Case studies I-V
 

What to do if you find the Facing side oriented away from the interior lay-out of active rooms. Here you will find some of the situations you may encounter and how to solve them.

Situation I

Most desired situation seen from the perspective of Feng Shui. Human design is in full accordance with environmental Qi. The active rooms are in the yang side, the passive rooms are in the yin side. People tap into the appropriate Qi.

Remedy:

Much depends on the Flying Star chart of the house, but in essence this situation is what we look for in any house. We can locate the bedrooms to the architectural back of the house, as well as the storage rooms. The more active rooms, like the living, family room or our home office should be located to the architectural front in this example.

Situation II

The exterior Ming Tang is still in the architectural front, but the active rooms are now oriented to the back of the house. The passive rooms will be then wrongly to the architectural front. Modern architecture, provided for comfort, i.e. providing privacy and comfort of a back yard view.

This villa has a definite – well defined - Ming Tang to the architectural front.
The floorplan shows a spacious entrance where Qi can be fully admitted into the house. Even though the living room is situated into the back, it cannot justify Facing side to be to the architectural back.
     

Remedy:

Since the basic situation shows a house that still asks us to orient our activities towards the architectural front, we should consider to change this situation into the design shown under A.

Situation III

Both exterior and interior Ming Tang are away from the architectural front. The Facing side is to the back of the house, with the active quarters to the back as well. Most likely this situation is forced upon the house by the environment, where there may still be many factors for the Facing side to be at the architectural front, but closer examination of environmental features showed us the Facing side must be to the architectural back. Also most common for apartment units, in which case this situation was forced upon us by architectural design.

Here is a compound with apartments, all factually oriented with the ship’s bow toward architectural front, with bedrooms and kitchen to the architectural front also.
The living rooms are at the architectural back, facing the central courtyard.
This situation justifies for the house Facing to be at the architectural back.
This ship is heading backward.

Remedy:

Again, the passive rooms will be to the architectural front, but here at least the exterior and interior Ming Tang are connected. In case this situation applies to a ground level house, try to arrange the landscaping at the architectural back and - the flying star chart allowing - use the back door.

Passive rooms like bedrooms to the architectural front as shown here, are not only less inviting, people will hardly be able to rest here, for reason that Qi  is too active to permit tranquility.

Study the flying star chart to see what can be done here.

Situation IV

This could be a situation where there is a road to the architectural front, but all other features are pointing well to the exterior Ming Tang – the Facing side – being at the architectural back of the house. To the back there could be lively landscaping, water, sloping grounds and other yang factors.

Remedy:

Here we should do effort to change the interior, so as to have the interior Ming Tang coincide with the exterior Ming Tang. Take active rooms to the architectural back.

Were we to add floors, these diagrams could become a lot more complicated. Also, the situation for condominiums, apartment buildings and apartment units can become rather complicated.

Situation V

Although it may sound odd to most people, in all above shown examples, the main door played a role of much less importance than one would expect.
The main door remains quite important in assessing the type of Qi that will be admitted into the house, but you could encounter the following situation easily, e.g. in case of a large apartment building. Due to interior hallways, all factors could be oriented towards a certain direction, the main door however oriented away from this.

Condominium resembling the Chinese character Gōng (工) meaning work.
Clearly the Ming Tang to the building is to its architectural front, however individual apartments arranged so that each one of them allows its own view. It is this view that most probable has a balcony and sliding doors and needs to be thus taken as an apartment unit’s typical Facing side.
Clearly then, the main door will be away from this Facing (unit’s exterior Ming Tang) and still quite important to assess the type of Qi entering through the Palace with the door.

Also, consider the condominium’s flying star chart to determine in which section the unit is.

Condominium, to an extent resembling the Chinese character Shān (山) meaning mountain.

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