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Green Dragon Design is a design consulting service combining ancient principles and technologies with those of today.

Any building, enclosed space, or landscape setting can, by its design, support its inhabitants spiritually, intellectually, and emotionally as well as being a pleasing physical shelter.  Ancient architects employed spatial energetic techniques to attract and harmonize the life-nourishing forces of Heaven and Earth, and today we are fortunate to inherit several systems containing original wisdom.  Occasional cultural contradictions among these systems disappear when their foundational principles and universal archetypes are revealed.   Wonderful outcomes appear when we update these basic principles with scientific advances from our own era, and apply them in a sensitive fashion to address a client’s necessities of time, place, and individuality.

We enthusiastically provide consulting services for existing buildings as well as for buildings yet to be designed.  We are grateful for the opportunity to do this work, and to experience the profound joy of producing an original and effective design mingling influences from the fascinating domains below:

SACRED GEOMETRY refers to the universal patterns that serve as   blueprints for all creation. Through these patterns, the formless world of spirit moves into the formed world of all matter, from the infinitesimal atomic nucleus to the infinite heavens.  These configurations were once known to cultures all around the globe and were revered as divine.   Now lost to many of the technological societies, sacred geometric principles can still be observed in certain unaffected indigenous cultures, and through extant high-culture structures in Egypt, Greece, Europe, China and Japan. 

Certain forms and proportions, or simply shape itself, were understood to resonate with various qualities, archetypes, and creative streams.  Invoking these qualities for human betterment was the task of knowledgeable architects such as the Egyptian Imhotep and the medieval Masters of the Compasses who authored the spectacular Gothic cathedrals of Europe.   Not meant just for temple architecture, Sacred Geometry can also be revealed in a Navaho hogan or Buddhist stupa as well as in the design of an African village.  To the degree that we understand that our power and health derive from resonance with the subtle energies gathered in our space, so a dwelling, garden, and neighborhood can be a liberating focus for these resonating qualities.  This spatial approach includes not only floor plan but also interweaves the dimensions of volume, time, and energetic quality with the specific desires of the client.

VASTU VIDYA, literally “science of the dwelling”, the ancient Hindu science of design and architecture, has been practiced in India since Vedic times.  It is thought to be the ancestor of Feng Shui, although interesting conflicts of technique occur.   Based on Vedic principles, Vastu design draws spiritual energies from the environment to harmonize our lives.  “ . . . it uses a basic form, the mandala, which represents the radiation of light into space. . . it is also a geometrizing, a “crystallization”, of the cycles of time, fixed in the mandala of space and the earth.”  (A. Snodgrass, The Symbolism of the Stupa)

Utilized for several thousand years, traditional Chinese FENG SHUI recognizes the fact that the we are influenced on all levels of our existence by cosmic and earthly energies as they are manifest in the sequence, shape, and color of the spaces we inhabit.  The interplay of the heavenly and earthly flows results in nine archetypal forces, and a complex and sophisticated science has developed around the proper use of these forces. When designing a building, house, development, or town, it is important to assure that these forces are represented and chi flow is maintained.

The new/old Egyptian art of BIOGEOMETRY contains design principles that create emanations of the same sacred energies present at sacred sites around the Earth.  It addresses the issues of electromagnetic and geopathic pollution through correction and repair because our environment now provides a virtual soup of unhealthy electromagnetic emanations. While the principles are ancient, they have been recently rediscovered and updated by Egyptian architect, Dr. Ibrahim Karim. Various uses and orientations of materials and forms make a design language of shape, color, sound, and motion that create precise beneficial energy patterns.

BAUBIOLOGY/ECOLOGY promotes beautiful non-toxic materials, finishes, and construction methods to sustain positive environmental health, elevating indoor air quality and using state-of-the-art electrical systems to avoid electromagnetic pollution. The European answer to the need for healthy houses, this innovative movement arose almost a century ago in response to increasing overchemicalization of building materials.