Color Coding: Identifying Your Home by Color

Color Coding: Identifying Your Home by Color. A row of twenty terraced houses, identical in architectural form, but the entrance door and the inner side of the door opening of each unit are painted in different colors, gradually changing according to the color wheel from one end to the other—red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple—with high saturation. The door opening is deeply recessed, 600mm deep, so the color is only visible when approaching or viewed from the front; from a distance, the entire row still appears as a uniform off-white volume. Apart from the door opening, the rest of the building has no color. This makes it easy for residents to identify their homes and gives the street a rhythm. Avoid: painting the entire facade in different colors, not making the door opening deeply recessed, random color order, and using low-saturation pastels.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一排二十戶的連棟住宅,建築形式完全一致,但每一戶的入口門與門洞的內側被漆成不同的顏色,從一端到另一端依色相環的順序漸變——紅、橘、黃、綠、青、藍、紫——飽和度高。門洞是深凹的,深度 600mm,所以顏色只有走近或從正面才看得到,從遠處看整排仍然是統一的灰白色量體。除了門洞,建築的其餘部分沒有任何顏色。這讓住戶容易辨認,也讓街道有節奏。避免:整個立面刷成不同顏色、門洞不做深凹、顏色順序隨機、使用低飽和的粉彩。