When visiting a water park, amusement park, theme park or other leisure and tourist attraction, we don’t usually notice the service buildings or certain technical facilities that are essential to their daily operation. This apparent invisibility is no coincidence. It is probably due to a colour created specifically to go unnoticed. Its purpose is not to decorate, but to disappear from the visitor’s field of vision. It is called go away green in English.
Go away green consists of a range of pale greens, close to the natural tones of the environment, which the human eye tends to ignore. It was Disney who popularised its use to conceal technical elements, an effect it achieved without resorting to large structures or costly solutions.
In water parks, theme parks and amusement parks, everything competes for the visitor’s attention. Attractions, theming, landscaping and routes must contribute to an immersive experience without visual interruptions. These shades of green make it possible to minimise the visual impact of technical buildings and service areas, therefore maintaining thematic immersion without distractions. At the same time, they reduce costs compared to more complex architectural solutions.
By Ángel Ibáñez Pérez, senior MEP engineer in the Architecture Department at Amusement Logic
