Colour is often a problematic subject for architects; relegated often to a matter of subjective taste or considered decorative and superficial. This thesis merges colour and architecture through drawing, proposing a hyper-synesthetic environment. Rendered in different chromatic values, tectonic fragments explore sensorial possibilities that draw out both the conscious and subconscious meanings gleaned from a range of habitual and traditional associations. These representations celebrate and inspire the use of colour to visualize sensations and challenging conventions of comfort and taste to which architects have often defaulted.

Chroma is not limited to colour itself that can be only perceived visually but hints at other forms of human sensation and perception. we experience the environment through all of our senses. When you see red, you make connections to the things you are familiar with, apple, etc. Then your mind starts to transfer this object to other related aspects of this apple, like its scent, tastes and possible notations. You perceive the object from one aspect of its characteristics, then as a whole, disassemble the entity into other constituents. Thus Chroma is more like a process when we observing the world from perceiving to conceiving, so do my thesis process.

The city is a complicated term, we train as architects, trying to offer a solution for the city to grow better, more sustainably and more livable. The beauty of the city is not found in the abstract diagramming of planning, but in the nature of its history, and the experience of the culture and people. Even the most chaotic or forgotten places in the world contain beautiful stories. I hope these drawings can give us a chance to look at what we see and what we don’t see; what is open and what is concealed in any particular place. By enveloping the project in colour, I hope in turn that we can seek to embrace colour.