COLOURS IN ROOMS, AN EXPERIENCE
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Every room has its own reason for accepting or rejecting a colour.
This is reason enough for us to have a room experience. Experience has proved to us that some of the colours we have chosen, seldom work the way we wanted, but we seldom admit it to our self.
We mostly work with surface colours to create the mood of a space. But, room experience not only involves colour, but all the elements contained in its ensemble.
We are not always aware of the fact that the architectural environment influences the human psyche beyond aesthetical impressions. No wonder it is wrongly assumed that as long as an architectural space is aesthetical pleasing, it satisfies the needs and function of the environment. Resulting in, the choosing of colours is done to compliment the environment, and the influence of the colour on the inhabitants is ignored.
Colour experience, what does it actually means?
To perceive colour, means to experience, to become consciously aware of.
The process of colour experience is not only depended on a combination of 3 factors, namely a LIGHT stimulus, an OBSERVER and an OBJECT/SURFACE, but colour is also part of the conscious, subconscious, and an experience that has to do with the human behavior.
Where does our colour experience originate?
Every room has its own reason for accepting or rejecting a colour.
This is reason enough for us to have a room experience. Experience has proved to us that some of the colours we have chosen, seldom work the way we wanted, but we seldom admit it to our self.
We mostly work with surface colours to create the mood of a space. But, room experience not only involves colour, but all the elements contained in its ensemble.
We are not always aware of the fact that the architectural environment influences the human psyche beyond aesthetical impressions. No wonder it is wrongly assumed that as long as an architectural space is aesthetical pleasing, it satisfies the needs and function of the environment. Resulting in, the choosing of colours is done to compliment the environment, and the influence of the colour on the inhabitants is ignored.
Colour experience, what does it actually means?
To perceive colour, means to experience, to become consciously aware of.
The process of colour experience is not only depended on a combination of 3 factors, namely a LIGHT stimulus, an OBSERVER and an OBJECT/SURFACE, but colour is also part of the conscious, subconscious, and an experience that has to do with the human behavior.
Where does our colour experience originate?
Colour experience influencing the colour we see.
1 BIOLOGICAL REACTION TO COLOUR STIMULUS.
Biological reaction, are those reactions that are beyond our control since they are in the physiolocical realm that remains, the scope of how we, as individuals think or feel about colour, or a group of colours.
2 COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS/unawareness.
It is part of our psyche, that has nothing to do with the conscious or unconscious reaction that are based on personal experience we have collected in our lifetime. In other words, it is a reservoir of latent images, called primordial images, meaning "first" or "original", it refers to the earliest development of the psyche.
It is important to realize that we don't start our lives as an empty page. From the beginning of our lives we carry with us the inherited memories of mankind's entire experience.
3 CONSCIOUS SYMBOLISM-ASSOCIATIONS/awareness.
The symbolism of colour is important in the human life. It is significant in religion, medicine, healing, mythology, art and even ceremonies of birth, marriage and death.
4 CULTURAL INFLUENCES AND MANNERISM.
Colour associations, symbolism, impressions, and mannerism that are characteristic of specific groups and cultures.
5 INFLUENCES OF TREND, COLOUR FORECAST, FASHION & STYLE.
The commercial attachment of yearly colours to a predicted lifestyle/influence.
6 PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP.
Our personal relationship to colour expresses our likes, indifferences or dislikes of certain hues.
We must always bear in mind, you don't choose a colour because you like it, you must remember you have to live with it.
CHOOSING OF COLOURS, NOT A SIMPLE PROCESS IF YOU REALY WANT COLOUR TO WORK FOR YOU.
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