Colors on the Exterior Walls of the Buildings of the Apartment Complex at Vastra Flemingsberg, Huddinge, Sweden

Abstract

One author Hans Matell, an architect, describes briefly the buildings and their layout in a large Swedish apartment building complex. Photographs of the site are presented. The second author Gert Marcus, an artist, presents in some detail his task of selecting colors for the exterior walls and he explains his basis for making the selection and the composition. He comments on current attitudes toward colored exteriors of present-day buildings, in particular, and toward visual aspects of exteriors in architecture and in city planning, in general. He concludes by drawing attention to his unusual use of colors in recent sculptures, treating a theme that he calls ‘Disjunctions’. The theme could be applied on a large scale in architecture, for example in architecture of building complexes.