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

- Base: #AA593E
- In light: #C36C48
- In shadow: #793F33
- Reflected: #91412F
- Weathered: #A56E5A

Terracotta is ochre's warmer, more fired relative — burnt orange and clay red drawn from traditional ceramics and construction rather than a studio mix. It is warmer and more mineral than Bougainvillea Red, and less luminous than Reyes Yellow: where ochre reads as dry earth, terracotta reads as worked, kilned material.

It rarely carries a room on its own; it sits alongside ochre and volcanic stone as part of the same material register, warming compositions that would otherwise read as purely mineral.

## Used in

- [Casa Estudio Luis Barragán](https://fondomoderno.com/buildings/casa-estudio-luis-barragan) — Material: Warm terracotta tones sit alongside the ochre plaster in the working rooms
- [Casa Prieto López](https://fondomoderno.com/buildings/casa-prieto-lopez) — Material: Burnt, clay-red tones extend color from architectural details to whole surfaces
- [Capilla de las Capuchinas](https://fondomoderno.com/buildings/capilla-de-las-capuchinas) — Material: Burnt, warm tones connect the chapel's screens to traditional construction
- [Cuadra San Cristóbal](https://fondomoderno.com/buildings/cuadra-san-cristobal) — Material: Warm earth-colored planes anchor the composition at a near-territorial scale

## Part of

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