A room is suspended in midair, furnished with period doors, windows, wooden panels and a radiator in one corner. While perfectly enterable, it s not a solidly rendered space; rather, it s a spectral cast of the architecture - or, as Swiss artist Heidi Bucher (1926-93) put it, the “skin” of it.
As some people rave about how “doing their colours” has changed their lives for the better, others especially darker-skinned and racialized people have found that these traditional colour analysis methods just don’t work for them. Now, some are taking it upon themselves to adapt what has not always been a very inclusive system.
Presenting their functional and aesthetic possibilities, we explore a selection of facade designs that use color in unique, inspiring and creative ways.