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Architecture
Introduction
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Articles invited can cover a great many topics, from colour that contrasts with the environment to harmonies of colour that blend in with the ecology. For example, the following images range from a strident colour scheme to one that is strong and imposing, and from the mode rate and elegant to the subdued nuances of hue that might be described as ecological. |
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Strident
A fictitious structure is pictured here, designed to demonstrate how a bright, strident colour such as yellow will stand out well against its surroundings, creating a high-profile aesthetic image that is exciting without being brash, and has a lively almost funfair-like effect. From a distance, the framework of yellow would lose intensity and fuse with the background. |
See:
MOON P and SPENCER DE (1943) A metric for color space. J Opt. Soc. Am. 33 p.260.
HARTRIDGE H (1949) Colours and how we see them. London: Bell. pl.10 p.152. Which explains factors that make colours appear to change, with distance, for example.
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Imposing
This American house with its rich red board exterior, clearly designed to stand out against its neutral green surroundings and indeed does dominate the environment in which it finds itself.
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Colours as Features
Note how the differing shades of green used here appear to accentuate the archritectural features of this somewhat unusual building. |
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Subdued
The gentle nuances of colour of country cottages often have an ecological flavour, with their delicate gradations of earth colours and faded rose - the colores naturales or 'natural colorus' as the classical architect, Vitruvius, called them. |
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