12 colour propositions for urban planning - Kleur Buiten Prijs

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20 T W E L V E C O L O U R P R O P O S I T I O N S PROPOSITION 9 For covered and other public areas colours must be chosen which will create warm lighting when combined with the colour of the incidence of natural and artificial light. LEFT: IN COVERED AREAS SUCH AS HERE IN BRUSSELS NOT ONLY THE SHAPES OF THE WALLS, ROOFS AND FLOORS DEMAND A BALANCED COMPOSITION, BUT LIGHT AND COLOUR SHOULD ALSO BE INTEGRATED. RIGHT: COLOUR DIAGRAM: THE HATCHED TRIANGLE REPRESENTS THAT PART OF THE SPECTRUM WHICH IS PERCEIVED TO BE WARM. Urban lightning
T W E L V E C O L O U R P R O P O S I T I O N S PROPOSITION 9 LEFT AND RIGHT ABOVE: IN THE UNDERPASS OF THE NAI ARCHIVES IN ROTTERDAM THE ARTIST P. STRUIJCKEN CREATED A METAMORPHOSIS WHEREBY ENDLESS COLOUR SHIFTS OCCUR THROUGH THE USE OF LIGHT. LEFT AND RIGHT BELOW: 'MOOD WALL' IN THE UNDERPASS OF AMSTERDAMSE POORT, REAL ISED BY THE URBAN ALLIANCE COLLECTIVE. BOTH ARE AN EXAMPLE OF HOW A DARK COVERED SPACE CAN BE TRANSFORMED INTO AN ATTRACTIVE SPACE. Urban lighting For covered and other public areas colours must be chosen which will create warm lighting when combined with the colour of the incidence of natural and artificial light. COMMENTARY There are warm colours and cold colours, respectively red, orange, yellow (warm) and blue, green and grey (cold). However, it is by no means a rule that a space must be coloured red, orange or yellow in order to evoke a pleasant atmosphere. A green lawn under a blue sky does not have to be disagreeable at all. It is not the colour of a surface that determines whether a space is perceived to be cold or warm, but the colour of the light. The colour of the light in a space is depend -ent on the colour of the light source and of all the reflections of that light in the space. Dark façades with grey pavements and black asphalt feel gloomy, particularly on dark days and at night, because often no reflection is possible. In a colour diagram we can indicate exactly with in which area of the diagram the wavelengths of the resulting light must fall in order to be perceived as warm. RECOMMENDATION Facade lighting can form an atmospheric addition to covered public areas, shopping centres, passageways, walkways, viaducts, streets and footpaths. In the context of urban planning a targeted light direction is of great importance. 21
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