{"id":2765,"date":"2015-12-17T10:05:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T10:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2015\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2015-12-17T10:08:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T10:08:23","slug":"colour-progression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2015\/2015\/12\/17\/colour-progression\/","title":{"rendered":"Colour Progression"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n This thesis explores how colours create an impact on space in relation to light intensity, texture and combination. It aims to include the method of colour progression as an intrinsic part of designing space in order to articulate architectonic features together with light and materials, highlighting the sensory experience and enhancing identity to the surroundings. Such method would be experimented through redesigning an urban church in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n WHY?<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n HISTORY Under the influence of De Stijl movement, Gerrit Rietveld used the contrast in primary colours from the paintings of Piet Mondrian on the design of Schroder House. He blurred the boundary of interior and exterior by letting the lines and intersecting planes extend outwards with the identical coloured surfaces. Similarly, in the Counter-construction project by Theo van Doesburg, he applied polychromy to the exterior walls to create spatial dissolution with coloured floating planes. THESIS PURPOSE <\/p>\n WHAT?<\/p>\n
\nColours in architecture has the ability to alter volume, to hold a surface or to recede space. Andrea Pozzo used the technique of quadrature which was emerging painting with St. Ignazio Church to create a three dimensional effect as if there is an extension of the church roof towards heaven.<\/p>\n
\nThrough Maison Guiette, Le Corbusier criticized the approach of polychromy on exterior and believed that exterior should stay monochrome as it is considered as an envelope or a volume; whereas interior is polychrome. In his post-war buildings, Claude and Duval Factory and La Tourette, he treated colour as a final touch for spatial expression. He located bold colours in almost every interior element especially around apertures in relation to light. His works show the independency of colour and form. I would like to explore other ways of spatial expression such as the progression in colour intensity and how the gradient could highlight or recede space.
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\nThe idea of colour also expanded in works of Barragan who focused on the composition of colours by locating vibrant colours on planar surfaces, whereas Jean Nouvel revealed colours volumetrically through the properties of building materials. The Torre Agbar has a multi-colored facade that changes colours with the intensity of sunlight. Nouvel also created complex layers of colours and light with the reflectivity of materials from the Lycee Duhoda in Nimes.<\/p>\n
\nRather than treating colour as an autonomous subject from form or space, this thesis will look at how the approach of colour progression creates depth in space or breaks the unity of volume with the support of light and shadow, textures and combination.<\/p>\n