Interior architect and Feng Shui master with passion
In a harmonious home lives a healthy person.
WITH SPIRITPLANNING I WANT TO CREATE SPACES IN WHICH PEOPLE CAN DRAW HOPE, SUPPORT AND CONFIDENCE. POWER FOR A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS - A CHANGE OF VALUES FOR OUR FUTURE ON THIS EARTH.
Kathrin Schmack
Kathrin Schmack: THE NEW LIGHTNESS OF BEING
What does harmonious architecture mean? In which rooms do people feel comfortable? How do we achieve more intensity and joy of life? How do we regain our basic trust in the world? These are the questions of our time and they can be answered.
In 20 years, countless consultations and planning, I have not only realized beautiful interior architecture, but also witnessed how life paths of my clients and customers have changed. How doors have opened, new possibilities and opportunities for the future of these people. Because my clients don't want to be statists in their built environment. They want to participate actively and with all their senses in that which is called life.
For the future of these people I have refined my knowledge, verified it and concretized the SpiritPlanning© application system into a powerful system. I am convinced that the resulting process helps people to answer the questions of our time and to translate them into valuable future architecture. Characterized by lightness, clarity and symmetry. Individual and in harmony with the surroundings.
Through this process, my clients and builders not only find more harmony in their lives, but they literally get out of the so called "hamster wheel" of material constraints. Not only their environment, but their whole life is shaped by this new lightness of being. It is a wonderful way from consumer to earth dweller.
Because we interior designers create much more than just rooms. We design the future.
Yours, Kathrin Schmack
SpiritPlanning MEANING
Unification of the eastern teachings of Feng Shui and the western, modern building culture.
Space communication for our souls.
EASTERN TRADITION
The harmony theory Feng Shui is a Taoist art and has a significant influence on the eastern building tradition. Translated, the Chinese word Feng Shui means something like "wind and water." It is all based on the idea of bringing people into harmony with their surroundings. There are numerous holistic techniques for this, which I myself learned from three great masters who have had a significant influence on me. Master Yap Cheng Hai, Master Yap Bo Chu and Master Eva Wong.
They have provided me with a completely new way of looking at and applying to architecture that allows us to meet today's complex demands within climate change in particular, in a completely new way. We don't have to wait for the perfect floor plan when we know techniques to conjure true strength even from a weak place. Now in the value shift is the moment to understand that it's all about human needs, surrounded by natural laws that we must respect. If we use, for example, the knowledge in the correct handling of the 5 elements, with street or land formulas, completely new, armonious foundations arise to consciously design future architecture and strong power places.
WESTERN MODERNITY
The human being in the western modern age lives in an environment that is characterized by functionality, ratio and materialism. Every single one of us learns from childhood to integrate into our system. Consequently, we live in spaces that are designed to meet our physical and social needs; indeed, we are inevitably put into architectural spaces. The size of these spaces is not crucial. Rather, what is crucial is that while our bodies may settle into an apartment or a house, our souls definitely want more.
We are and remain biological beings and our soul needs the connection to nature, to the cosmos. Consider that you are right now, where you read these lines, perhaps in a room, in a train or also in a cafe, in any case, however, you are in the space. Together with me and all other people. All of our souls and our hearts want to feel exactly this connection at every moment of our existence.
Through space communication, which we integrate into Western architectural planning with the transcendent, Eastern-influenced space design technique of SpiritPlanning, we address the needs of our souls. We satisfy our souls and our hearts and learn to live more and more from our holistic source of being.
OUT OF THE HAMSTER WHEEL:
From Citizen to Earthling
After completing her studies, Kathrin Schmack worked for renowned architects such as Peter Kulka in Cologne and Christoph Ingenhoven in Düsseldorf, and only a few years later won the German Interior Design Award in recognition as an independent interior designer in 1997. The competitive athlete, who rowed in the German national team during her studies, is also driven by a clear goal in her profession: to create a home for the individual in which they are in harmony with their surroundings.
Kathrin Schmack Vita
After graduating from the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf with a degree in interior design, she initially worked for several years with internationally renowned architects.
She founded the planning office Genius Loci
Kathrin received the German Interior Design Award in recognition for a Contaktlinsenstudio in Minden.
Her encounters with the Feng Shui Grand Master Yap Cheng Hai in Cologne, Paris, London and Berlin changed her view of space and approach to architectural planning.
After studying classical Feng Shui for several years (with Yap Cheng Hai), she developed the architectural style SpiritPlanning, which unites the building fultures of the Asian world and the Western tradition.
Genius Loci Baukultur is transformed into a limited liability company.
With this transformation, larger projects (also as general contractor) can now be handled.
The expansion of the range of products and services requires new organizational structures and a larger workforce.
Kathrin Schmack is an interior designer who develops the patented SpiritObjects furniture collection.
"Rooms for the soul and the power of colors"
A highly pigmented premium wall color collection is created: SpiritColours..
The showroom "We plan, build and furnish your dreams" at Herderstraße 32 is officially opened.
Here the customer experiences a whole new world of interior design. The 5 elements of Feng Shui and hand-picked design collections of fabrics, furniture and lighting inspire the senses of customers.
... member of the Chamber of Architects NW authorized to submit building documents
... member of the board of the Association of German Architects VDA NW
... member of the Association of German Interior Architects BDIA
... member of the representative assembly of the Chamber of Architects NW
Kathrin Schmack has a grown-up son and lives in Düsseldorf.
She is still an active rower and was a member of the German national team for several years during her studies.
She won the bronze medal at the World Rowing Championships in 1988.
From 2011 to 2022, she was a board member at the Germania rowing club in Düsseldorf.
In April 2023, Kathrin was appointed to the board of the North Rhine-Westphalia Rowing Association.
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"EXCURSUS: SPIRITPLANNING AND THE ART OF FENG SHUI"
An interview with interior designer and Feng Shui master Kathrin Schmack from Düsseldorf about people and space in harmony.
What does Feng Shui mean and where does it come from? Feng Shui is a Daoist harmony teaching from China and translated means as much as "wind and water". The goal of Feng Shui is the harmonization of human with his environment, which can be achieved through a special design of living and living spaces and is therefore also gaining more and more attention in the Western world. The wisdom of nature says that every place has its own character and thus the potential for the best possible development of human and space. This potential is implemented by interior designer and Feng Shui master Kathrin Schmack from Düsseldorf in international building projects within her planning office Genius Loci and in her self-developed concept "SpiritPlanning", which has been tested for years.
Living Talk by Lifestyle-Magazin „myself“
"BETTER THAN FENG SHUI"
MRS. SCHMACK, WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU DO? SpiritPlanning combines Feng Shui with western building culture.
WHY IS THAT A GOOD IDEA? Feng Shui is not about appearance, it's about making people feel good. Interior design is more about aesthetics. When you combine the two, you get homes or offices that look good and bring people peace, harmony and clarity.
DO YOU HAVE AN EXAMPLE? Front yards or the lobby of a business should be as spacious as possible. I call such areas "pocket for the money." A spacious entrance is calming and helps new ideas to emerge - the basis for economic success.
