Norman Wei

Brick Bay Folly 2018

Collaborative Work with Kevin Ding, Kim Huynh, Cynthia Yuan

Exhibited at Mercury Plaza Show 2019

Part of Exhibition of The 5th Auckland Triennial.

Aging population is a significant issue in Christchurch. An urban retirement house is proposed to redevelop the ruin site of the St Luke’s Anglican Church. The project is designed as a new mode for aging care, which rejects the traditional mode of “suburban villages”, but fully embraces urbanism with an open design approach. 

Type: Design Proposal

Location: Christchurch, Aotearoa

This project imagines a future scenario in which environmental change has made life on some Pacific islands untenable and an autonomous district at Rangitaiki Plain, New Zealand has been reserved. This reservation is for the formation of a research­-based city: [ Pacific Autonomous District of Lomipeau] that utilises experimental making as a means to develop tectonics system which are both meaningful and responsive to the challenging future of the Pacific. In this city, working, researching and living are all parts of an experiment.

Interactive installation work at Rugby World Cup Fan Trial 2011. A collabrative work with David Duan, Liam Donovan and Tim Hogarth .

Type: Installation

Location: Auckland, Aotearoa

Selected drawing used in journal publication 30 Sep 2022 Ekistics and the new habitat (81)

The Garden of Paradise -

An illustrative work to envision Mughal emperor Shah Jahan's Unbuilt Tomb in Agra, India.

Concept Competition Entry in 2017.

Collaborative work with Udit Goyal,Franklin Gaspar and Ekta Rakholiya

This piece celebrates two of the most common architectural elements in everyday life: the door and the window.

A screen door and a circular window are presented as 1:1 elevations on each side of the lightbox, evoking scenes from an imagined Chinese garden. These architectural openings act as viewing apertures, inviting the audience into a visual narrative and creating a fictional interaction with the garden’s owner, Lady Mantis.

A proposal for a village community centre in Nepal.

Collaborative Work with Kevin Ding.

Concept Competition Entry for Oriental Bay Pavilion (Wellington, New Zealand) in 2018 .

Collaborative Work withJeffrey Chow and Tao Shen

In the first semester of 2012, I took a third year studio course led by Rewi Thompson and Judy Cockeram.

We focused extensively on the theme of the ‘meeting of two worlds,’ exploring how bilateral relationships can be expressed through architectural representation.

As the outcome of the studio, I reimagined the iconic Chung King Mansion as a public cultural space, establishing a connection between Nathan Road and Signal Mountain. The proposal introduces a double-skinned atrium within the monolithic structure, transforming both its character and function. This project also resonates with a brief yet meaningful period I spent living in Hong Kong.

This proposal is an experimental approach of using Polynesian architectural languages to design a number of heterotopias as  urban interventions to the Wellington parliamentary district. The heterotopias do not only provide a second layer of functions to the urban environment, but also politically challenge the post-colonial urban grid system.

Location: Wellington-Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara, Aotearoa

Model: Primo Huang

Photography: David St George

Venice Biennale 2016

An outcome of 8 day workshop at Archiprix 2017. Work exhibited as a part of Sao Paolo Biennale 2018. 

An Ecological Strategy proposal for an empty plot of land in Ahmadabad,. 

Team: Chitra Vishwanath (coordinator; India); Ali Karimi (Afghanistan); Ekta Rakholiya (India), Farhad Alavi (Afghanistan); Franklin Gaspar (Brazil); Gert-Jan Wisse (Netherlands); Giulia Fillipone (Italy); Mariana Casas (Mexico);Norman Wei (New Zealand/China); Riddhi Panchal (India); Udit Goyal (India).

Location: Ahmedebad, Inida

A proposal to insert a phantom intervention onto Porirua's water hollow, reconnecting people back to land and water.  

Concept Competition Entry - 2016

Concept Competition

Entered 2011 with Archithinks (Beijing) / Lu Weimeng

School Proposal for Tulum, Mexico - Shortlisted Competition Entry in 2019.

Collaborative Work with Kevin Ding

Research on Pacific Architecture.