23- inadequate colour contrasts - Construction （23 -色彩对比不足建设）.pdf

Tile Today, May – July 1999, p 48 et al. INADEQUATE COLOUR CONTRASTS AND OTHER ILLUMINATING CONSIDERATIONS When we asked Richard Bowman to write about a typical day in his working life, he conveyed some of the benefits gained from attending Qualicer in Spain. While such work may sound like a jaunt to some, the success of such conferences is also a function of the quality of the work that the participants perform in their various daily capacities. Richard has kept readers informed about standards developments, but what initiates such work? In providing an interim solution to a previously unrecognised problem, Richard now uses several standards to reflect a different work function, while throwing further light on our perception of visual appearance. Tiling experts frequently caution against selecting tiles on the basis of aesthetics alone, as there are several functional requirements that should be considered. While there is more to a tile than appearance, there is more to appearance than we generally appreciate. Modern processing techniques can result in surface and sub-surface appearance phenomena that, individually and in combination, defy adequate visual or instrumental specification. This limits our ability to define and consistently manufacture products of desirable appearance, or analyse and exclude those of inferior quality. In 1994, Mark Newall, an English architect, presented his own idiosyncratic view of flooring selection criteria: ‘Architects care most about what a product looks like. This is also the second and third most important factors. After this comes the