OBSERVATION
When flood is happening, people figure out many ways to prevent themselve from drowning. They catch planks, plastic bottles or anything that can float on water and turn them into a buoy apparatus. Since most components that they use to make a buoy apparatus are furniture from the house, this gives me a chance to research what kinds of furniture can be a component or a functional buoy apparatus.
MARKET
RESEARCH Emergency
Multi-function
Safety
Connection
Flexibility
Safety
Flexibility
Multi-function
SWOT
ANALYSIS
OPPORTUNITIES
WEAKNESSES emergency situation flexibility limited capacity
STRENGTHS colorful convenience various products suit for different conditions
W
S O T THREATS hydraulic engineering scubagear
Safety Emergency Multi-function Connection Flexibility
It is the most important event that the buoyant apparatus must be strong enough to prevent from broken. In a serious flood, victims don’t have much time to escape, so the buoyant apparatus requires no adjustment or preparation to use. Flood is not a nomal condition. If people buy a buoyant apparatus, it would take up space in a house. Therefore, I suggest it can be multi-function. In the surbuban, it is so wide that rescue workers are hard to find the victims. So, the connection to other people is crucial in a serious flood disaster. When flood is happening, everything floats on the water and it is in a mass. The buoyant apparatus must be flexible for different situations.
CONCEPT Catch the dining table and bed in the house
When flood is happening, we can see lots of furniture floating on the water, and they are a kind of security tool. After my obsevation of all kinds of furniture in a house, I found that a dining table or a bed can be used as a life boat beacuse its large surface can accomadate people and they are strong enough to save more life. To buy a lifeboat and put it in the house is expensive and may take up space, so I want to design a product which can integrate with dinning table and bed. Also, this product is multi-functional, thus it
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