Tai chi construction
a yin and yang framework for infrastructure
I recently picked up the book the Tao of war by Mikhail Abdulatif. He blends the sciences of Qi gong, Islam, and martial arts as a fighter training manual. While I have taken some martial arts courses and classes, my martial arts is landscape engineering in this sense I see infrastructure is also having a gentle and firm dimension to it hard and soft And yin and yang.
Firm
Civil engineering can be understood as the hard infrastructure a cold and calculate dimension of designing space enables tight precision in all measurements valuable for determining quantities and strength however, it can’t tell the full story of a site.
Gentle
Landscape Architecture on the other hand, prepares the potential site with more cultural and social nuance not quantifiable with numbers, but reflective of the experiential needs of a community artistic tool, such as colors, marker, trace paper dominate the profession than the use of rulers, calculators, and other measuring device devices found in civil engineering
Wasattiya
Two disciplines are not mutually exclusive, and there happens to be overlap between the two hence the concept of wasat (balance) when designing infrastructure becomes critical, balancing the gentle and firm strategies allows the military engineer see the battlefield with a greater aperture and detail.
