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Taiwan has a wealth of bamboo material and bamboo craft talents. In recent years, bamboo design furniture from Taiwan received favorable reviews from all over the world. These bamboo furniture employed challenging bamboo craft techniques and explored the possibilities of bamboo as a material. Those designs showcased the flexibility of bamboo, without sacrificing the stability of the furniture, and were therefore more difficult in both development and production. Besides, bamboo furniture in Taiwan is mostly designed as one-off, experimental products, and still has a long way to go when it comes to mass production and serial development.In the field of architecture, designers found optimal proposals in mechanics and aesthetics by consulting structure system. Modern architecture solves mechanical problems with analysis by computer software. Furniture design can also be compared to micro-architecture. Therefore, this design attempts to apply structure system and structure analysis on the design and development of bamboo furniture, in order to achieve stability and flexibility in seating and to show the structural aesthetics of the bamboo craft. To make mass production more possible, an easier bamboo craft technique was employed. A Mechanical testing and design implementation was conducted to verify the theory.This design combines the linearity and diversity of architecture vector structure with the heat-bending bamboo tube craft, resulting in a bamboo craft structural unit, developing from the unit into series furniture, and highlighting the features and structural analysis of bamboo craft. With Chinese National Standards and the software Generative Structure Analysis, a structure analysis was conducted. Furthermore, Taguchi Design Method was employed for expanding and optimizing the structure. Mechanical testing showed that the structure was able to take 200(kg) of weight, and had a 10(mm) pre-elasticity.This way enhancing efficiency in the developing process and cutting costs. By design implementation, the designer gained a better understanding of bamboo craft and material, and proposed bamboo furniture designs that are more unique and easier to produce. Compared to traditional production methods that heavily relied on personal experiences, the data in the analysis process were all explicit knowledge, and can serve as references for future designers who attempt to adopt this development mode.
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