Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional Vastu
What this domain tests
This domain examines how Vastu is adapted to offices, shops, factories, schools, and hospitals. The exam looks for activity-based zoning rather than a copy of residential rules.
Core rules and concepts
- Identify the dominant activity and its element. A furnace, boiler, or electrical plant is fire; water storage is water; heavy machinery is earth; storage and movement relate to air and space.
- Offices: the owner or chief executive sits in the southwest; accounts and cash in the north; reception in the northeast or east; staff in the east or southeast; marketing and movement in the northwest. The main entrance is best in the east or north.
- Industry: heavy machinery in the southwest or south; boiler and furnace in the southeast; water tank in the north or northeast; raw materials in the west or southwest; finished goods in the northwest; waste away from the northeast.
- Institutions: school entrance in the east or north; classrooms in the east or north; library in the northeast; administration in the southwest; toilets in the northwest. A hospital should keep emergency access clear and place heavy equipment away from the northeast.
Worked example
A factory plot of 100 ft by 150 ft has road access on the east. Put the gate on the east, reception and office in the east or northeast, boiler and furnace in the southeast, heavy press in the southwest, water tank in the north, raw material in the west, and finished goods in the northwest. The reasoning is that fire is placed in Agni's southeast, heavy earth in the southwest, and water in the north or northeast.
Traps that cost marks
Do not copy residential room rules into a factory. Do not place a boiler or furnace in the northeast. Do not put cash and accounts in the southwest while leaving the north unused. Do not ignore the road side when fixing the gate.