For example, red has the function of warning and stimulation:
Red is often used as a warning color: traffic lights, red means no passage; A red card on the football field means that the player is sent off; Red also represents the highest alert level. Because red is the longest wavelength color in nature, it is more eye-catching than other colors.
Red cloth for bullfighting in Spain. Because red can stimulate the secretion of adrenal hormones and make people feel excited, so that the bullfighting performance can get better sensory effects.
Not only that, red can also stimulate people's sympathetic nerves, make people's gastrointestinal activities active, and thus produce hunger. The decoration of Chinese restaurants abroad is generally based on red tones, not only because red is China's favorite color, but also because it can stimulate and stimulate people's appetite.
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The role of color in architecture;
1, decorative function
The main function of color in urban architecture is decoration. All kinds of urban buildings are decorated with colors, which blend with the ground, plants, sky and other backgrounds to form a colorful urban environment. When wandering around, people will feel colorful scenery and feel happy physically and mentally, and urban buildings are also unique because of their rich colors.
Through color decoration, the building can be well integrated into the surrounding environment, and can also "jump out" from the surrounding environment to fully show its personality.
2. Recognition function
Color plays an important role in distinguishing different buildings and different components of the same building when decorating urban buildings, which increases the identifiability of buildings.
For example, the Marseille apartment designed by le corbusier painted various bright colors on the partition walls between different units. These high saturation primary colors, such as red, yellow and blue, paint each individual residential unit with personalized colors, and at the same time form an obvious marking function, so that residents can easily find their own residential units outside buildings with different colors.
3. Emotional function
The emotional function of color is an abstract meaning given to urban architecture from people's psychology, psychological characteristics and needs.
For example, at present, most residential buildings in cities adopt high brightness, low chroma and warm colors, which can bring people warm, bright, relaxed and pleasant visual and psychological feelings; In order to embody a rational, calm and efficient working atmosphere, office buildings often adopt neutral colors or cool colors, such as white, light blue, light gray, grayish green and so on. Therefore, the emotional function of color comes from its association and symbol.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-architectural color
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Baidu encyclopedia-color implication