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Color in the urban environment: A user‐oriented protocol for chromatic characterization and the development of a parametric typology
Author(s) -
Nguyen Luan,
Teller Jacques
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
color research and application
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.393
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1520-6378
pISSN - 0361-2317
DOI - 10.1002/col.22022
Subject(s) - palette (painting) , protocol (science) , chromatic scale , computer science , homogeneous , characterization (materials science) , typology , class (philosophy) , architectural engineering , geography , artificial intelligence , engineering , mathematics , archaeology , optics , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , combinatorics , operating system , physics
This article presents a user‐oriented protocol that can be used to characterize chromatic attributes of an urban area. A need for both affordable and reliable assessment method of color has been observed in the field of urban design. The challenge is to provide statistical answers to these two questions: how is color organized, how does it develop its own structure in the city? The main purpose of the research is hence to investigate mean color types within the city via the implementation of a characterization tool; an urban area of the four main classes (historic center, periurban housing districts, working‐class neighborhoods, and commercial zones) being characterized by a specific color palette, or a layout of specific color types. The developed instrumentation allows the assessment of the homogeneous and consistent features of an urban district. Their characterization protocol was tested through an application to several streets of the city of Liège (Belgium). © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Col Res Appl, 42, 131–142, 2017