A Study On The Ethical Of Dwellings

Align with the deep going of the housing system reforms, commercial dwellings of different standards emerged onto the market in a big quantity. On one hand, it fulfills the housing demands and elevates the living standards of common people. On the other hand, due to the driving of commercial profiting and the limited intellectual level of developers, a considerable amount of dwelling buildings have turned out to be architectural trash and become faults of urban development, which have been seriously criticized by aware intellectuals. Meanwhile, the conflict between unoccupied commercial dwellings in large quantities and people without a single room does exist. Chapter 1 points out where the problems of housing in current period lies.The solution does not only reply on several investigation sheets, on finding out the exact housing style demanded by the inhabitants and building dwellings following that style. These "settling troubles" can not be solved only by extra building square meters per person. Philosophical methodologies are need in analyzing and thinking.Architecture has always been tightly related to philosophy. Every big event in philosophy would have direct and deep influence on the orientation of architecture. Dwelling architecture is especially the case, more influenced by the social value, since it is directly related to individuals. Thus, research on the Ethical Functions (which mean that dwellings help to form up some common ethos) of dwellings, which are to direct the future of dwellings. Our dwellings should be able to tell us how to live in the current world.Ethical Functions of dwellings are a spiritual significance, a public function and a value orientation. To modern human beings, senses of non-belonging of space and fears of time are the difficulties of settling. Thus dwellings are needed to settle them, to grant them homes, in order to withstand the harassment by space and time on their hearts. These are Ethical Functions of Dwellings. They help us to find values and orientation of present life and they have the sole value of space and time. Only this kind of dwellings is dwellings for settling. Thus it embodies the common ethos of our present society.Content in Chapter 2 to Chapter 6, based on relationships between dwelling buildings and time, space and emotion, by evolving some viewpoints of Heidergger, illustrates the relationship between dwellings and the nature and demand of settling, and extracts the ethical functions of dwellings.Our settlement is always developing forwards, therefore thinking on ethical functions of dwellings is thinking on future of dwellings. The last chapter turns back from the study on world outlook to methodology, and prospects the future tendency of real estate market in China.