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The five elements.

Wu Xing as a design language in three pages: the materials vocabulary, four questions for reading a real room, and the two cycles made usable as a fix kit.

• The five elements as a design language.

  The vocabulary layer. Materials, finishes, and shapes mapped to Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. Read a room the way a tailor reads a fabric.

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• How to read a room in element terms.

  Four questions, two minutes per room. The diagnostic that turns the vocabulary into a working read.

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• The cycles, made usable.

  Productive first, controlling in reserve. One rule that turns the cycles into a fix kit instead of a list to memorise.

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