The Color Plan for Verbania: materials and surfaces for the recovery of the historic city

The recovery of the historic building color poses several types of problems and skills. A first aspect is to establish what the original colors of the place are, another is to establish clear guidelines to achieve the objectives which have been set, and then, define the "color table". Obviously, the study does not only invest the color of the façades, but analyzes all the elements which characterize it. Coloring the city means, therefore, recover a lost identity and, at the same time, give it a new one capable of expressing a collective order.