Applying the Five Elements in Buildings

The basis of feng shui element is a thorough and productive relationship between the five elements of fire, wood, earth, water and metal.

These relationships are interrelated and depend on the nature of relationships within a particular space and at a certain time, they produce a positive or negative effect on the fortune of living and working environment.

So the introduction of one of the five elements play an important role in creating peace and inspired by the emotional atmosphere surrounding environment. It is perceived as an ambience of space (room atmosphere).

Too much or too little of each element can have an adverse effect on any space and how it is perceived. So the challenge is finding the right balance in integrating the five elements of life and into the room to work, and in doing this while maintaining its aesthetic.


Fire burst of energy

Bank of America Tower

Elements present in a variety of different mediums. Through color, the five elements are represented as groups that could be seen. The red color of encouraging the expression of heat and passion that became an emotional response to the energy or fire.

Physical attributes of fire and heat lamps are represented through physical as fireplaces or kitchen. As an embodiment, the fire took a triangular shape - A shape is creating an abstract vision of a building shooting upward toward the sky, similar to the physical form of the Fire burning; energy is made to move upward. The most appropriate example is the famous flame-shaped building is Bank of America Tower.

Radiate energy into the sky carrying the tremendous energy to all citizens.


Liquidity Water

Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao

Water has always been known as an element that can adapt into any form. An excellent example of a building that is categorized as a form of water is the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

This unique building wrap themselves in a fluid motion shows the shape like water. Created in the shape of the body of water, the use of water helps to further improve the physical elements of the building itself. By understanding how the elements work cycle, water is produced through the metal energy.

Thus, the outer skin of the building, encased in sheet metal, the energy entering the metal needed to form water on the building.

The balance of yin and yang is also a term used for a balance between active and passive. In architectural design, it is important to always maintain a balance between active and passive space. This can be represented by private and public nature of space planning or through visual interpretation like the peace of the body of water with a dynamic form of the Guggenheim museum.


Uniting Two Elements

Guggenheim Museum in New York

Metals are elements that are curved to form curved, usually in one direction. In abstract form, assumed a round shape that creates a dynamic movement to instill anticipation of something beyond the form. In color, the color of pure white or gray palette is categorized as a metal.

Guggenheim Museum in New York, form a circular highlight architectural features that attract attention and evoke the mystery of something that actually there are nearly always invited to be explored.

In the productive cycle of elements, the earth becomes a source to improve the shape of the metal. Built in reinforced concrete, a mixture of both elements invite innovative use of a rigid building blocks to create an organic form.

To further strengthen the concept of Earth's energy, rectilinear square accents are carefully designed to break the monotony of making it possible to form the yin and yang mutually influence each other.

Yin aspect is represented by the feminine circle shape that sits on a square base of the building, which takes aspects. So by playing with two basic shapes - square and circle, the work of this architecture shows how the shape and the elements work together, bringing a harmonious balance to the overall amazing building.