Lei Dazhuang Form School Feng Shui Course

Detailed Form School Curriculum from the Course Materials

This description has been expanded from three supplied Urban Housing Form School workbooks totaling 88 pages. The course progresses from the meaning of landform qi to a practical inspection sequence for homes, offices, shops, factories, and other modern built environments.

Foundations: Form, Qi, Sand, and Water

• The relationship between visible landform, environmental movement, and the traditional concept of qi.
• How natural landforms differ from urban forms such as roads, neighboring buildings, entrances, open areas, and built barriers.
• Practical definitions of sha (supporting or surrounding forms) and water, including how movement and open space may be interpreted in a city.
• Why external observation comes before interior decoration or symbolic Feng Shui objects.

The Four-Sides Framework

A major part of the course develops the Four-Sides model: Azure Dragon on the left, White Tiger on the right, Vermilion Bird in front, and Black Tortoise behind. The workbooks compare support, enclosure, pressure, imbalance, gaps, and relative scale. They also show how the four sides must be read together instead of treating one feature as an isolated good-or-bad sign.

External Form Assessment

• Site selection, terrain, ground level, building shape, house shape, and the relationship between a property and neighboring structures.
• Common urban form issues, including compression, missing support, exposed approaches, road movement, sharp forms, and other visible environmental pressures.
• Timing and context: why the same form may not produce the same interpretation in every property.
• Adjustment principles that begin with the actual form and use of the space rather than relying only on decorative cures.

Interior Form and Room-by-Room Study

• Establishing the internal reference point before assessing movement, stillness, doors, windows, passages, furniture, and active areas.
• Entrances, staircases, living rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, balconies, toilets, studies, and worship or altar rooms.
• Practical considerations such as beams, mirrors, uneven floors, circulation paths, cleanliness, and the relationship between a room and its user.
• Commercial spaces, single-person and shared offices, factories, industrial parks, and storefronts.

Practical Inspection Sequence

The final material outlines a repeatable Yang House survey process: define the property being studied, observe the wider setting, assess external sand and water, identify the building and room reference points, review doors and movement paths, compare internal and external forms, and only then introduce simple directional or Li Qi considerations. This sequence helps learners avoid jumping to conclusions from one object or one room.

Courseware Included in This Curriculum

The reviewed three-part courseware contains diagrams, property examples, form comparisons, interior layouts, and operational notes. It supports the recorded lessons and gives learners a visual reference for applying Form School concepts to contemporary urban housing.