New Chromatic Planning Strategies for Urban Furniture

Abstract

This paper presents a new approach to different typologies of settlements or cities, when creating urban chromatic plans to urban furniture, improving their visibility and readability. The applied methodology may take different steps, depending on whether it is an old settlement, a newly built neighborhood, or an unfinished project whose color plan hasn’t yet been defined. Usually, ancient urban spaces don’t have chromatic plans, being their buildings constructed at different periods, with a large chromatic range. On modern neighborhoods, the buildings are relatively homogeneous, which makes it easier to create an effective chromatic strategy. Considering the construction of a population cluster under development, it is easier to decide the color scheme for its urban furniture, because the choice of colors meets the same criteria of the architecture and may be included in the general project. Therefore, we aim to demonstrate that the elaboration of Urban Furniture Chromatic Plans must take different strategies according to the place specifications.