傳統建築受限於構法，必須設計為厚實的形體抵抗來自於環境的外力對於建築強度與使用者安全的影響。但反觀自然界中同樣以固定根基佇立於地面上之植物，卻是以緩慢改變自身形態的方式，以順應外在環境之變化帶來不同的衝擊。
現今已有許多可與環境互動的建築案例，透過感測器、處理器、及制動器組成的系統，以改變自身形態之方式達到因應環境之變化，並促進室內空間品質。但為了推動尺度巨大的建築構造產生形態改變，往往在制動的過程中需要耗費極大的額外能源，不僅增加了支出花費，也是逐漸重視節能減碳的今日較為美中不足的部分。故本研究希望能提出降低額外耗能且較簡單之設備，達成建築構造可順應環境改變之設計概念。
環境無時無刻皆有隨機之外力對建築產生擾動，而這些不會衝擊建築之環境擾動力(ambient force)即為本研究達成降低可動構造耗能之關鍵。環境擾動包含建築受到環境中風、雨、地震、活載重、以及溫差產生熱漲冷縮……等效應，這些環境擾動力雖既隨機且微小，但放大到建築之尺度及長時間之累積，還是可以達成足夠之能量，並驅使建築構造之形態發生改變。
本研究藉由這些自然環境的隨機擾動，以細微作動累積或儲存能源之方式，使構造能於長週期的氣候變化中，如植物適時改變形態達到順應環境之目的，並分別提出水、溫差、與風之擾動力應用於可動構造上之設計方案，對應不同構造之功能，探討這些環境擾動力對於構造制動之方式與改變之週期。再藉由數位模型之建構，模擬設計之構造於不同氣候條件下形態之改變，並探討可能產生之問題及對應之方式。本研究針對構想之設計及模擬所提出之設計成果及檢討，期望可供後續實作測試及相關研究之經驗及參考。

Buildings was limited by construction methods, so architects usually design strong structure and fixed form to resist the external force from the environment for keeping safe. On the contrary, plants - just like buildings in nature, often transform themselves slowly to adapt to the environmental changes.
There are many kinetic structure cases appear these days. By using sensors, processors, and actuators, we can build up a system to interact with environment. They can change their form to adapt to the environmental changes and even provide indoor space with better quality. But it takes more energy to drive transforming process on huge scale building, it not only increase the extra expense but also violates the idea of sustainability. Therefore, we tries to propose the ideas of kinetic structure by using simple mechanism with less energy consumption to approach the concept of ambient-force-driven kinetic structure.
Buildings are impacted by the external forces from the environment all the time, these ambient forces could be wind, rain, earthquake, live-load, and thermal changes, etc. Ambient forces are random and tiny, so they always unapparent. But when these forces enlarged to greater scale like building with long-term accumulation, the energy can be big enough to drive those kinetic structures.
We try to design kinetic structures driven by ambient forces caused by water, thermal changes, and wind. We hope these ambient-force-driven kinetic structures can adapt to the environment in the long-term of climate change just like plants. And the digital models are built for simulating the form changing in different conditions to explore the solution of possible problems. The outcome of the study can be the reference resources for follow-up research or testing.

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