ARCH1142 - Atlas of Colour 3

Before anything else, I'll upload the work done between last entry and this one. The atlas is done, so they're the final versions unlike the previous blog entry.

the tonal keys - which i actually forgot to print and include in my journal. A fact that I forgot about until I was cleaning out my folder yesterday...

the facemap - despite the wacky names (I was REALLY out of it when I did it), I really like the facemap. It was a lot of fun. The colour is a blogspor thing I think but yeah, its not suppose to look like something in accordance with Corey Worthington's fashion sense.

As a foreword, I didn't particularly get what I was supposed to do with the collage until the last minute. So especially the plan was not particularly detailed. But I have to say, the elevation's pretty much my best work in this atlas. I like the plan too layering the same street over and over has an unexpected effect that is quite good. Once again, the colours aren't supposed to be like that, blogspot is a bit weird. Though maybe it'll look better when its published. Just a note, the orange bits are supposed to be BLUE.

I don't think I'll upload the rest, there's nothing I'm particularly proud or ashamed of and everything afterall, is in the atlas. Also, the colours are not the best so I don't particularly want the rest of my atlas to be forever enshrined on the internet in colours their creator did not intend.

For my atlas, I probably should've put more thought into it than I did. The esquisse definitely should've been better but the main colour components (i.e. above elevation) I thought I did fairly well.

At the conclusion of this workshop, I honestly can't recommend this workshop for anyone who thought BENV1080 a waste of time. Because this workshop, aside from the fact that we actually did learn something about colour theory - something that in the end wasn't included in the atlas, was exactly like BENV1080. Ok, it is marginally more interesting but not by much.

ARCH1142 - Atlas of Colour 2

Here are the two pieces of work I've done so far for this workshop. The colours are not what they should be, but all shall be revealed in the final atlas.


I actually did most of the colour wheel in Paint and then morphed it in Photoshop.

ARCH1142 - Atlas of Colour 1

Before doing this workshop, I never realised how important colour is to architecture. The commonly revered architectural styles are classical, such as the Greco Roman style where white is predominant as the colour of choice inside and out. Where whatever colour there is will be in the interior and is added by the furnishings as opposed to part of the design archtecturally. Of course, at the time paint hasn't been invented and dyed clothing was a symbol of wealth so coloured architecture wasn't all that possible. Though if you study Chinese architecture buildings no matter how old are usually painted in white(painted as oppose to natural white), red, green and yellow. And for the imperial family, purple and gold. However, the colour scheme is less architectural and more cultural, so in all honesty, it can't be labelled a conscious architectural decision. So until the 20th century colour hasn't been a big part of architecture.

Now, with the advent of colour theory, colour has become a larger part of commercial architecture. With red becoming the predominant colour of choice for any fast food place or broken hues and dark blues for banks to denote respectability.

I'd have to do a collage version of the above some time in the next week. Thing is, I'm not too great with well, creating things.