Polychromy in architecture, both ancient and modern, is a component that characterizes buildings since ancient times. The discovery made by Hittorf in 1824 of traces of painting on Greek temples demonstrates how the practice of enriching architectural works with coloring was lost over time.

Color therefore represents an important element of our built environment. To discuss it as part of a project to enhance the historic center means to engage in a topic in which subjectivity and objectivity are mixed in an insoluble way. However, it is important to consider and design color as a significant element of the urban environment to give back to the city a component of which it has often been expropriated due to fear of difficulties, laziness or lack of imagination.

The Municipal Administration of San Maurizio d'Opaglio, aware of this importance, has entrusted the task to the BIANCHETTIARCHITETTURA studio to draw up a new Color Coordination Plan for the historic centers of San Maurizio, Niverate, Briallo, Alpiolo Bonetto, Baritto, Opagliolo , Sazza, Lagna, Pascolo and the entire lakeside area subject to landscape-environmental constraints.