Colour study for a lunar base

This colour design approach was conceived for first generation lunar base for a multiculture crew planned by the Space Architecture Design Group of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Gary T. Moore. Within the limits of the necessary standardization, it attempts a flexible use of colour, a multistimulus material able to affect the impact of man's new anticipated environment on all three levels of perception, the physical, psychological, and metaphysical. This effect is directed not only toward comfort and productivity, but also toward pleasurability through a sense of belonging. The contribution of colour to space identification and personalization is beyond challenge, more so considering its flexibility. Above all, this approach lays emphasis on the structural, semiotic, and symbolic aspects of colour establishing throughout a constant shift fr-om one to another. Through the creation of interrelated colour schemes and configurations endlessly integrating into bigger ones(detail, subdominant, dominant surfaces and uses) it tries to teach continuous evolvability and regeneration within the individual and the entity in view of two major goals: that men do not forget the glorious multicoloured scheme of life on earth, and that they live up to an overall honesty, environmental sensitivity and cosmic concordance. (C) 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.