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73 Table 4-8: Compatibility between Proportion and Five Elements Rules of Form-making Proportion

(a) Balance quantity and quality of various elements; (b) No one element or feature should overpower all of the others; (c) Use the large-scale, humanscale and small-scale in landscape design.

Harmony of Five Elements

(a) Combine Five Elements by using quality (shapes, colours, materials, textures) based on cycle of production; (b) Combine Five Elements in a harmonious quantity, no element or element’s quality is dominant; (c) Use either human-scale and small-scale in garden design. Roles of Physicality

Proportion

(a) Comparison of heights, lengths, areas, masses, volumes and numbers of all elements; (b) Comparison of colours, materials, shapes, textures of all features.

Harmony of Five Elements

Combination of Five Elements quality and quantity. Roles of Function

Proportion

Create the equivalence and concord of all elements and all features.

Harmony of Five Elements

(a) Create the harmony between the whole elements in the garden; (b) Avoid a monotonous scene. Aspects of Psychology

Proportion

(a) Large-scale creates the emotions of wonderment and amazement; (b) Human-scale brings the sense of familiar and comfortable; (c) Small-scale gives a sense of dominance and a desire to care for the smaller objects.

Harmony of Five Elements

(a) Create creative, auspicious energy (b) Creates harmony of the cosmos. Information Source: Reid (1993), Vuong (1996) and Vuong (2004)

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relationship between each element and the equivalence or concord of all elements

4.3.7 Unity technique and theme of each of Five Elements

The technique of Unity and each of the Five Elements of Feng Shui application share the same purpose. That is to create a cohesive perception of the landscape as a whole. To achieve the theme of the both disciplines the colours, forms

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Table 6-2 Summary

Table 6-1 Three layers in Feng Shui schematic

6.3 Conclusion

5.9 Conclusion

6.2 Modern Landscape Design and Feng Shui Practice Recommendations

Table 5-45 Harmony - Man-made Landscape - Written comments

Table 5-44 Harmony - Man-made Landscape - Numeric Response

Table 5-43 Harmony - Preferable Scenario - Written comments

Table 5-42 Harmony - Preferable Scenario - Numeric Response

5.8 Harmony technique and Qi prospect

Table 5-39 Unity - Theme of Shape - Written comments

Table 5-33 Proportion - Design Scale - Written comments

5.6 Proportion technique and Harmony of Five Elements

Table 5-32 Proportion - Design Scale - Numeric Response

Table 5-38 Unity - Theme of Shape - Numeric Response

Table 5-27 Balance - Vertical Asymmetry - Written comments

5-12 Interest – Spot View Shape

5-9 Simplicity - Presence of Screen and Trees

5.3 Simplicity techniques and Bright Court and Four Emblem Animals elements

5.2 Sequence technique and Qi element

Table 5-8 Sequence - Paths in Landscape - Written comments

Table 5-6 Emphasis - Dominant Element - Written comments

Table 4-12 Example of Numeric Response – Harmony – 3rd question

Table 4-9 Compatibility between Unity and theme of each of Five Elements

4-31 Structure of a question presentation

4-28 An example of the Sequence – 1st question

Table 4-11 Compatibility between Harmony and Qi prospect

Table 4-8 Compatibility between Proportion and Five Elements

Table 4-7 Compatibility between Balance and Feng Shui site plan

Table 4-1 Five Geographical Elements effects in 4 scenarios

Table 4-6 Compatibility between Interest and Yin-Yang

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4.2 Analysis of Modern Landscape Design Techniques and Feng Shui Applications

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Table 4-4 Compatibility between Sequence and Qi

Table 4-3 Compatibility between Emphasis and Water