| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 設計研究所 === 100 === Most of the products we use in daily lives are the result of mass production and automation. Those products surly are less pricy and more functional; however, there is a lack of interactions and emotions between users and products. On the other hand, due to the limited living space in our city, a product had better be more flexible for moving and storing. Therefore, "transformable products" found their niche and started to show up in markets.
This project, starting from defining "transformable products", discovering the transformations of natural creatures and the non-static architecture, is a journey of discovering how a designer can contribute to the territory that has not explored thoroughly.
By gathering the information of how transformable products works from ways of operation and rules in mechanical kinetics, studying projects featured with transformability and understanding the way of their transforming and the design principles, we may see the clues of how transformable products interact with users. The principles and ways of transforming are the backbone and reference for this practice-based research.
The results of this research reveal another dimension in transformable products based on the three-stage framework. They are notifying design targets, finding ways of transform, and lastly applying them to real production. Projects shown in this research represents the design intention of switching function, form transformation, and creative assembly respectively.
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