combine the concepts with the decoration with paints for interior homes. You learn a lot!
To further clarify and expand the concept of color and understand the psychology of color we propose four infographics that will give us a global vision of color, both its psychology, in interior design or in color theory.
The type of color that we use in our architecture will strongly affect both the way of understand the building, like feeling it.
It has been shown that an environment decorated with cold colors such as blue, indigo, violet and green can lower our temperature and a space with warm colors such as red, orange or yellow, characteristics that increase or decrease with the light, so the light and color in the architecture must be a combination perfect.
The exterior or interior lighting in the buildings will decisively determine the way of understanding the color .
For example, a well-known brand of paints made a experiment on colors to determine if they can influence about the public. They recorded the stairs of a building and the passage of people, later, they painted one of the stairs with a varied range and re-recorded… Guess where do more people go?
We can verify that influence is important, so It can be transferred to other concepts, to streets where we want increase the number of people, to give an example.
From one person to another, the perception of color is different in that it depends entirely on the sensitivity of the eye so we emphasize again that light and color go hand in hand, one cannot live without the other.
There are endless applications and tools to color on the web , but we believe there are some determined and that we must know in order to improve the colorful of our projects and choose from appropriately the color palette of our presentations being also really very practices.
Tools to choose your color palette and color effect:
Another point to take into account in color is the attraction that feel towards them or taste for one color or another depending on whether you are a woman or a man, more colors appreciated or less appreciated colors .
For visual comfort to be produced, there must be a suitable proportion between the color temperature and the lighting .
When a single color dominates a space, our brain “manufactures” the complementary color to achieve a spectrum that is closest to white light (the most complete and balanced since which includes all electromagnetic frequencies).
For this reason, if we remain for a long time observing the same color, we have to place complementary colors next to it to reduce the levels of eye and mental fatigue (Interesting the color applications in small spaces or houses small dimensions).
Clarify the concept of “persistence of simultaneous image or contrast” derived from the color relativity. What is when human beings when moving the sight we unite and influence the colors of a set. Example in the image below:
Traditionally the color in architecture has gathered some characteristics in terms of identification of the property or by take advantage of the mineral of the area that determined a color for reference.
Color interferes with the visual properties of the form:
The color to discover the architecture:
Colour as an intrinsic value (When the designer resorts to it in order to beautify the construction)
Note: All these concepts so interesting you can expand them from a doctoral thesis (Click on TESEO, the PDF takes a while to open) with mention European film by Juan Serra Lluch entitled: «The versatility of color in the composition of contemporary architecture Europe: artistic context, plastic strategies and intentions»
From Oslo and with a lot of love, a house in the forest that stands out for its intense color on the landscape (Jarmund Vigsnæs –Red house).
The goal of applying color red, it is not only as an identification element in some mountains with little visibility before the thickness of the undergrowth and trees, is also to reflect the "temperament of the client”.
We want to show you an app that we think interesting and that on some occasion it can help us. Is an application that captures colors of the world real and adapts them to the color palette of Sherwin-Williams. The app is free from iTunes Apple ( Query from HERE I ).
You can also play more from reality apps increased for decoration. You learn a lot!
To complement the information based on the color in architecture , and given that more and more we like add manuals or guide to be able to delve into the theme of the articles, here we leave you a series of links:
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