COMPARISON OF COLOR ELEMENT IN HISTORIC TOWNSCAPE

Abstract

While cities are developing, the old city sceneries become modernized in different ways with no particular direction and start to lose their unique identities and cultures. After the Office of National Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning declared areas in Nan and Phayao as old towns in 2006 and 2016, respectively, it is important to collect data and establish the regulations to preserve the old town.

The objectives of this thesis are to study and analyze the color elements between the old town in Nan and Phayao. From the fieldworks, 261 color sample data were collected using ‘Natural Color System’ and organized by the building types and elements. The data of each individual old town elements were analyzed and compared through statistics technique. As the matter of fact, the two old towns are not very far from each other, the results obviously show that the unique colors and architectural characteristics perform differently.