On The Innovation Of Housing Morphology

Housing is a basic function of the city, and its morphology represents the thoughts of the content in existence of human being. Also the innovation of housing morphology is a topic concerned by the world. During the process of urbanization, obviously, the most important issue to the development of the city is housing.Housing morphology is the compound of life and space which supplement each other. The continuity and abundance of life lead to the feature of multiple-scale and complexity of housing morphology. The innovation of housing morphology is the expression of people's creativity on the house construction. In essence, it's a dynamic and incoherent act of putting new concept into the system of housing and realizing its value. Hence its innovation is a complex process concerning both materiality and immateriality factors which needs the integral thinking. Innovation means to create new value, so the axiology is a basic matter, and its axiology of innovation should be people oriented and integral.The development of life is the radical drive of the innovation in housing, and to the direct drive, both the"from bottom to top"and"from top to bottom"are analyzed by its origin and feature. Acocording to the continuity, cooperation, generality and variety of choice, there are the mechanisms of succession, scaling, diffusion and game in the innovation of housing morphology which embodies the unification of innovation and development. By the mechanism of succession is meant to solve the problem between new and old, change or not by the choice and transform of typology. And to the scaling mechanism, its emphasis lies on the cooperation between different scales. The diffusion mechanism is an important step in the innovation because it is of help to the development of housing morphology by the diffusion of new concept. The fundamental cause of the game mechanism lies in the dynamic development and various needs of life style.The innovation of housing morphology is classified by the extent of innovation, typicality and continuity, hence bringing out the various types of innovation, in addition, the significance and enlightenment are explained. By the classification of incremental and radical innovation, the irregularity of housing morphology development is demonstrated; by the classification of typical and peculiar innovation, the difference between the importance to the society of different housing morphology is demonstrated; and by the classification of sustaining and disruptive innovation, it gives us the lesson to change our traditional mind or pattern and pay attention to the various needs of people. Based on the components of housing morphology, the approach of innovation is derivd by behavior, nature, society, culture and techonology. In addition, the thinking process of innovation is analyzed by formalization with the method of extenics.In the end, in order to use the theory to practice, according to the situation of our country, it is suggested to set up the innovation system of housing innovation which includes components, function and contempory issue. Also the framework of innovation strategy is set up from reason, institution and pattern of construction.