Amazing Transformation of Futuristic Apartment!
´Transformer Apartment´ is coming
 
There is a saying that woman´s transformation is innocent. However, not only woman´s but also anybody´s transformation should be innocent. I think that change, transformation are the words that made a great contribution in realizing humankind´s imaginations. The word that naturally comes to my mind in so doing is ´Transformer´. which is mostly known as a title for the blockbuster movie from Hollywood now. In fact, the transformer was initially a name for the toy robot. It was one of the transforming toys I used to play with in my childhood. Its domain was expanded into an animation and then a movie as well.

Bumblebee appearing in the movie ´Transformer´. which is a robot transformed into a car  ´Camaro´
Source: Naver Movie

Now, it´s not just a robot that is transformed. Our residential spaces are transformed as well. To name it, it´s Transformer Apartment! There is a person who designs and builds a house so that a space may be transformed like this. His name is Gary Chang who is a Architectural designer of Hong Kong. Let´s take a look at how Gary Chang´s house is transformed.

Apartment that doesn´t need to be wide

Gary Chang´s super-mini apartment is used for multi-purposes as it says. You almost don´t feel that you need to have a large space. The wall between bookcases or closets are overlapped like an accordion. New spaces are hidden in a spa space with a bath tub, and between bookshelves with CD´s and books. With installation of a mirror in the ceiling, the space was made to look spacious. As you may find upon looking at the pictures below, the power of ideas has appropriately infiltrated through the space making you to be marveled. There was a story behind his building such house. 

This shows the designer Gary Chang who is enjoying comfortable reading of books in his house
Source: yossawat.com

In his childhood, he had no room of his own. In a very small apartment not even as large as 10 pyeong, there lived 7 people including his family and a boarder in his 20´s. He had to try to fall asleep in a long and narrow living room while lying down uncomfortably. So the boy Gary Chang made a small foldable bed that he could hide behind a sofa in daytimes and take out to lie on at night times.  In his neighborhood, there were many super-mini stores of about 50 cm in width, as primarily common people lived. Since such stores could not sell the articles only inside the room, they had to spread out in front of their stores. From such scenes, Gary Chang witnessed ´expansion of the space´. Gary Chang could get rather fresh ideas about space utilization because of such narrow spaces. Would he have known himself that the foldable bed designed in his childhood would develop into a transformer apartment later?

Bathroom and closet. It´s a space hidden inside the wall like an accordion / Source:yossawat.com

 
Now, we will take a full-pledged look at the transformation of the house that Gary Chang currently lives in. By pulling a handle on a TV forward, the wall on which the TV is hung moves. A kitchen hiding behind the wall now appears. It´s equipped even with a refrigerator and a mini bar. What´s amazing is that the space here has an area of not even 33m²(10 pyeong). 

Gary Chang´s house is called by its nickname of ´ Domestic Transformer´. Moving wall, foldable furniture, new spaces showing up by pushing the wall, etc. are just astonishing. Depending on how to move the walls, a total of 24 different spaces are said to appear. the blind installed to block the sunlight may be used as a screen to watch movies on, while the shower booth with mounting of fancy lighting is turned into a DJ box for hosting a house party. It makes you feel that the house itself resembles just a puzzle or a cube. I´d like to name it as ´Gary Land´. 

Gary Chang is said to have made his own house as an experimental place to realize his own architectural ideas. He says to have renovated a house for 4 times during the past 25 years. Although some may wonder why all those troubles when he could just move to a larger house, he made ´transformation´ possible through rediscovery of such spaces. 

Inside of the apartment. By opening the wall, a new space appears / Source: yossawat.com

As Gary Chang participated in construction of ´ Suitcase House ´ which is a high-class hotel complex in the neighborhood of the Great Wall near Beijing in China, he started gaining the global attention. While the suitcase house looks like a long box from outside, it is a house that may be stood up like a wall by lifting each part of the floor, or where a bedroom, study and kitchen appears in the 0.5-story space beneath it. After this, Gary Chang is engaged in such works, giving people realization on the spaces. Living room can be changed to a bedroom as well as to a kitchen, while a guestroom hidden in the partition may be discovered with the kitchen being transformed to a bathroom, with all of these being made possible only by him.

 Global attention is being directed to a designer who produced transforming spaces
Source : archdaily.com
 
 

Conversion of Thinking, Transformation of Thinking 
 
Transforming robots such as the Transformer are the contents support for which by the males is conspicuous. That´s probably because it stimulates the childhood of the boys who became adults. Now that the boys who grew up assembling the robots have become the adults who are enthusiastic with car, a great popularity will result if they find that they can change the spaces at their wills. 

Designs by Gary Chang who realized spatial transformations by conversion of thinking
Source: dgdesignnetwork.com.au

While looking at Gary Chan´s apartment, a thought occurred to me that we can experience the wonderful new world through conversion of our thinking. If you have troublesome problems around you, then try to take a look at the problems with application  of diverse viewpoints. You never know whether the problem may be transformed to bring you pleasure and happiness.