Authors : Goh Kai Chen, Goh Hui Hwang, Nur Hafizah Mohd Fadzil and Toh Ting Yuan
Abstract: Geomancy is a Chinese’s tradition used as an art of placing to gain harmony between people, buildings and environment. Architects and other building professionals support the geomancy theory in building design for the mentioned harmony concept. Besides that, one of the aims of sustainable design is to obtain harmony in a whole through integration of different system and elements. This is similar to the Chinese holistic view and geomancy approach to the built environment. This research aims to investigate the basic criteria of geomancy theory in housing design and the architect’s perspective on the applied geomancy theory in housing design. Furthermore, this research also studies the implementation of geomancy theory on the architect’s perspective. Ten architects from Selangor were chosen as interview respondents. Framework analysis and matrix analysis were used to analyze the data. This research serves to increase the awareness and benefits of applying geomancy theory into residential house designs. The findings showssustainable and geomancy concepts in residential design criteria are the same in the terms of sustainable development which final result aims to reduce the impact to the nature and enhance the quality of the environment and living quality at the same moment.
Goh Kai Chen, Goh Hui Hwang, Nur Hafizah Mohd Fadzil and Toh Ting Yuan, 2018. Geomancy Theory in Housing Design: Architects Perspective. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 13: 3097-3103.