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Colour In Hackney

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Colour In Hackney

A design guide to instruct the phased implementation of a new colour palette across Hackney housing estates – using a range of colour palettes to complement the different architectural characters across the borough.

Client
London Borough of Hackney
Location
Size
- m2
Project dates
Design Code: September 2015 – January 2016 Roll-out Commenced: March 2016
Services provided
Architectural Design Code
Design team

  • Hackney Homes (Consultation Collaborator)

  • Mulalley & Co (Implementation Contractor)

Project type
Feasibility & StrategyPublication & Research
Use type

Studio Weave were commissioned to develop The ‘Hackney Colour Design Code’ as a manual to instruct the phased implementation of a new colour palette across Hackney housing estates. The guide was subsequently addended with a complementary ‘Hackney Signage Design Code’, also by Studio Weave.

The colour palette for each estate is deduced as a unique response to its age, composition and typology – using a systematised logic based on harmonious colour balance. Each estate colour scheme comprises between three and five colours applied to all paintable elements. Development of the logic and palette involved auditing the typical elements and materials found across all estates and classifying them by type. A hierarchy was established to specify: background colours, complement colours and highlight colours.

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