FENG SHUI TUNING FOR OFFICES. Peter Jordan. Knowledge and inspiration for office people

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1 Peter Jordan Peter Jordan, Vital-Office 1

2 1. Why good office design is so important 2. How Feng Shui principles can be used to facilitate the design of enriching office environments More detailed information about ergonomics and Feng Shui that can't be covered adequately in this presentation is in the paper. Peter Jordan, Vital-Office 2

3 1. Why good office design is so important How long do you stay in an office? Hours? A few days? A few month? It is a considerable part of your live. We share a great responsibility, while designing office environments. We influence people s lives. We design lives. Peter Jordan, Vital-Office 3

4 1. Why good office design is so important Close your eyes and 1. visualize a standard office you know. 2. Select a desk of a normal co-worker (not the boss) 3. Imagine that you are sitting behind that desk now. 4. Now try to imagine how you will feel after 1300 working days (5 years). Peter Jordan, Vital-Office 4

5 1. Why good office design is so important Try to find out how much the office environment has influenced your live? How much joy and love has it given you day by day? Or how much grey and loveless stimulation in your environment has drowned you. Peter Jordan, Vital-Office 5

6 1. Why good office design is so important Now imagine some places in nature with flowers, trees, birds and other animals. This is what our ancestors since a few million years have seen around them. And this diversity is what we are used to. Peter Jordan, Vital-Office 6

7 1. Why good office design is so important What a contrast. What an affront. What a waste. Peter Jordan, Vital-Office 7

8 1. Why good office design is so important conclusions: 1. Humans are used to nature s diversity and need this for stimulation, inspiration and creative self development. 2. Usually the ordinary design of offices is depressing creative abilities. 3. Office designers need to be aware of their responsibility influencing people s lives. Peter Jordan, Vital-Office 8

9 2. How Feng Shui principles can be used to facilitate the design of enriching office environments a) Qi attraction leads to inspiration and vice versa b) Feng Shui 5 elements cycle c) Stimulation through ingenious design / Feng Shui symbols, dimensions and sacred geometry d) Basic human needs: backing, security and privacy Peter Jordan, Vital-Office 9

10 2. How Feng Shui principles can be used to facilitate the design of enriching office environments a) Qi attraction leads to inspiration and vice versa Feng Shui uses cures which in an inspirational way attract attention. Where the attention is the life force Qi is attracted likewise. Consequently attractive enriched office rooms with an assortment of forms and colors provide more energy (Qi). Peter Jordan, Vital-Office 10

11 2. How Feng Shui principles can be used to facilitate the design of enriching office environments a) Qi attraction leads to inspiration and vice versa Inspiration is the key to a better performance. Creative employees who contribute intuitively respond better and faster to challenges in their job and are therefore more successful, while at the same time experience more quality of live at work. Peter Jordan, Vital-Office 11

12 boring grey 2. How Feng Shui principles can be used to facilitate the design of enriching office environments a) Qi attraction leads to inspiration and vice versa attractive colors unsocial unprotected workplaces protected workgroup example Peter Jordan, Vital-Office 12

13 2. How Feng Shui principles can be used to facilitate the design of enriching office environments b) Feng Shui 5 elements cycle The 5 Feng Shui elements represent a full circle of life s qualities. e.g. spring, summer, autumn, winter; or joy, love, proud, sorrow, forgiveness,. Remember that offices are used long time and therefore need balance and harmony instead of one sidedness Peter Jordan, Vital-Office 13

14 2. How Feng Shui principles can be used to facilitate the design of enriching office environments b) Feng Shui 5 elements cycle Feng Shui design with 5 elements cycle example Peter Jordan, Vital-Office 14

15 2. How Feng Shui principles can be used to facilitate the design of enriching office environments b) Feng Shui 5 elements cycle restrained color planning with one dominant element according to baqua directions example Peter Jordan, Vital-Office 15

16 Primeval forms and rigid sharp edged structures 2. How Feng Shui principles can be used to facilitate the design of enriching office environments c. Stimulation through ingenious design / Feng Shui symbols, dimensions and sacred geometry versus intelligent forms unsocial unprotected workplaces protected workgroup intelligent forms create powerful symbols and an intelligent structure Peter Jordan, Vital-Office 16

17 2. How Feng Shui principles can be used to facilitate the design of enriching office environments d) Basic human needs: backing, security, privacy, Security through backing = back coverage Security through protection = shield in front Security through command = overview of space Personal territory = privacy Peter Jordan, Vital-Office 17

18 2. How Feng Shui principles can be used to facilitate the design of enriching office environments conclusions: 1. good Qi is attracted through attractive colors 2. long time balance and harmony need full circle of 5 elements 3. intelligent forms create powerful symbols and an intelligent structure 4. ergonomics = basic human needs Peter Jordan, Vital-Office 18

19 Our aim is to create a living office space: 1. for each individual to achieve happiness 2. for each organization to achieve effectiveness. More detailed information that can't be covered adequately in this presentation is in the paper. Peter Jordan, Vital-Office 19

20 1. Why good office design is so important The Buddhist point of view takes the function of work to be at least threefold: 1. To give a man a chance to utilize and develop his faculties; 2. to enable him to overcome his egocenteredness by joining with other people in a common task; 3. and to bring forth the goods and services needed for a becoming existence. E.F. Schumacher, Buddhist Economics, / Christopher Alexander A pattern language Pattern no. 80 Peter Jordan, Vital-Office 20