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title: "Earth Ochre"
description: "Earth Ochre, traced across the buildings that use it."
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# Earth Ochre

- Base: #C18A50
- In light: #D6A260
- In shadow: #8F693F
- Reflected: #A4774E
- Weathered: #B69269

Ochre is quieter than Barragán's pinks and blues, but it forms the material foundation of the palette — golden, dry-soil tones that connect painted architecture to traditional plaster and the surrounding Mexican landscape rather than to any single mixed color. Unlike yellow, which often reads as light or radiance, ochre feels material, dense and grounded.

These walls rarely stay visually uniform: rough plaster, weather, moisture and age introduce pale patches and darker marks, so the surface reads as worked by hand rather than mechanically finished. Ochre is the tone most often meeting the black volcanic ground directly, grounding brighter walls in their site.

## Used in

- [Casa Estudio Luis Barragán](https://fondomoderno.com/buildings/casa-estudio-luis-barragan) — Material: Ochre and warm plaster connect the rooms to the dry landscape outside
- [Casa Prieto López](https://fondomoderno.com/buildings/casa-prieto-lopez) — Material: Warm ochre plaster meets the black volcanic terrain of El Pedregal directly
- [Jardines del Pedregal](https://fondomoderno.com/buildings/jardines-del-pedregal) — Material: Ochre plaster on the district's houses meets the black volcanic ground directly
- [Capilla de las Capuchinas](https://fondomoderno.com/buildings/capilla-de-las-capuchinas) — Material: Warm plaster on the approach connects the chapel to the surrounding construction
- [Las Arboledas](https://fondomoderno.com/buildings/las-arboledas) — Material: The bare ground reads as a third, horizontal plane in the composition

## Part of

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