Table 4-8 Compatibility between Proportion and Five Elements

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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.

Proportion

Harmony of Five Elements Roles of Physicality

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

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.

Proportion

Harmony of Five Elements Aspects of Psychology

(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.

(a) Create creative, auspicious energy (b) Creates harmony of the cosmos.

Information Source: Reid (1993), Vuong (1996) and Vuong (2004)

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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