COLOR THEORY
COLOR + YOU INTRODUCTION
COLOR + CULTURE HAITI
M1 M2
COLOR + DESIGNER BARRAGAN HOUSE AND STUDIO MEXICO CITY LUIS BARRAGAN
COLOR + ENVIRONMENT FILM ANALYSIS
COLOR + EMPHASIS RETAIL ANALYSIS
COLOR + VARIETY HOSPITALITY
COLOR + WORKPLACE ONE WORKPLACE
M4
M6 M8 M9 M10
M.1
I'm JOSEPH GUERRIER
MAJOR MASTERS IN ARCHITECTURE Master Thesis Student
I love Design because is an art that is broadly recognized as an expression of creativity, where imagination and skill are used to create works that portray ideas that are intended to be considered and to be appreciated by everyone, regardless of their background, education or beliefs.
B AC K G R O U N D
I was born and Raised in Haiti I speak French, Creole, English
I lived in Haiti, Dominican Republique I became focused on Design at a Young age, When I realized that architecture was an Art form that could have an impact on its surrounding
TRAVEL
I see traveling as a perfect way to educating myself, stepping out of my comfort zone and learn about places rich of Culture and History.
HOBBIES
Painting
Photography
COLOR
I personally think that every color has its own meaning that can be interpreted either as good or bad, sad or happy etc. My favorite colors are black and Green just because they both match my complexion.
M2
COLOR + CULTURE M2 HAITI JOSEPH JR GUERRIER
HAITI
My CULTURE and country is Haiti Haiti is located in the heart of the Caribbean. It is known as the first Black independent country in the world. Rich with a Variety of colorful dishes, clothes and housing.
White Stands for our purity and innocence.
Yellow represents the Sun and Happiness
Green is for agriculture and the nature around us. Light Blue represents the bleu sky that is above us all and will keep protect us . Blue represents the sea that surround us and it stands for labor/ Work
Red Stands for the blood of our enemies and for those who have died for our independence
HAITI Haiti, in the West Indies, occupies the western third of the island of Hispaniola, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. About the size of Maryland, Haiti is two-thirds mountainous, with the rest of the country marked by great valleys, extensive plateaus, and small plains. Haiti became the world's first blackled republic and the first independent Caribbean state when it threw off French colonial control and slavery in the early 19th century. Beside all the ignorance facts made by medias, Haiti is known for their rich colorful culture, amazing Foods and Beaches to die for. Being the first Black independent Caribbean inspired all the afro-Caribbean countries like Guadeloupe, Martinique, St Lucia etc..
FRANCE I have chosen France because its known has one of the most visited country in the world.
FRANCE
FRANCE The bourgeoisie; The red and blue in the flag represents the city of Paris The color white represents the King; The clergy
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The nobility; The red and blue in the flag represents the city of Paris
France has long provided a geographic, economic, and linguistic bridge joining northern and southern Europe. It is Europe’s most important agricultural producer and one of the world’s leading industrial powers. France's national flag, the blue comes first as it represents the majority. The white is the superior order to either of the other classes, hence it place in the middle. The red represents the nobility, who are the minority. France has lots of land area to provide habitat for a wide variety of plants and animals. More than 25 percent of its territory is covered with forest, and another 50 percent is countryside or farmland. The French government has made a broad commitment to preserving open spaces and the wildlife they contain. In fact, about ten percent of the country has been set aside as national or regional parklands and nature reserves.
COLOR + CULTURE References • • • •
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-19548810 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-19548810 https://www.britannica.com/place/France https://french.lovetoknow.com/What_the_French_Flag_Colors _Represent
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COLOR + DESIGNER M4 BARRAGAN HOUSE AND STUDIO MEXICO CITY LUIS BARRAGAN JOSEPH JR GUERRIER
INTRO
Built in 1947-1948, the Luis Barragán House and Studio located in a working class suburb of Mexico City represents an outstanding example of the architect’s creative work in the postSecond World War period. Barragán created a regional adaptation of the International Modern Movement in architectural design. The concrete building, totaling 1,161 square meters, consists of a ground floor and two upper storeys, as well as a small private garden. The architect’s integration of modern design with traditional Mexican vernacular elements has been greatly influential, especially in the contemporary design of gardens. For example, his use of water and fountains reflects Mediterranean and Islamic traditions, in particular Moroccan.
INTRO
Born in March 9, 1902, Luis Ramiro Barragán Morfín was a Mexican architect and engineer. He studied as an engineer in his home town, while undertaking the entirety of additional coursework to obtain the title of architect .After graduation, he traveled through Spain and France. While in France he became aware of the writings of Ferdinand Bac, a German-French writer, designer and artist who Barragán cited throughout his life. In 1931, he again traveled to France with a long stop-over in New York. In this trip he met Mexican mural painter José Clemente Orozco, architectural magazine editors. In France he briefly met Le Corbusier and finally visited the gardens realized by Ferdinand Bac. He practiced architecture in Guadalajara from, and in Mexico City. His work has influenced contemporary architects visually and conceptually. His buildings are frequently visited by international students and professors of architecture
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. Luis Barragan
COLOR
Inspired by international style apartment buildings and Moroccaninfluenced houses, His use of color is based on the vibrant colors of traditional Mexico that is Pink, Red, Purple, White, Yellow, Orange and brown
EXTERIOR
The facades of the house align with the street and are very plain, with rough cement walls very similar in color and composition of its neighbors. The only distinction is that the walls are much higher. It has only a few small windows and two doors to the outside streets on the southwest side. For this reason the house is not easily visible. Since the facade is plain and flat, there is no way to guess the layout inside. Instead, the house focuses inward, centered on a garden, which itself is surrounded by high walls except on the west. The house has been compared to an oasis with high walls to keep out the “urban chaos.
He limited the quantity and sizes of windows, so that the interior would be cozy and protected. And He used a color palette similar to the interior spaces for the exterior walls
INTERIOR
The qualities of his architecture are expressed in the interior, and also the exterior like the garden space. The interior is designed for the maximum use of natural light as well as free flowing space, using geometric forms. In Most of the interior walls white is throughout the space to create contrast. For example In the library, the walls are painted a flat white, and the color is brought in by the wooden stairs, the pale yellow flooring, and the yellow canvas on the back wall. The furniture remains white, and seems to blend in with the walls. In the studio, the ceiling beams are painted the same pale yellow, and the furniture and flooring assume the same wood stain color. The primary light source is daylight for both.
Barragan's alignment of doors and color is simultaneously playful and modernist. the two pink walls shown seem to be painted the same color pink, but the daylight and task lighting entering the room makes the colors change and appear more monochrome.
To conclude, Luis Barragan was an Engineer and a self taught Architect who was able to master the art of visualization, in my opinion. Being able to connect architecture, the interior spaces and the landscape as one element in his design by using colors inspired by the traditional vibrant colors of Mexico. By using a color palette similar to the interior spaces for the exterior walls give the illusion that everything is unified as one element. His used of natural light and given color Some of the walls create a spatial effect or express the mood of the Design.
http://www.casaluisbarragan.org/eng/en_luisbarragan.html
SOURCES
Tim Street-Porter, Casa Mexicana Stewart, Tabori & Chang (1989) ISBN 1-55670-097-0 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/01/howluis-barragan-became-a-diamond https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1136 https://www.meridian.net/mexico/2016/11/16/13650962/l uis-barragan-mexico-city-home
Architecture of Mexico: The Houses of Luis Barragán From the book “CASA MEXICANA” ©1989 Tim Street-Porter, published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang, New York http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/1938architecture-of-mexico-the-houses-of-luisbarragan
COLOR + ENVIRONMENT FILM ANALYSIS JOSEPH JR GUERRIER
M6
Directed by Zhang Yimou in 2002, the movie Hero is a Chinese film that '' tells and retells one story three times: how an anonymous assassin in ancient China overcomes three rivals. Two of the versions are false, one true. And they seem to come from different worlds: a red one, a blue one and a white one. The story is based on true history in 227 BC that a swordsman Jing Ke prepared for ten years to kill the King of Qin. The story is simple, however Zhang Yimou, the director, utilized color to narrate the story in different angles so that audiences can learn about the story through different characters and their situations. http://newhouseinsider.syr.edu/2017/11/a-look-at-the-color-narrative-in-hero/
COLOR
Black scene is the main story line in the movie. At the beginning of the movie, Nameless accesses into the palace to face the King of Qin. They are communicating, debating and then Nameless starts to kill the King. However, at the close call, Nameless gives up on killing the King and just says, “I am going to kill you only because I can. However, I give up it because of the peace of the world.” In the black world, the palace, the soldiers’ suit of armors, Nameless’s garb and the king’s garb, are all black. Most compositions in the black scene tend to place the main character in the middle of the picture without camera movement. The only change of color was when the long sky got introduced in the fighting scene with nameless. In this scenes the dark colors in some way are showing cold bloodiness and majesty of the empire.
Apart from the fighting scene between nameless and long sky, They are calm down and at peace, just like they are facing a fate. This is a kind of aesthetic from cold-blooded death.
COLOR
The collision and jealousy among Broken Sword, Flying Snow and Moon. Nameless utilizes the power of jealousy to destroy the three swordsmen separately. In the red world, all of characters’ garbs are red and the material of clothes is silk which is soft and lithe. The clothing style combined with smooth camera movement creates a relative inner world which is an abstract and emotional world, rather than a real world. There are a lot of flying shots to describe how they can fight against the hard power in a soft way. Thus, the red world is like wind flaming a fire.
Red in the scene means jealousy which is just like a fire flaming in Broken Sword, Flying Snow and Moon. With the wind around them, the fire becomes stronger and stronger and kills themselves. On the other hand, red is also representative to love, a strong power of love. If there was not any love among the three characters, there would not be jealousy and envy to push them into the worst trouble
COLOR
In the blue world, there are similar silk clothes and soft wind, but the different part is the environment which is a wide space, instead of a narrow corridor. There are mountains and sky. In the wide environment, the camera slowly follows Broken Sword and Flying Snow accessing the huge and wide world with bluish natural lighting. Everything in the scene is peaceful. Blue in the movie means freedom, peaceful love and the two swordsmen’s broad hearts. They are facing their death, but they are feeling peaceful. They are facing love, but know no jealousy. They are willing to give up their lives for another lover. Although blue is a cold color, in this scene blue is representative of the truth of love that the real love should be like an ocean, able to embrace everything.
Blue in the movie means freedom, peaceful love and the two swordsmen’s broad hearts. They are facing their death, but they are feeling peaceful. They are facing love, but know no jealousy. They are willing to give up their lives for another lover.
COLOR
The third truth of Broken Sword and Flying Snow’ death. The four characters are divided into two teams, Broken Sword and his student Moon, Flying Snow and Nameless. Broken Sword wants to interrupt Nameless’ killing the King of Qin. By contrast, Flying Snow wants to help him make the dream come true. In the same library, the director didn’t use obviously personal visual style. By contrast, he chose a neutral method to record the plot just like a gad angle. There is not a lot of slow motion to emphasize their fighting or special angles to draw out the details of characters’ inner world. The only things existing here are purity and neutrality. The reason to protect the King of Qin is pure, the relationship between teacher and student is pure, and the resolve of killing the King of Qin is also pure. All of decisions they made are to give the world a peace and insist the love in their hearts. Everyone has their special reasons, but no one is at fault. In fact, the shift of dynasty is never a mistake, it is just a choice of history.
White in the movie represents the pure world, the turning point of history and the fair. Zhang Yimou uses the most simple color white to draw a picture about unification of countries, the purity of love and a little sadness about death
COLOR
The past period between Broken Sword and Flying Snow, including their love and the reason why Broken Sword decides to give up killing the King of Qin and why Flying Snow insists her initial decision firmly. The mountain is covered with green trees and the river is peaceful like a mirror. The still camera is trying to create a peaceful atmosphere and show the happiness in the couple’s hearts. Being different from other color scenes using extreme lighting such as lantern in red scene, bluish lighting, and reflection from metal and candles in black scene, in the green world there is a lot of sunshine shining on characters’ faces.
Green in the movie means hope, happiness and new lives. In the green world, there are beautiful memories about love and the new cognition about the world, and the King of Qin will still be alive for more hopes and happiness from the general public. http://newhouseinsider.syr.edu/2017/11/a-look-at-the-color-narrative-in-hero/
COLOR + Emphasis RETAIL ANALYSIS JOSEPH JR GUERRIER
M8
Dolce & Gabbana’s newest boutique’s in Tokyo rises in the luxury shopping hub of Aoyama, a state of the art integrated property development which reflects the forward looking soul of Japan. There is also a space with a special design concept that displays the fine jewelry collection which is characterized by a gold carpet and brass ceiling and details. The outside of the store is in Arabescato marble, which also covers the inside of the store windows and inserts in the display cases for small leather goods. The majestic panel in front of the entrance with the Dolce & Gabbana sign is in black carnico marble.
CONTRAST OF HUE
With a minimalistic aesthetic combined with a sophisticated finish, the interior space features black Mable walls, exposed black ceiling, high- contrast lighting and a golden alcove displaying their jewelry line. The contrast of hue is illustrated by selecting colors that are opposite to each other and yet complement each other.
CONTRAST OF TEXTURE
We can appreciate the texture from the elements in and out of the store. The exposed black ceiling add texture with their imperfect pattern , the Mable walls also has texture. The color and texture of the clothes displayed contrast against the interior of the store.
C O N T R A S T O F VA L U E
High-contrast lighting contributes to the carefully choreographed experience. The lighting design creates pools of bright light and areas of intentional shadow to suggest the natural play of light on a sunny day. Walls and plinths are painted with mattblack paint, which was selected as the flat color reflects the light to seem white when hit by the spotlights. The lights frame the products and also parts of the walls and floors, so areas appear and disappear constantly, As you try some shoes, a wall display will suddenly come to life in front of you.
FOCAL POINT
The store has two different focal points, one on the interior and the other on the exterior. On the exterior, the 33-foot-tall windows add a sense of both verticality and awe to the store’s appearance. And , the designer used materials and lighting to showcase products and architectural features, such as a brasspaneled stair. Also the golden alcove on the second floor displaying their jewelries.
C O N T R A S T O F D E S I G N F E AT U R E S
The Black and golden scene created by the interior walls of the store create a contrast with each other, these Elements illustrate contrast of both design feature in form color.
https://www.dezeen.com/2016/09/23/dolce-gabbana-aoyama-store-gwenael-nicolas-curiosity-tokyo-japan/
COLOR + Variety HOSPITALITY JOSEPH JR GUERRIER
M9
One of our Miami Boutique Hotels. Escape to W South Beach, featuring some of the largest guestrooms in South Beach, each boasting its own private balcony and striking ocean views. This beachfront oasis dreamed up by global tastemakers is conveniently located five minutes from Lincoln Road. Take a dip at WET or soak up the sun on the fullservice beach, SAND. Find pure Bliss, get FIT, or play a game at SWISH & SWING, the rooftop basketball and tennis courts. Dine in style at The Dutch or the famed Mr Chow. Revel in the exclusive art collection with original works by Andy Warhol among others on display in the Living Room. The hotel's signature Whatever/Whenever team is available to provide whatever guests want, whenever they want it.
LOBBY
A brown and grey color palette are used in the lobby to create a warm and peaceful space. In certain area the marble walls take over and become the focal point of the lobby. This was a deliberate move toward the interior design of the space in order to bring the guests toward the main counters to register for their staying at the hotel. And the wall pattern or Mesh walls are giving the guests a tropical aspect of Miami. It’s giving a glance of what Miami is like.
RESTAURANT
Keeping with tradition of his other properties in Beverly hills and New York city, the Michael chow-designed restaurant is a design masterpiece with interiors featuring signature screens and black lacquer furniture as well as artwork from Mr. Chow’s renowned private collection. The use of color on the ceiling gives the space a warm and vibrant atmosphere, and the marble at the center of the wall create symmetry and focal point of the room.
EVENT ROOM
Whatever the occasion, the W hotel will create an atmosphere that'll engage your attendees and amplify your celebrations. They'll develop a meeting space that'll inspire and get ideas flowing.
COLOR + Emphasis RETAIL ANALYSIS JOSEPH JR GUERRIER
M10
The One Workplace Headquarters project was a unique opportunity for both One Workplace and for Design Blitz. One Workplace is the largest furniture dealer in Northern California and the single source for Steelcase furniture in the San Francisco Bay Area. The ambitious directive was to re-define the architectural standard not only of the company, but also of the showroom experience itself and create a bleeding edge, world-class workplace that serves both employees and customers alike. One Workplace had already shifted the industry paradigm of sales and showrooms away from a transactional experience to one of collaboration and partnership. This leadership position makes One Workplace a formidable client partner, and the next iteration of their corporate headquarters needed to embody this innovation and progression. No longer a static showroom, the working showroom needed to demonstrate what is possible when great minds come together within the context of a multi-disciplinary design lab.
SHAPES
SHAPES
With a minimalistic aesthetic combined with a sophisticated finish, the interior space features black Mable walls, exposed black ceiling, high- contrast lighting and a golden alcove displaying their jewelry line. The contrast of hue is illustrated by selecting colors that are opposite to each other and yet complement each other.
TEXTURE
The designer played with the texture throughout the spaces by exposing the ceiling to add texture with their imperfect pattern. And painted all the MEP conduits white to make the room more open. the different type of walls also have texture. as we can see in the picture such as the grass wall that is at the entrance of the office. The Columns, the exposed ceiling and some of the floors keep the history of the building. the glass partitions add a sleek look to the space, and also the wood floor at the entrance which bring warmth to the space
COLORS
High-contrast lighting contributes to the carefully choreographed experience. The lighting design creates pools of bright light and areas of intentional shadow to suggest the natural play of light on a sunny day. Walls and plinths are painted with matt-black paint, which was selected as the flat color reflects the light to seem white when hit by the spotlights. The lights frame the products and also parts of the walls and floors, so areas appear and disappear constantly, As you try some shoes, a wall display will suddenly come to life in front of you. . The color and texture of the clothes displayed contrast against the interior of the store
PA T T E R N S
The store has two different focal points, one on the interior and the other on the exterior. On the exterior, the 33foot-tall windows add a sense of both verticality and awe to the store’s appearance. And , the designer used materials and lighting to showcase products and architectural features, such as a brass-paneled stair. Also the golden alcove on the second floor displaying their jewelries.
https://www.archdaily.com/407806/one-workplace-design-blitz/51f59345e8e44e333e000053-one-workplace-design-blitz-photo
Color theory hold within a multitude of definitions, concepts and design applications. it creates a logical structure for color that allow us to organize things around us by color and place them on a circle to shows the relation to each other. This class allowed me to have an understanding of color principles, the theory behind colors and how to apply them in relationship to its surrounding. Analyzing different applications of color and how color relates and varies under different typology. This color theory course gave me knowledge that will definitely apply in the future at different environment, workplace etc. it’s an amazing course that i could see myself taking over and over because we are surrounded by color and the knowledge and understanding behind it is enormous.