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GONGQI WEI
Generative Design of Modular Housing
Professional Project (2024 Summer): Real Estate Development Software
Generating different housing typologies
Fitting to irregularly shaped site boundary
Maximizing building coverage
Automatically distribute unit types
Generate Site Boundary Zoning Parcel Analysis
Program Structure
1_Automatic site preparation
2_Computing 2D CAD layouts
3_Generating detailed 3D models
Generating facade model
Automatically Assign materials
Caculating construction cost
Generating detailed 3D structure grid
Exporting building specifications
Distribute Apartment Typology
Norman Foster Foundation Kharkiv Housing Challenge
Project shortlisted (40/259) in the international competition organized by Buildner, 2024
Dwelling with Precarity
What do we have to build when preponderant nature overthrow anything trying to be stronger than it?
- STRUCTUREThesis for MArch (Design) 2023 Spring
Instructor: Holohan, Donn
Type: Thesis at HKU
Location: Davao City, Philippines
Resolution: 1:20
Author: Wei, Gongqi
Dezeen School Shows 2023
https://www.dezeen. com/2023/11/24/university-ofhong-kong-architecture-dezeenschoolshows/
Insid(t)e Junk
Technology enables us to design and plan efficiently.
Yet the more precisely a project is computed, it’s more distant from the reality.
- CITYUrbanism Studio 2022 Fall
Instructor: Wu, Kaicong
Type: Academic Project at HKU
Location: Hong Kong Resolution: 1:2500
Author: Wei, Gongqi (Author of all shown works in this section)
The Waste City Generated by Computational Design Algorithms, e.g. Wallacei & Circle Packing
Planning of An Artificial Island Driven by Ocean Waste Recycling
Negotiating Concerns of Hong Kong Citizens, Statistics of Ocean Current, Measures of Land Reclamation by Hong Kong Government, and Transportation Efficiency
Settling the Drifted
A misconception of precisely selecting the site as a necessity of design and planning narrows down the potential of a project.
- GALLERYUrbanism Studio 2022 Spring
Instructor: Cianchetta, Alessandra
Type: Academic Project at HKU
Location: Hong Kong
Resolution: 1:100 1:5000
Publication: 2023 HKU
Architecture Prospectus
Author: Wei, Gongqi
Floating Ateliers to Reuse, Mobilize, and Reproduce the Non-Places at the Waterfront as A Community of Hong Kong’s Native Art
Six piers along the Victoria Harbor plays their respective roles in the native art community. Rigid infrastructures, or to say the “non-places”, like pier, typhoon shelter, and overpass, are colonized as spatial prototypes. The floating atelier, taking advantage of the MOBILIT Y in the oceanic territory as a freedom-land, fuses the community by metamorphosing with the piers when it duplicates, disperses, and transplant s.
The Floating Atelier Transforms Derelict Structures into New Functional Spaces for the Native Art Community
Four fundamental spaces: foyer, cloister, workshop, and lodge are embedded in the floating atelier. It is AFFORDABLE for local artists to rent the ferry built by a native material system including bamboo, iron sheet, fabric, and batten. The stage receives eight ferries at the Central Pier 9 & 10, where 2 empty piers are often visited by tourists for a grand view of the harbor. This stage publicizes the local community who are usually unable to join large public art events like the art Basel due to organizational or economic reasons. Native artists can hold ART FESTIVALS on the rooftop and organize the event in the foyer of the ferry.
Bamboo Bathhouse
A will to pursue a precise form as a solution kills the humbleness of adaptation, whereas a generative prototype yield the possibility of negotiation.
- HOTELArchitecture Studio 2021 Fall
Instructor: Bolchover, Joshua & Holohan, Donn
Type: Academic Project at HKU
Location: Nepal
Resolution: 1:25
Publication: 2023 HKU Architecture Prospectus
Author: Wei, Gongqi
The Invisible Diagonals
When sight penetrates domestic space and connects all units as a whole, does it encourage or kill more social lives?
- HOUSINGArchitecture Studio 2021 Spring
Instructor: Lee, Anderson
Type: Academic Project at HKU
Location: Paris Resolution: 1:50
Publication: 2022 HKU
Architecture Prospectus
Author: Wei, Gongqi
Powder 3D Print with Used Coffee Ground. Material Exploration. 2022. Instructor:
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A Human-Ecological Reaction to WWF’s Use of Ecosystem Services Prediction of Infrastructure Planning in Myanmar.
Foreign Domestic Workers, Public Space, and the Negotiation of the Commons. Community Design Project. 2019. Instructor: Xiao, P at.