Evaluation of Color on Pasture Landscape. : 1. Color evaluation of pasture facilities.

Abstract

It has been recognized that the pastures have recreational function in addition to that of animal production. Recently in some pastures, recreational facilities like benches, arbors, and rest houses have been constructed, but the consideration from a recreational point of view have not been paied to pasture facilities such as silos, barns, and fences. However, these ordinary pasture facilities are also important in pasture landscape. It is necessary to investigate the preferable colors of the ordinary pasture facilities in pasture landscape. Five facilities, the roof of barn, the fence, the road through fields, the steel tower silo, and the wrapped silo, were selected as the objects for the color evalution. The questionnaire was carried out using 429 panellers by the rank order method to facility's figures painted in eight colors, i. e., red, yellow-red, yellow, green, blue, purple, white, and black. This study indicates that the white color was chosen as the most preferable color on the facilities by many people, but the purple color was the least preferable color. The green color was preferred on gray background, but not preferred on green one of grassland. The young people tended to prefer the cold colors to the warm ones, and the middle-age and elderly-age people tended to prefer the warm ones.