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How do you use color to “move” your occupant? Do you go beyond merely using it as a wayfinding technique? Or do you “paint” your three-dimensional space to lead your occupant on a journey that enhances the spirit of place?
As you will find within the following slideshow, color can be used within architecture in soul-stirring and innovative ways. Color not only engages a building occupant by making real the beauty of function, but also invites them “in” to truly “touch” a space — perhaps at first with their eyes, but then with all of their senses as color becomes much more when it meets the eye.
So, how do you use color to “move” your building occupants?
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- By color coding ducts to reveal a building’s climate, electrical, plumbing and circulation arteries.
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- By filtering and layering light to bring spirit to a place.
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- By bringing unity and community to individual living spaces.
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- By bringing “life” to meaningful memories.
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- By allowing their eyes to “touch” a surface in ways their other senses cannot.
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- By revealing the beauty of fluidity and rhythm.
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- By mathematically coding the meeting of music, sculpture and a culture’s differing demographics.
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Light has many faces, and many forms. As an architect, you can “paint” with light, “sculpt” with light and guide your occupant to “touch” it.
The following slideshow takes a look at how light can “set off” built form, and how built form can “set off” light. When the two fuse poetically, they can showcase your materials, an experiential path or even “warm” an otherwise “cold” space.
So, the real question becomes…
WHY Do You Inject Light into Your Building Designs?
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- To bring “lift” to your building form.
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- To capture a breathtaking vista.
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- To mark the time of day.
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- To cast texture and rhythm.
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- To shelter through purity of form.
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- To touch the heavens.
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- To build an “invisible” connection.
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- To filter a kaleidoscope of colors.
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- To bring celebration to the world.
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Name: Color, Environment & Human Response by Frank H. Mahnke
URL: Color, Environment, & Human Response
Purpose: to explain the physiological and psychological effects of color in architectural environments
THIS BOOK WILL LAST A LONG, LONG TIME
Color, Environment & Human Response is filled with seventeen chapters of detailed insight about how color really impacts occupants within architectural designs. The author, Frank H. Mahnke explains color and its various complex dimensions, from neuropsychological aspects to human emotion and beyond.
I particularly like the following excerpt from this book where Mahnke explains some fundamentals about the relationship between color design and human reaction: Read more
