Color+Architecture

The colors that are used in architecture have a purpose beyond the decorative function. For example in this building, called Musac the color windows are the facade and the face of the building. The color is a resource in architecture. The use of color makes it more appealing for the view and it doesnt care if you are far away from the building because when you see one color you will want to see all of them. You going to feel that the building draws you. It has not one color, it has like ten or fifteen color shades or tints. Also the color helps to enrich the interior spaces and the individual experiences.

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Another case where is used the color is the Gilardi´s House of the mexican Luis Barragán. This architect always said that the color was like the daylight because if each element is properly used, they can enrich one space without the need for more things. In this house the use of color is outside and inside of the house. In the first picture we can see like this magic corridor draws you and invite you to explore it and reach to the end, where is waiting us a pink wall, in the middle of the pool and two blue walls on the back. The pink wall is not shown in this picture and this proves that color helps to highlight the emotion and feelings of the person by surprise and exaltation. Also it is importante the color shade that we will use because the combination of color makes a building interesting or not.

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