PORTFOLIO
GONGQI WEI
Architecture - 2024 Summer
3 - 4
PLANNING
HKU Thesis - 2020 Spring
5 - 9
GARDEN
GSD MLA - 2024 Fall
10 - 13
INFRASTRUCTURE
GSD MLA - 2024 Spring
14 - 19
METABOLISM
GSD MLA - 2023 Fall
20 - 23
HOUSING
HKU MArch Thesis - 2023 Spring
24 - 27
MUSEUM
HKU MArch - 2022 Spring
28 - 30 HOTEL
HKU MArch - 2021 Fall 31 - 33
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 Generate
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
Shortlisted winner in the international competition by Buildner, 2024
Negotiating With Ethno-Ecology:
Landscape Management Strategies for Northern Laos’s Ecotourism Boom
Precision is the conformity to certain rules and can only exist in the hegemonism of a singular worldview.
- PLANNING -
Lu, Xiaoxuan & Kelly, Ashley Scott
Landscape Thesis 2020 Spring
The University of Hong Kong
Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Author: Wei, Gongqi William
Award: HKU Public Review 2020
Publication: Kelly, A. S., & Lu, X. (2021). Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative. Singapore: Springer.
Today’s cultural tourism is a fragmented display of signifiers, a discriminating break of the indigenous, and an indifferent journey for tourists. Behind all these homogenized culture representations, we are aware of a larger system imposed on a larger geography that constantly sustains the cultural landscape and it is greater than any tourism developers want to provide. The territory of culture is much larger than what we designers are aware of.
This project redefines the culture territory and proposing a landscape management system based on different ground conditions and simultaneously maximizing the tourism capacity, translating the introverts’ perception of their land to the extrovert view of culture landscape by revealing the capacity and expanding the territory that challenges the predominant value system of the landscape.
Ethno-Ecological Landscape Structure of Mandan Village Worshipping Water
Material and Energy Exchange between Water and Dai People’s Livelihood
Foodshed & Culturalshed Derived from the Ethno-Ecological Activities of Dai People
Predicting the Deviation of Nam Ha National Protected Area in Laos from the Cultureshed Derived from Khmu People’s Dependence on Shifting Cultivation of Rice
Negotiating for An Alternative Development Strategy between Calculated Tourism Capacity and Respect of Khmu’s Rice Culture and Landscape
Archipelago of Archaeology
What if we re-use idle excavation sites by creating temporary moving gardens?
- GARDEN -
Bas Smets
Landscape Studio 2024 Fall
Harvard GSD
Athens, Greece
Author: Wei, Gongqi
The New Domestic Sewerscape
Who are going to be responsible for the exceeding limits of centralized sewer treatment system that shaped the urban fabrics of the New England nowadays ?
- INFRASTRUCTURE -
Benedetto, Francesca
Landscape Studio 2024 Spring Harvard GSD
Charlestown, MA, USA
Author: Wei, Gongqi William
Mycelial Metamorphosis
What would the world be like after the depletion of petroleum?
- METABOLISM -
Mark, Heller
Landscape Studio 2023 Fall Harvard GSD Saugus, MA, USA
Author: Wei, Gongqi William
Frustrations of existing petroleum economy and oil-eating fungi as the trigger of system transformation
Dwelling with Precarity
What do we have to build when preponderant nature overthrow anything trying to be stronger than it?
- HOUSING -
Holohan, Donn
MArch Thesis 2023 Spring
The University of Hong Kong
Davao City, Philippines
Author: Wei, Gongqi William
Dezeen School Shows 2023
https://www.dezeen. com/2023/11/24/university-ofhong-kong-architecture-dezeenschoolshows/
Soft, Sacrificial, and Design-to-Break System that Enables the Building to Take Over, Absorb, and Survive from Preponderant Natural Forces
Settling the Drifted
A misconception of precisely selecting the site as a necessity of design and planning narrows down the potential of a project.
MUSEUM -
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.
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.