URBAN COLOR
color and light
for the urban/human
environment
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Municipal Building
Cervignano d'Adda
(Milano, Italia)
Before and after
a color/paint scheme
to create a harmony
in the urban and natural
environment.
1995
urban color design
by Laura Ruggeri
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client
Arch. Claudio Maglio
Melegnano (Italia)
project
urban color design
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[...] At the request of the major of Cervignano d'Adda I designed a plan for the exterior of the municipal building. The mayor asked me "to animate the square in front of the municipal building by painting the facade of the building itself".
[...] I created a gradient using three bands of color, from the most saturated to the lightest toward the sky and painted a depth illusion on the windows that makes the facade lighter.
I chose three shades of yellow as the colors for this project. Yellow, besides being the historical color of the area(*) is the most alive of the colors and it gives a feeling of lightness and happiness. Yellow is simbolically related to the pleasant warmth of the sun and, like the brightness of the sun, it's stimulating and radiant.
(*) Historically yellow is the most used color in the Po Valley in the north of Italy, because it contrasts with the long gray winters and the heavy fog.- LR
