Study On University Campus' Colorscape

Color as the most important visual element in architectural art has itsgreat influence on human's psychology and physiology, and also has itspower to build a certain kind of environment and atmosphere.This paper proposes the concept and method of university campus'colorscape, describes the special aspect of studying campus' colorscape,and discusses the importance and urgency of planning and design ofcampus' colorscape. The methodology is also discussed in the paper,including the general police , control types ,specific methods.The author has invested outward color of 12 campus representativebuildings from Tsinghua University and Tianjin University in order toclassify, analyze and compare them according to Munsell color systemwhich defines the different attribute color (hue,value,chroma) and thedistinct color classification (basic color, assorted color, ornamental color).The results show us the difference of basic color of the outwardconstructions between these two schools, but primarily indicate thesimilar patterns which are distributed over hue, value and chroma——The similarity between them is from basic color which adopts high valueand low chroma, and also assorted color and ornamental color whichmainly select warm color that is high and medium value and medium andlow chroma.We distributed questionnairs to teachers and students of Tianjinuniversity in order to further understand how people evaluate and feel thecampus' colorscape, and how colorscape effects on people's psychologyand behavior. During the inquisition and statistics about questionnaire, wealso use some methods of environment-behavior studies, let peopleevaluate the colorscape of two center squares and some buildings inTianjin university.