THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE

FENG SHUI
-Chinese Geomancy
- ancient Chinese practice concerned with the movement and circulation of positive, as well as negative, forces in
the environment
- art of living in harmony with nature
- 2 chinese terms referring to WIND & WATER

Most important element: AIR

Goal of Feng Shui:

to help people live and work in a comfortable and supportive environment; improve a person’s relationship with
the environment

BENEFITS
1. creation of space that empowers and maximizes one’s opportunities in life – bring peace and happiness
2. defines where it is most advantageous to live, how to create a beneficial environment and how to turn
one’s workplace, business, home and landscape into the best center of power.
- how to arrange objects to create harmony in the place they occupy

*FENG SHUI is not a product of any religious beliefs, it is based on a set of careful analyses and calculations.

ASPECTS OF FENG SHUI

1. works with CHI – flow of energy; breath, air, energy, spirit, soul
2. balance of YIN & YANG
3. interaction of the elements of nature: fire, earth, metal, water, wind

YIN YANG
West East
Female Male
Moon Sun
Dark Light
Passive Activity
Soft Hard
Even numbers Odd numbers
Right side Left side

3 IMPORTANT INSTRUMENTS USED IN FENG SHUI

1. Trigrams – map to determine the energy blueprint within the property

Eldest Middle Mother

daughter daughter
WIND FIRE EARTH

Eldest Youngest
Son CHI daughter
THUNDER LAKE

Youngest Middle Father

son Son
MOUNTAIN WATER HEAVEN

2. Lo ‘Pan –for gravesites

3. Ba Gua