The Color Plan guidelines and recommendations is composed by three chapters: the “Color palette”, the “Code of architecture, materials and colors”, and the “Repository of Façade Decoration, Techniques and Materials”. The “Palette” includes a selection of colors and nuances considered suitable for plaster surfaces as well as iron and wooden elements. The “Code of architecture, materials, and colors” refers to the main homogeneous categories of morphological, compositional, and technological elements, as well as to plants and fittings. The “Repository of façade decoration, techniques, and materials” instead offers a range of solutions often recurring in the historical center, all of them based on the lexicon of traditional architecture.
Published in Chapter:
The Image of Historic Urban Landscapes: Representation Codes
Copyright: © 2015
|Pages: 29
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8379-2.ch019
Abstract
According to the UNESCO 2011 - Recommendations on the Historic Urban Landscapes, the historic urban landscape (HUL) is the urban area understood as the result of a historic layering of cultural and natural values and attributes, extending the “historic center” concept to include the broader urban context and its geographical setting. Representation of historical environments, documenting their typological components as a pattern book (landscape, architecture, textures, materials, and color), is devised to encourage a strategy of valorization. Explanation of landscapes' values through its benchmarking, consists of several mapping actions and adoption of tools: 3D modelling, environmental mapping, places representation. The chapter presents a strategic process based on local character assessment through a place-visualizing toolkit from documentation and color representation to design coding: visualization of landscape' values and multimedia survey pipelines implementing processes, methods and tools for the narration of tangible values and intangible assets.