Urban Furniture Chromatic Planning as An Inclusive Factor for Urban Spaces

Portuguese Colour Association, Lisbon, Portugal

Abstract: This paper aims to demonstrate how a coherent chromatic plan applied to urban furniture may contribute to improve the space within cities, as the different city’s areas become different one from each other and, simultaneously, the urban furniture elements are converted into ergonomic factors, standing out from their background and contributing to improve the population inclusivity. In order to achieve this purpose, and because the existent methodologies weren’t adequate to reach the aimed objectives, it was decided to develop a new methodology that would allow the determination of colour plans, with a higher scientific approach, as a strategy for the enlargement of urban chromatic plans perspective. The research focus has been the city of Lisbon, where the new methodology was applied to three of its neighbourhoods, which constituted the case studies, and the research and its results were tested and validated by three focus groups that included people with different ages and genders, Municipality authorities and Colour Experts.