Chromatic Analysis of the Palace of Calatayud Pavements and Its Application in Design

The Palace of Calatayud is part of the bourgeois architectural heritage of the city of Valencia. Designed in the early twentieth century by the architect Juan Luis Calvo Catarineu, it retains much of the ornamental elements that characterize the eclectic style under which it was conceived. In particular, an interesting sample of the hydraulic tile pavements and ceramic mosaics by Nolla that lined the noble rooms of the building stands out. The work focuses on the chromatic and morphological analysis of these coverings, based on the in-situ measurement of the color parameters of the different ceramic pieces in NCS System notation and the subsequent graphic representation of the different combinations found, in particular those related to the Nolla mosaics. The variety of the resulting designs that define this ceramic typology -based on the play of colors and shapes of the modular pieces- is appreciable and evidences the versatility of this tiling and its capacity to adapt to the morphology of the spaces where it is inserted.