Colour Usage Regulations For The Cityscape Of Old Mosul City/ Iraq

Abstract

  Old cities around the world have special features, which form the mental image for their users. Architectural and urban elements and the relations that combine them produce this image. Colour is one of the most important elements that give users the mental image of the city. Traditional buildings were built basically by using available natural materials. Before the usage of paints, these materials were the main source of colours on the buildings. Hence, the old city of Mosul/ Iraq had its colour scheme. From the middle of 2014 until its liberation in the last quarter of 2017, Mosul City had faced a crisis of terrorism. The old city had the largest ratio of destruction among the rest of the city, and lose many of its historic structures. As they needed to settle down as soon as possible, refuge people began to return, repair, and rebuild their damaged buildings by spontaneous efforts. However, their actions were not following any historical regulations. Aside from many uncontrolled efforts, painting the repaired building with new (bizarre) pigments, that differed from the original colours, lead to composite a new mental image for the cityscape. This paper aims to explore the impact of facilitating new colours on the cityscape of the old city of Mosul, by studying international cases of using colours in forming cityscape, as well as to suggest regulations for using paint, by extracting the original colours of the traditional urban scene from the related photos.

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26 December 2017

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978-1-80296-950-4

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Future Academy

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2

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1st Edition

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Technology, smart cities, digital construction, industrial revolution 4.0, wellbeing & social resilience, economic resilience, environmental resilience

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Sabah*, O. A., & Jalal, A. W. (2017). Colour Usage Regulations For The Cityscape Of Old Mosul City/ Iraq. In P. A. J. Wahid, P. I. D. A. Aziz Abdul Samad, P. D. S. Sheikh Ahmad, & A. P. D. P. Pujinda (Eds.), Carving The Future Built Environment: Environmental, Economic And Social Resilience, vol 2. European Proceedings of Multidisciplinary Sciences (pp. 681-690). Future Academy. https://doi.org/10.15405/epms.2019.12.68