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This area of research is important for architects and designers to address with real-world solutions as architects are responsible for shaping the built environment around which society navigates its daily life. With their exceptional and influential part of the society, it is the architect’s concern to respond to the rising worries of mental health and wellbeing in cities. If colours are able to affect people’s mood in daily life, then it is important to consider when choosing colour for a building depending on its purposes. Architecture and colour should live in harmony in order to create a common visual space and colour is not only important aesthetically, but also has a great psycho-sensory importance. Colour to improve mood. Colour interacts with form. Colour is an essential component in threedimensional grouping and is a major influence on the perception of space. Hue, brightness and saturation are typically defined in the colour’s dimensions. These three dimensions related to the evaluations of distance, features of devotion or localisation, drawing by contrasts, of shapes and areas. In creating a psychological mood and ambience, it is so important that the impression of colour can deliver the messages. Despite its presence and its variations, colour is present in all places. These characteristics of colours are potential, not yet fully utilized by architects. This is because, colour can be expressive, as well as conceal formal elements, it can render support or counterpoint to architectonic features. The use of colours to contrast areas or emphasize building masses can enhance or clarify their orientation and differentiate the part from the whole. In architecture, appropriate colour specification is its role in keeping visual efficiency and comfort. We are stimulated by the moods created by certain works of art, as well as by their great qualities. Naturally, we would feel different when inhabiting a space than we first primarily vision a space as it is either through a painting or and installation. We are able to touch, feel, smell and hear all the time in carrying out the routines and rituals of everyday life. Generally, it would be merely background to one’s everyday life that they will experience in. “Colours are never experienced individually, but always in context.” (Albers, 2015) When this context is spatial, colour perceived in space behaves as space; vividly visual and nearly tangible.
