Powerful Feng Shui Principles for Modern Architectural Designs
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There are numerous traditional and nontraditional feng shui designing principles in modern-day building industries. Building professionals need not be concerned about following principles to the extreme, as they can be interpreted in many ways. However, there are three basic principles that, when applied wisely, can greatly enhance the designs as well as the sales of new homes.
I. BALANCE
One of the basic principles is balance. According to feng shui, there is a direct relationship between balances in a physical setting to the balance in the lives of the people who live in that setting. Balance in a physical environment is the shape and the form - and also the dynamics in it. For example, a rectangular-shaped lot is considered balanced because there are no missing corners, whereas an L-shaped lot is unbalanced because one corner is missing. A building with uneven height is also unbalanced because of its irregularities. A big house built on a small lot is out of proportion and is therefore considered out of balance. The principle of balance also applies to lights and sounds. When a building has too many windows or doors on one side and none on the other, it creates imbalance because there is too much brightness and noise on one side and too much darkness and silence on the other side. All these create an imbalance in the lives of the people who live in the unbalanced space.
November 2007 Builder Architect Edition Issue