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title: "Bebedero Blue"
description: "Bebedero Blue, traced across the buildings that use it."
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# Bebedero Blue

- Base: #315EA8
- In light: #3477C3
- In shadow: #263D77
- Reflected: #4D8DB5

Blue in Barragán's work is less a sky color than a way of pushing a plane back — it reads as distance and coolness rather than as a wall's local hue. In Casa Gilardi two blue surfaces frame the dining room, giving the isolated red plane a field to sit against; in Plaza del Bebedero a single blue wall closes a long perspective axis.

The tone shifts with what's near it: under direct sun it saturates toward ultramarine, in shadow it moves closer to indigo, and next to water it reads noticeably lighter and greener than the same pigment does on a dry wall. Barragán rarely fixed a wall's final color from drawings alone — he tested large painted samples directly against the built wall under changing daylight before settling on one.

That sensitivity to a color's neighbors is close to what Josef Albers described in his own studies of color interaction, and the parallel between the two has been argued directly rather than left as coincidence.

## Used in

- [Torres de Satélite](https://fondomoderno.com/buildings/torres-de-satelite) — Field: Blue sets a cool plane against the sky and the warmer neighboring towers
- [Las Arboledas](https://fondomoderno.com/buildings/las-arboledas) — Focus: At the Plaza del Bebedero, a blue wall terminates a long perspective view
- [Casa Gilardi](https://fondomoderno.com/buildings/casa-gilardi) — Field: Two flanking planes give the isolated red wall a field to sit against

## Part of

[Luis Barragán's Architectural Palette](https://fondomoderno.com/colors/luis-barragans-architectural-palette)