Research On Innovative Thinking In Architectural Design

The research on the innovative thinking in architectural design is a significant domain of the architectural theory, an organic part of the innovation theory in architectural design. Based on the Innovation, Innovative Thinking, Cognitive Psychology, and Extenics, the dissertation researches the noumenon, subject, object method, and carrier of the innovative thinking in architectural design systemically.Research on noumenon of innovative thinking in architectural design studies the basic theory on the basis of Innovation and Innovative Thinking. It opens out the meaning of the innovative thinking in architectural design; analyzes the characteristic of innovative thinking in architectural design, including reflection, transcendence, practice, relativity and dialectics; explains the operational rule of the three stages of innovative thinking in architectural design, including the preparation stage, conception stage and consummation stage.Research on subject of innovative thinking in architectural design investigates the subject from the perspective of Cognitive Psychology and Macro-evolution, constructs the soft and hard structure model of subject of innovative thinking in architectural design, divides the structure of the subject into soft structure and hard structure for mastering the operational rule of it clearly. It indicates the obstacles of innovative thinking in architectural design, the interior ones consist of majority-trend set, authority set, tradition set, worship at foreign country set, experience set, and book set; the exterior ones consist of educational environment, culture environment, and system environment. Understanding the negative function of the obstacles and trying to conquer them, thus we can think outside the box, open up the thinking path.Research on object of innovative thinking in architectural design constructs the conjugate relation model of object of innovative thinking in architectural design on basis of the conjugate analysis In Extenics. Architectural function, form, and technology are taken as the hard parts; the relations relevant to the hard parts are taken as the soft parts. The hard parts and the soft parts are interdependent, harmonious, and both of importance; hard parts are the carrier of the soft parts, he soft parts provide the foundation to the hard parts. Therefore, architects should wise up the relations and pursue the right innovative direction in choosing the object. Research on method of innovative thinking in architectural design constructs the double-layer model of the method of innovative thinking in architectural design according to the systematic theory, divides the method into deep structure and surface structure. It indicates that the deep structure consists of logical thinking and non-logical thinking, the surface structure consists of a series of thinking modes, including divergent thinking and convergent thinking, seeking common thinking and seeking difference thinking, positive thinking and reverse thinking, single-dimensional thinking and multi-dimensional thinking. Deep structure determines and generates the surface structure, the surface structure reflects and retroacts to the deep structure. The principles and the application rules form the operable method system. It will bring more innovative achievements to the architectural design that we get hold of the deep structure, culture the logical thinking and non-logical thinking abilities, develop the surface structure, master and expand multiform thinking mode.Research on carrier of innovative thinking in architectural design discusses the application rules,between the subject and the carrier. The subject reins the carrier to achieve the architectural innovative design, the carrier criteria regularize and restrict the subject. Applying these rules will further exert the subject's abilities and fulfill the whole process of the innovative thinking successfully.In conclusion, the reaearch constructs the theory system of the innovative thinking in architectural design primarily through cross multi-disciplinary research; obtains some achievements in characteristic research, process research, subject research, object research, methos research, and carrier research of the innovative thinking in architectural design.