Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Feng shui in interior decoration'

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Akron, School of Family and Consumer Science, 2005.
"August, 2005." Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed 11/28/2005) Advisor, Virginia Gunn; Committee members, Robert Brown, John Vollmer; School Director, Richard Glotzer; Dean of the College, Mark Auburn; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.

The main goal of this thesis is to explore how interior spaces in hotel designs can provide a less stressful environment and promote health and harmony by using Feng Shui Principles. It will first discuss the principles of Feng Shui and general hotel design, and then move on to demonstrate how the application of Feng Shui principles can be used to create a hotel environment that encourages health and harmony in its occupants. This project will demonstrate principles that not only can be applied to hotel space, but also can be practiced in any other interior space. This thesis, therefore, demonstrates new possibilities for how "care of the self" is delivered and received through design.

碩士
國立臺灣科技大學
資訊管理系
98
Everybody whishes to have his/her own dream house. There are some interior design software that can help us to visualize the results. Through the help of Feng-Shui theory, the best interior design can improve the resident’s health and furtune. However, it is not the case that when the users use all such software takes Feng-Shui into consideration. Moreover, as most people are not familiar with Feng-Shui theory and method, we create an “Automatic Feng-Shui Aware Interior Design System”. In this paper, we propose a system that can create a Feng-Shui aware interior decoration system according to resident’s preference. The user inputs the layout of a house , his/her gender and birth year. Our system divides the house space through user-defined bin unit, to obtain a set of rectangular bins. We choose the best location to place the furniture according to the Feng-Shui rule, where each bin is associated with different Feng-Shui cots. Our system uses a recursive algorithm to find the minimum cost of furniture placement. If a user is not satisfied with the result, he/she can manually modify the location or the direction any furniture. As a result, the user can use our system to create his/she dream house.

碩士
中原大學
室內設計研究所
106
The purpose of this study was to explore how practitioners in interior design faced the considerations of Feng-Sui and other taboos of the owners. The method was based on interviews and surveys and targeted practitioners in the interior design industry to select subjects involved in Feng Shui design. This research discussed the issues of commonality by text analysis. The results of the survey found that the following experiences have been included in "Feng Shui Considerations": (1) Basically, most owners who have consulted Feng-Shui specialists tend to listen to those specialists’ advice and advance concern for some Feng Shui points. In addition, if a designer understands the concept of Feng Shui, there will not only be extra points to present to the owner, but it also helps the overall communication between both the designer and owner. Moreover, one of the factors is that some owners are also affected by local customs of Feng-Shui subculture. If the elders in the family have some input, they will adopt a positive attitude and focus on those concerns. (2) There are about 20 Feng-Shui considerations which are often mentioned in the interior design plan, in which some of them are rooted in traditional folk beliefs, such as door to door or bedside/bed tail aiming toward a window, and others that hold in awe and veneration to the bond of humanity and life/death. In addition, other considerations such as dealing with a hall, the opposite sides of stoves and refrigerators, etc., can be used to try to figure out the truth through the actual experience in life. The others are kind of " a puzzling Feng-Shui consideration", such as the kitchen floor is high, the bed must be slept in such a way as female left and man right...etc., thus generating a more unconventional and empty statement. In this regard, it can only be said that this is the esoteric concept of “Blessed is a land inhabited by people who do good."

碩士
樹德科技大學
建築與室內設計研究所
103
This thesis is aimed to discuss the significantly intimate relationships between Feng-Shui and architecture as well as Feng-Shui and interior design. In addition, theories concerning triple-saver door are also used to discuss its tremendous impact of Feng-Shui on interior design. So far as the Chinese are concerned, Feng-Shui is a set of professional theories with a long history, originating from our ancestors that make close and subtle observations on the geographic environment, inclusive of mountains, hills, lands, lakes, seasonal variations, and the like. Our ancestors eventually discover that significantly intimate relationships do exist between the natural environment, human beings and other creatures alike. Moreover, they also make significant discoveries that human beings are able to proliferate in an advantageous way by finding out appropriate environmental spaces as well as sites or locations. In this light, Feng-Shui is also called “Skills to observe lands,” meaning using various ways to observe geographical variations and predicting natural phenomena and , as a result, meant as scientific methods and practical principles to select palaces, temples, villages and graveyards. In brief, Feng-Shui is a kind of scientific knowledge to select appropriate sites or locations for particular reasons; to put it differently, Feng-Shui is essentially and basically a method to discover environmental and geographical traits for particular sites and purposes. On account of the rapid development and advancement of broadcasting technology, such concepts regarding Feng-Shiu have been gradually accepted as pressure beams, door red, road red, wall knife, evil hallway, door to door, rooms of rooms, stairs confronting doors and doors confronting kitchens. The above concepts are basic notions of Feng-Shui and thus have exerted a tremendous and indispensable influence on residential spaces or sites of human beings. By interviewing Kongzhao Min, who possesses valuable experiences and reliable practices of almost five hundred cases of Feng-Shui, significant findings are made as follows: behavior modes of mankind and his / her living qualities are intimately connected with environmental spaces of residency, including interior surroundings and exterior ones. In this regard, Feng-Shui is briefly defined as environmental spaces concretely embodied with human choices of residency. This thesis starts with studying and exploring ancient books with respect to the origin of Feng-Shui, its shapes of theories, its professional publications and finally professional realizations of Feng-Shui practices in selecting residency. Significant observations are made that Feng-Shui is identical with the environmental spaces, and vice versa. Furthermore, the definitions of modern environmental spaces and those of Guo Pu’s described in detail in his books are surprisingly identical. Chi or air scatters as winds rise and stops as waters gather. Our ancestors try hard to gather Chi and live in harmony with it, which is called Feng-Shui afterwards. Vapor from the atmospherical humidity and rain is sufficiently accumulated in soils, which evaporates and subsequently releases water. Breezes blow the vapor high up and take it down into ponds, rivers, seas, and oceans. The vapor rising from soils meet with vapor in the air, evaporate in the winds and then stop by the water side, which is not merely a natural phenomenon but also a concrete practice of Feng-Shui. In order to concretely demonstrate Feng-Shui practices, Feng-Shui should be discussed in the framework of the natural environment. Taboos with regard to Feng-Shui should also be based on the environmental structure. With the prevailing notions and practices of Feng-Shui, the living residency of human beings are apparently in harmony with the environmental spaces. Currently, poor or inappropriate interior designs decrease in numbers. However, one problem is still worth note; that is to say, complaints about one’s living residency or spaces derive not from poor interior designs but from confronting against the environmental spaces. In real cases of practicing Feng-Shui, some people living in identical interior designs suffer from different but severe problems of illness and emotions. The reason is that the environmental spaces and qualities they reside in are wholly poor and don’t correspond to proper human residency. Feng-Shui is not merely a knowledge of science or an art of spatial exploration; it is also an environmental ecology of mankind. Human beings are enormously affected by Feng-Shui. Feng-Shui, therefore, is essentially an art pursuing and practicing harmony between mankind and the natural environment.

碩士
國立雲林科技大學
建築與室內設計系
106
Due to the influence of Fengshui, in China, you may see that people’s residential concepts of residential Feng-Shui in mega-environmental landscapes, urban, rural, traditional ancient houses, and modern residences that reflect every principles of details. With the influence of every aspects of factors like natural environments, society, economy, and population increase-or-decrease, the residential status and constructional status would alter. With the population increase-or-decrease and demand, peoples’ living scope has expanded from single-story buildings to skyscrapers, and from space status to vertical ones. In light of the fact that single-family houses are in which the majority of people dwell, which is scarcely studied, this study would be based on whether traditional principles of Yangzhai Fengshui could be applied in the modern single-family houses, as well as inferring what the key relation among the alternations of the influences vertical spaces could be through Feng-Shui Principles. This study is processed through literature organization and data analysis, from the theory of “zhai exterior modeling” and “zhai interior modeling” of the book “Yangzhai Shishu”. All the operational norms of yangzhai fengshui and taboo decorations are constructed into principals through case-analysis and inductions. The relationship between interfaces and combination of Fengshui and interior planes is discussed so that we may understand the relationships and meanings between decoration principles of interior space and vertical dimension, about fengshui. After analyzing the six structures of influential factors of yangzhai fengshui , like (a) surrounding topography (b) surrounding roads (c) environments which cause bad fortunes: zhai interior modeling (d) spatial combinations (e) spatial patterns (f) route directions, as well as related cases, the most common problems of single-family houses include (a) surrounding topography, (d) spatial combinations, and (e) spatial patterns,about Feng-Shui. All the spaces in the entrance door, the hall, the living room, the bedroom, and the kitchen are on the basis of “azure dragon on the left and white tiger on the right. The spaces of kitchen and washroom are dependent on where the vertical relative positions of stoves and septic tanks are. According to these case-analysis, the ancient-and-modern relations of vertical part of single-family houses, such as the water tower, show the significance of how to vertically place one tower in addition to the different use of utensils. Besides, compared to the traditional houses, although modern single-family houses show differently in constructional patterns from the appearances of fengshui setups, the conceptions of judging setups that cause bad fortunes from interior and exterior environments still remain the same. Therefore, we may change the exterior and interior decorations of single-family houses, and alter the house environments in different appearances depending on the different patterns that cause bad fortunes.

碩士
亞洲大學
經營管理學系碩士在職專班
107
Feng Shui is perhaps the essence of traditional Chinese wisdom and can be seen as an integral part of Chinese culture. So far as the Chinese are concerned, Feng-Shui is a set of professional theories with a long history, originating from our ancestors that make close and subtle observations on the geographic environment, inclusive of mountains, hills, lands, lakes, seasonal variations, and the like. Our ancestors eventually discover that significantly intimate relationships do exist between the natural environment, human beings and other creatures alike. Moreover, they also make significant discoveries that human beings are able to proliferate in an advantageous way by finding out appropriate environmental spaces as well as sites or locations. In this light, Feng-Shui is also called “Skills to observe lands,” meaning using various ways to observe geographical variations and predicting natural phenomena and , as a result, meant as scientific methods and practical principles to select palaces, temples, villages and graveyards. In brief, Feng-Shui is a kind of scientific knowledge to select appropriate sites or locations for particular reasons; to put it differently, Feng-Shui is essentially and basically a method to discover environmental and geographical traits for particular sites and purposes. On account of the rapid development and advancement of broadcasting technology, such concepts regarding Feng-Shiu have been gradually accepted as pressure beams, door red, road red, wall knife, evil hallway, door to door, rooms of rooms, stairs confronting doors and doors confronting kitchens. The above concepts are basic notions of Feng-Shui and thus have exerted a tremendous and indispensable influence on residential spaces or sites of human beings. Significant findings are made as follows: behavior modes of humankind and his / her living qualities are intimately connected with environmental spaces of residency, including interior surroundings and exterior ones. In this regard, Feng-Shui is briefly defined as environmental spaces concretely embodied with human choices of residency.

碩士
雲林科技大學
建築與室內設計系碩士班
98
This study focuses on the view of body and the view of body traditional Chinese culture applied to interior design based on Feng-shui consideration. It is clear that the view of body is applied to the interior layout of housing even the modern time. Firstly, this thesis discusses and summaries the thought of breathe, namely, Chi, and context of human being. Secondly, this study explores how the thought of human body applies to the knowledge of environment. This study finds that our environmental elements are recognized as thought of Feng-shui; such as Yinyang, Wuxing, etc. The ideology and the view of body have been obviously applied to Taiwan’s traditional architecture, and furthermore applied to interior layout of housing. According to the literature review and the analysis of some interior layouts of housing, this study concludes the view of body is clear to be applied to modern architecture. One of examples is the sacred space become the core of the interior layout in order to protect the house. The sacred space is referred to the head, and the other parts of human being are also recognized. Finally, this study summaries the view of body is not only applied to the traditional houses, but also applied the interior layout of contemporary housing.

碩士
國立臺灣科技大學
建築系
101
As the computer and information technology advance, digital media is changing the teaching and practices of design education. A number of studies suggested that the rise of computer media, the development of computer aided design system results in a great impact to the design process, while computers are even applied in the concept development in early design. In view of the availability of mobile carriers in recent years, the study proposes the development of an E-Book about the issue on Feng Shui for House Geomancy (Yang Zhai) through reading the mobile carriers, in order to learn how to apply the issues into design behaviors and to carry out experiment under the concept of mobile learning. The data required is attained from the test and questionnaires to help us understand the learning effectiveness. Paul Kim from Stanford University proposed the so-called “massive pedagogical paradigm shift,” whereas learners are empowered to create educational content and to learn critical-thinking skills from the process. The study designs an E-Book on basic Feng Shui Design that includes the directions, appearance, layout, furniture position, colors, decoration, and how to properly allocate in the best interests of the dwellers. The learners are introduced with new learning patterns through the platform of E-Books, such as learning the spatial allocation through media forms, simulating the Feng Shui constituted by different spaces, thereby encouraging the learners with positive and intrinsic learning through self-guided approaches.

碩士
佛光大學
未來學系
96
Abstract Geomancy or “Feng-Shui” is the wisdom of Chinese civilization, recorded and transmitted from generation to generation over thousands of years. The knowledge is unique not only to the Chinese but also widely accepted internationally into modern times, because of its scientific principles and academic value. Research into geomancy is relatively sparse, mostly conducted in the academic sphere, and without scientific support. The study is from the basis of my own first – hand research, combined with literature review and theories analysis, it is aimed to provide a better understanding of the science in modern times. The study divides into four sections. Firstly, it focuses on the constructional aspect and compares it with western buildings from the viewpoint of natural 、human and architectural aspects. Secondly, the research applies geomantic omen to the household, company, market, and factory .Thirdly, the findings will compare the geomantic omen knowledge with modern architecture, as well as modern interior design. Finally, the focus will be addressed on the buildings of modern household, company, market, and factory. I have been involved in China’s geomantic omen for many years and my work has shown that geomantic omen has its own scientific basis, and has a good prospect which is worth of investing more effort. It is my wish to pass on our ancestors’ wisdom to the younger generations. Key words:：1.【Feng Shui】science of geomancy 2.【Jian Zhu Jing Guan】landscape of architecture 3.【Yang Zhai】residence of the living 4.【Luan Tou】topography of geomancy 5.【Li Gi】geomancy theory or geomantic theory

碩士
國立中正大學
外國語文研究所
89
In “The Masque of the Red Death,” Edgar Allan Poe remarkably achieves the clarity of complex and dramatic spectacles--the Prince Prospero’s grotesque abbey and his elaborate masque--through his genius in language. This thesis aims to clarify the meaning (implications) of Prospero’s unusual abbey in the tale. The thesis attempts to examine the interrelationships between the Prince Prospero and his bizarre abbey from three different perspectives: Chinese feng-shui, modern environmental psychology and Jungian analysis. Chapter One investigates the function of Prospero’s unusual building. Its architectural anomalies include remoteness, seclusion, irregular architectural disposition, difficulty of access, orientation and colors. There is a complicated twofold structure here dealing with the bizarre setting by contrast between the perspectives of Chinese feng-shui and modern environmental psychology. Chapter Two examines Prince Prospero’s psychic transformation and its possible connection with his unusual abbey: how the bizarre setting develops Prospero’s delusion, compulsive behavior and subversive commanding figure. Chapter Three focuses the meaning of voluptuous decorations by Jungian analysis. Rather than the operation of the abbey upon Prospero in Chapter One, Jungian ideas stress the environment as a reflection of the human mind. Chapter Four explores Poe’s retarding devices─the masquerade toward the close of the fifth or sixth month of seclusion. The comparison between abbey and masquerade helps integrate the above three viewpoints.

碩士
逢甲大學
建築所
100
In this century the global temperature has recorded an average raise of 0.6℃, and 1℃ raise in the metropolitan areas. Therefore many countries around the world are currently discussing and researching topics dedicated to green energy and greenhouse effect. Even though Taiwan is not part of the UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme), but as being part of this world, to study and evaluate the feasibility to reduce environment burden is also our responsibilities. Through the concept of “energy saving and emission reduction” this research edition will provide info and database of building materials as reference for further research which are quoted from Research Paper based upon the studies of CO2 emission of a typical shop. A shop located in Taichung city will be the research target. 33 different material samples will be selected and investigation, analysis and interview of personnel around the samples will be conducted. The data once gathered will be divided into 4 categories: ceiling, wall, flooring, furniture. The data will then be analyzed into four different sections: type of shops, interior refurbishment, building materials and research papers. Some advices will be given according to the concept of “energy saving and emission reduction” in order to provide a guide to redefine the specification of interior refurbishment, and will provide companies reference data on building materials so that there could be less impact to the environment during the execution of construction work. There are a great varieties of new building materials nowadays, and if the industries can adopt the concept of CO2 emission and provide their research results obtained from every single steps of the whole process starting from production, manufacturing, transporting, machining until finish product, it will be of great assistance to analyze the environment loading and, of course, will have a great effect on environment loading reduction as well as global temperature reduction.

碩士
淡江大學
建築學系碩士班
97
The opening design of building envelope is closely related to the merits of the indoor quality. Improper design of the openings will make people that long stay in the room have dizziness, headache, drowsiness, inattention, poor efficiency, such as adverse effects. Since ancient times, Chinese Architecture is very focused on the design of openings and Feng Shui has been spread. However, generations do not understand it, and think it is Superstition. In this study, the direction of development is the relationship between airflow and Feng Shui. And apply the CFD software simulate the indoor air of bedroom space to find common ground with Feng Shui, in order to achieve the objective "scientific Feng Shui". The following is the introduction of the chapters： Chapter 1 This chapter describes the motivation, purpose, scope, process and method of the study. Chapter 2 From the collection of the literature related to Feng Shui to sorted out the schools of Feng Shui for the study, and applied to the space module to rise to the scope and objectives of this study. Chapter 3 Establish the form of the space, the selected location, and the way to assess indoor air of the study. Chapter 4 The use of CFD software for simulation of the indoor air, and assess the numerical analysis of the measuring point. Then process the data of the measuring point in order to assess the credibility of Feng Shui. Chapter 5 Compare the difference of the indoor air of the space open one window and the space open two windows. Chapter 6 For making use of CFD simulation to verify Feng Shui, give the conclusions and suggestions.

碩士
逢甲大學
土地管理所
102
>Feng Shui is a special culture of the Chinese,Even in today, many people will still consider “Feng Shui” when they Buy a house. Therefore, this study attempts to understand the impact on purchase intension of Feng Shui, especially the layout of the doors. Purpose of the research is：(1) Try to know about consumer cognition of Feng Shui；(2) Discuss the effect of Feng Shui to purchase intentions，And analysis the diversity in different level of cognition of Feng Shui；(3) Discuss the effect of Feng Shui to Purchase intentions, And analysis the diversity in the different demographics. First, through literature review summarized and expert interviews to find the Feng Shui factor as the basis to measure the impact of the level of cognition of Feng Shui and the purchase intension; Secondly, through the questionnaires to explore the the impact on purchase intension of Feng Shui in Taichung City. The results show, Respondents are unclear about feng shui items,but they still consider these layot when purchase house; In addition, there are significant differences that among the different cognitive groups of the impact on Purchase Intension of feng shui factors; And there aren't significant difference that among the different demographics of the impact on purchase intension of Feng Shui factors.

碩士
逢甲大學
建築所
96
Abstract Generalized indoor makes a general reference the housing, the office, the movie theater, the dining room, the department store, and even half airtight space for example: Vehicle, ship, airplane and so on…. In average person''s idea thought that the indoor air quality should compared to outdoor want cleanly clean, is in effect it is not so, recent years proposed that the morbid state construction syndrome (Sick Building Syndrome, SBS), building related disease (Building related illness, BRI) and so on new concepts, make a general reference the long-term life and the work have some morbid states in the modern building''s people to respond, another Taiwan''s house decoration behavior mostly deviation on site, and has excessively situation of the repair, therefore this research wants after the repair constructs air in the indoor spatial material of the existence for example: Formaldehyde, VOC, carbon dioxide, suspended particulate matter and so on…Then after repair the space carries on the environment examination; The expectation understood repair, after the different repair state in the spatial indoor air has the material to have the influence possibly, makes the careful appraisal. Motive of for this research. This research compares and matches the scene examination to obtain the data by the house decoration building materials use, defines clearly each item of representing pollutant possible origin as well as the feasible countermeasure again because of the related literature, and auxiliary by chasing when the density change the linear chart regards its substantial change situation to carry on the analysis in view of the obtained material. Mainly may result in the achievement to be as follows: (1) indoor air quality examination pattern and flow establishment. (2) indoor air quality appraisal target establishment. (3) draws up the indoor air quality independent management criterion, expected that enhances the people to take seriously the indoor air quality question. Keywords: Indoor air quality, house decoration, environment examination