Colorful

DETAIL Practice: Colour 

DETAIL Practice "Colour" provides the expertise that every architect working with colour needs, covering colour theory and the laws of colour harmony through the basics of colour perception and colour's effects, and up to strategies for developing consistent colour concepts in the design process. -- ArchDaily

Source: Pedro Mutis Johnson archdaily.com

Los Heroes Building, Santiago, Chile designed by Murtinho y Asociados Arquitectos

To create and transform the old and grey `70s building into a new one expressing character, we use the relationship of leisure – nature as the main architectural concept. The ludic and light expression was the way to conjugate and symbolize this concept-relationship (leisure-nature). The façade skin builds this ludic and light expression, and celebrates the relationship between the institution and its urban context, or in other words, between the building and its “urban nature”. -- ArchDaily

 Source: Scagliola en Brakkee

380 Student Units and Public Space Design, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2008 designed by Architectenbureau Marlies Rohmer

The facade consists of a grid of multicoloured aluminium panels in which the windows are omitted. Seen from a distance, the colours blend into a grey, scaly skin. The closer you come, the more it appears as a colourful honeycomb for the bright young students – our ‘smarties’ – from all over the world.  -- ArchDaily

Source: Marcel van Kerckhoven archdaily.com

Department of Education Hogeschool Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2008 designed by Ector Hoogstad Architecten

The colourful west facade gives the HU a face towards the city, makes the building scale-less and abstract, while also alluding to the speed of the traffic racing past. The facade is an expression of the occupants and their diverse activities, a metaphor for the HU’s multifaceted community. -- ArchDaily

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24 Social Housing,PAU Carabanchel, Madrid, Spain designed by Rafael Cañizares Torquemada & Eduardo Valdillo Ruiz

Source: Stephan Lucas archdaily.com

Sports and Leisure Center, Saint-Cloud, France, 2009 designed by KOZ Architectes

The building uses colour very openly and assertively, with a wide palette ranging from red to green, by way of yellow, pink and orange. These colours cover the façade in wide stripes. Inside, the same colours are systematically repeated, like stepping in an oversized graffti. A colour coding that helps you locate from the outside the areas created on the inside. A means of spatial orientation for young children. An echo to street culture codes for those who crawl on what is dubbed the coolest indoor climbing wall in France,or practice on the pop fencing rows below! -- ArchDaily

Source: Miguel de Guzmán archdaily.com

Housing Building, Carabanchel, Madrid, Spain, 2009 designed by Amann-Canovas-Maruri

The clustering of dwellings is obtained from mechanical necessities. The interior is made with integrated furniture; versatile space with openings available in the wall. The exterior body is constructed of metal, therefore acts as a ventilated façade. The building is an ordered set of car bodies whose metallic colours are the choice for users. -- ArchDaily

Source: Republica DM archdaily.com

Bollullos, Seville, Andalusia, Spain, 2009 designed by Republica DM

The buildings that make up this center are designed based on criteria of passive, solar architecture, intended to achieve maximum energy efficiency both in their form (open but protected to the south and closed to the north, to allow natural ventilation and light ingress), and in their materials (prefabrication to minimize waste), and with the same attention to the building process as to the subsequent maintenance. -- ArchDaily

Source: RE-ACT Now Studio archdaily.com

Spectrum Residential Ensemble, Constanta, Romania, 2009 designed by Re-Act Now

The «spectral crystallization» of the facades looking onto the sea ends the story about the things above, make everything appear unreal, hallucinating, filtered, illusive… It is a mental-visual trance that you welcome and which remains in your mind, in your senses, in the conscious and subconscious. -- ArchDaily

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Upper Secondary School, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007 designed by 3xn Arkitekter

The operable exterior shading devices--colored glass fins with graphic lettering--create this building's signature facade and provide dynamic shading to balance daylighting with solar heat gain. Behind the glass fins, operable windows provide natural ventilation. -- betterbricks.com

Source: Yoshihisa Araki archdaily.com

Harvest Medical College, Hyogo, Japan designed by Shogo Iwata

Its design theme is “reflection of various color ”. The building uses six primary colors in interior, exterior, furniture and signs. The composition of these colors reflects embracing diversity that we regard as the primal concept of medical and welfare. The frontal facade consists of the composition of primal colors. The checker board patterned steel porous folded plates layered in front of it make the facade rich and ephemeral. -- ArchDaily

Source: Tord-Rikard Soderstrom archdaily.com

Kuggen, Lindholmsplatsen, Göteborg, Sweden, 2011 designed by Wingårdh Arkitektkontor

Finally, its brocade of glazed terracotta panels takes on different appearances depending on our viewing angle and the changing daylight conditions. The red colors refer to the industrial paint that was closely associated to the wharfs and the harbor. Here and there they meet a contrasting green patch, as in an autumn leaf. These details change the building’s character from one side to another, and over the course of the day. -- ArchDaily

Source: Elenberg Fraser archdaily.com

A’Beckett Tower, Melbourne, Australia, 2011 designed by Elenberg Fraser

With 347 louvres in 16 different colors, you could be forgiven for thinking Elenberg Fraser was engaging with the local architectural context with their new building for Pan Urban, A’Beckett Tower. Au contraire, they are exploring the sensory effects of color, rather than symbolic representation, by testing Goethe’s Theory of Colors. -- ArchDaily

Source: Studio Olafur Eliasson archdaily.com

Your Rainbow Panorama, Aros Allé 2, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark, 2011 designed by Studio Olafur Eliasson

The circle of Your rainbow panorama complements the museum’s square plan exactly. These basic geometric forms challenge each other in a friendly dialogue about spatial dimensions, movement, and the passing of time. The continuous curve limits your view to about twenty meters ahead, revealing one colour shade after the other. The intimacy created by this short distance is reflected back on the moving bodies.  -- ArchDaily

Source: Ronan Lacroix archdaily.com

Rebière 21 housing, Paris, France, 2012 designed by Hondelatte Laporte Architectes

Detached from the building, three elegant columns of covered flower-shaped terraces spiral upwards. Each housing unit has its own remarkable terrace, designed as an “extra room” with specific qualities: it is an independent, hybrid space somewhere between the exterior and the interior, and its specific colour gives each flat its own atmosphere. -- ArchDaily

Source: Roger Frei archdaily.com

Affoltern Housing Development, Wehntalerstrasse, CH-8046 Zurich, Switzerland, 2012 designed by EM2N

The positions of the large projecting balconies (which also have recessed areas) are staggered from floor to floor and thus sculpture the volume of the building. Together with the coloured parapets and metallic bands of windows they help structure the buildings and shape the character of the development. -- ArchDaily

Source: Burton Hamfelt Architectuur archdaily.com

MBO College North, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2012 designed by Burton Hamfelt Architectuur

Designed as a series of five interchangeable separate buildings, the colorful and parceled facade is primarily related by the functional distribution of the building and at the same time intended as an eye-catcher for the whole area. -- ArchDaily

Source: Toshihisa Iishi archdaily.com

Enviromental Building, Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, 2012 designed by Henri Gueydan

Close to Nagoya, this environmental building for rental and shops, complements an older type of housing, now fully renovated and colorful. In this rather dreary suburb, the idea is to break with the existing view as if the start making of a new urbanity.   -- ArchDaily

Source: Alberto Ruiz López & María Giménez Molina archdaily.com

Renovation of the Saint Exupéry School, Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain, 2013 designed by Argola Arquitectos + Flint Archicture

Architectural integration is achieved through the use of brick facades, present both in the existing building and in the common services new construction.

This structure, supports a lighter construction made of colored glass walls, which aligns with the geometry of the existing building. -- ArchDaily

Source: RCR Arquitectes archdaily.com

“Els Colors” Nursery, Manlleu, Barcelona, Spain designed by RCR Arquitectes

Ease in composition comes from the equal size of the parts, and the identification of each of them in the entire assembly comes from their color. Glazed facade with laminated glass and opaque aluminum doors to patios. Lattice elements with metal plate structure and colored glass (red, orange and yellow) 2/3 acid-tinged and 1/3 transparent. -- ArchDaily

Source: Pieter Lozie archdaily.com

A Colorful Demolition: The Abandoned Interiors of Ghent’s Rabot Towers Revealed, Ghent, Belgium

With the removal of the facade panels we get to see behind the building’s public face, revealing the many living room interiors, where the bright walls are framed by the tight rhythm of the window frames, almost like an abstract artwork. -- ArchDaily

Source: Cecilie Bannow archdaily.com

Grønneviksøren Student Apartments, Bergen, Norway, 2013 designed by 3RW Arkitekter

By using different window sizes and different façade panels and colors, it breaks up the monotony of a modular building system and gives it a lively layer. The result is far from what one might expect from a modular project of this size. Working both with and against the module principal has been crucial to eliminate the risk of creating monotone and characterless architecture. -- ArchDaily

Source: KSR Architects archdaily.com

Colorful Pop-Up Pavilion Forms the Centerpiece for Camden Create Festival, London borough of Camden designed by KSR Architects

As part of a new three-day festival in the London borough of Camden, KSR Architects have designed a brightly colored pop-up pavilion for the famous Britannia Junction. The festival’s centerpiece is made up of 640 fluorescent tubes hanging from a stage truss system to make a colossal wind chime, animating the area with movement, color and sound. -- ArchDaily

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OMA to Research the Link Between Color and Economic Development

Paint company AkzoNobel has announced plans to fund a global research project by OMA which will investigate the link between color and economic development. The project is part of AkzoNobel’s wider ‘Human Cities’ initiative, which they say “highlights our commitment to improving, energizing and regenerating urban communities across the world.” -- ArchDaily

Source: a21 studio archdaily.com

The Chapel, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2014 designed by a21 studio

The multi-layer colorful curtains are orderly arranged and placed in the opens to add more colors to the entire space as well as soften the coldness of the metal frames. -- ArchDaily

Source: Jesús Granada archdaily.com

12 dwellings in Jaen, Calle Llana de San Juan, 41, 23004 Jaén, Jaén, Spain, 2014 designed by bRijUNi Architects

....the colorful facade, challenging the monotonous and constructive regulations, and the existing rich chromatic diversity in the surroundings, to become the protagonist of such a unified but not individualized project.... -- ArchDaily