EFFECT OF HEIGHT AND COLOR OF TALL BUILDINGS ON THE PERCEIVED PSYCHOLOGICAL RESTORATION OF RESIDENTS.

The literature on restoration has paid insufficient attention to the efect of architecture on psychological restoration. The present study investigated the ellect of two physical features of tall buildings - height and color- on residents'perceived psychological restoration. Color imaging was used to manipulate the variables. Height and color were each simidated at three levels: tall, medium, and low for height and white, light gray, and dark gray/br color, which were paired in different combinations for a total of nine images. Eighty residents of Hamedan, Iran. responded to questions related to the variables of fascination, being away, and restoration likelihood qfter viewing each image. According to the residts, color did not explain restoration likelihood, but the effect of height on restoration likelihood was confrmed. Moreover. the efect of height and color on restoration likelihoodwas not mediated by being away orfascination. Analysis cd the statistical mean of the dependent variable of psychological restoration indicated that, in tall and low buildings, gray colors resulted in higher restoration likelihood, with light gray being more effective than dark gray in the tall building. However. in buildings of medium height, the white color received the highest restoration-likelihood rating. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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