The multi-year color consulting mission entrusted to us focuses on enhancing the exterior treatment of buildings — improving their visual quality, coherence across structures, integration into the site, and long-term durability of the work carried out.
This mission covers over 200 operations per year, including development zones (ZACs), and involves social housing providers, private developers, municipalities, and other stakeholders.

• visiting pilot sites throughout France
• conducting interviews with partners
• preparing and leading 3 co-construction workshops to handle all issues related to managing reception areas and maintaining an attentive relationship with the client
• design concept proposal: layout of reception areas, client advisor offices, children’s areas. Design of some furniture, recommendations for colors and materials, signs, creation of a “little museum” in the space, etc.
• trials at a selection of pilot sites
• design charter for reception areas
• case-by-case support: drafting, detailed pre-project, company consultations, 3D renderings
• supplement for COVID sanitary measures.

The new color palette is intended for all stakeholders involved in renovation or construction projects — including building contractors, architects, urban planners, property owners, building managers, and shopkeepers.
It is presented through seven guides, each corresponding to a specific architectural typology representative of major periods in the city’s urban development.

Since every façade is unique, each guide outlines the defining features of the façades, offers period-specific recommendations, and explains how to select materials and combine colors in ways that preserve and enhance architectural character while ensuring integration with the surrounding environment.

Nacarat Color Design’s Missions:

• Preliminary diagnostic and development of new palettes by building typology
• Creation of a set of tools for the urban planning department, professionals, and local residents
• Graphic design of the guides, fan decks, and educational display panels for the SDAP (Department of Architecture and Heritage)
• Training of urban planning officers

 

Link to the Color and material guides for facades of the city of Toulouse.

Today, this combination of insulation and lacquered aluminum better serves the many expressions of architecture, preserving local identities in cities, villages and nature with the strength of color.

Our jobs:

• Update the color line: select 24 regional colors, divided into large families, draw up a new marketing concept
• Create a brochure and box to help consultants present the collection, design the tools and graphic model, research images and writing
• Collection launch events: scenography – layout – Graphic design of the Architect@work corner
• Running the launch party

Nos missions :

• Étude de l’existant, des attentes et des contraintes, prise en compte des premières idées d’aménagement proposées par les équipes d’Eau du Grand Lyon pour l’espace futur et enrichissement.
• Propositions de parcours client (2 à 3 parcours). Ils proposent différentes articulations des fonctions de l’espace : accueil, attente, pédagogie/showroom, numérique, conseil, bureau, co-working, convivialité…
• Propositions d’ambiances et choix des revêtements de sols, murs, plafond le cas échéant et des coloris et finitions associées.
• Focus sur les solutions d’aménagement relevant de la sécurité et de la confidentialité.
• Préparation et animation d’un atelier de co-construction de 4h permettant de faire in situ les arbitrages qui s’imposaient quant au choix du parcours client, de l’ambiance, de la sécurité et de la confidentialité.

Suite à l’atelier de co-construction :

• Design final du scénario d’aménagement permettant de servir le concept de relation attentionnée.
• Prescriptions pour le choix du mobilier.
• Prescription pour l’animation de façade (enseigne, marquages, symboles et autres éléments de communication).
• Étude et recommandations quant aux supports de communication print et numériques à mettre en place.
• Prescription pour les éclairages.
• Synthèse et élaboration de l’avant-projet détaillé sur la base des choix réalisés lors de l’atelier (plans et simulations 3D).

Nacarat conducted color and material studies for facades and interiors (entrances and common areas). We worked on more than 40 buildings to improve quality of life for residents and the buildings’ integration into the environment.

Étude des tendances et des couleurs et finitions locales mais aussi contemporaines et design.

De nouvelles finitions qui dévoilent l’expressivité plastique de l’enduit minéral monocouche dans une déclinaison de 24 couleurs à la fois classique et dans l’air du temps.

• Proposition d’un concept original d’outil de présentation des gammes.
• Propositions de noms de marque, logotypes et charte graphique associée.

• Study of architectural trends
• Design of various universes with associated color lines
• Proposal of marketing tools to aid in selection that highlight complementary colors
• Written reports