Supports and pressures

Exerting pressures

Buildings exert different pressures on each other. A taller building plays the role of the tortoise in the Five Animals, giving weight, support, and protection to the one in front.

A child between two bullies

The little apartment building in the middle of these two tall buildings it like a small child between two bullies. The taller structures support the sides of the little one, but their main effect is literally to suck energy away from it and to exert converging downward pressure.

High-pressure energy

Any home which is directly opposite a small gap between two buildings, whether they are tall like this or little semi-detached houses, will be exposed to a constant stream of high pressure energy, said in Feng Shui to act on that home like a chopping knife.

Supportive but oppressive

If a building at the rear is clearly taller than the one in front, it is regarded as supportive, like the tortoise. But if it is just tall enough to peep over the top of the building in front, it is said to be like a person peering over your shoulder and its effect is oppressive. This building also suffers from being exposed to the knife-like pressure from the sharp corner of the office block opposite.