Examination of the colour selection process within digital design for the Built Environment

Colour selection within built environment visualisation involves the decisive arrangement and application of colour for the principle interpretation and organisation of structural and spatial information. Therefore, appropriate and accurate forms for selecting colours are necessary to ensure that a full communicative visualisation can be generated for information processing. However, it appears that whilst tools and aids are available for active computerised colour selection, this does not aid the visualisation of! built environment colour information. Furthermore, the selection practices of architectural designers do not appear to be structured towards the goal of visualising correct information, relying on an ad hoc criterion. This paper aims to examine colour selection methods for the visualisation of built environment colour information, the tools which are involved with modern colour selection, and assess the selection criteria involved within architectural simulation practice.