Quem tem medo das cores? Confluências entre cor e arquitectura

Abstract

Nowadays, it is common for contemporary architects to use "white", an achromatic choice as a solution for both the exterior and interior of spaces. The Modern Movement, in architecture, adopted white, perhaps out of sobriety or simple formal purity4. White presents the highest value of light and clarity, an essential aspect in architecture and space, with the particularity of varying its tones according to the time of day and the intensity of light that falls at the moment: it is "the emblem of perpetual movement" according to Rem Koolhaas5. But isn't it the same with all the other colours, primary and secondary, and aren't these phenomena what make space a unique experience? Colour does not exist without light and the various shades emerge with the contribution of light. But what is the justification for discarding colour in architecture? Couldn't colour be "the flavour of architecture"6? Colour brings another life and another way of feeling the space and the works, so we believe it is necessary to understand the confluence that exists to make colour a more current reality, not forgetting its use by some exceptional architects. In general, architects seem to show "fear" for escaping from the rule, for risking something exceptional: colour ends up being a composition that "represents nothing", but which expressively intensifies, giving forms their own expression by disseminating a desire, several senses and sensations. There are several questions related to colour and its experience in everyday life, in public space or in buildings, which we can ask, and it is these, among others, which we intend to answer as a possible conclusion in the development of this dissertation. After all, what is the role of colour? The function of colours?