Publications

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Books

Bio-spatial Tectonics

Published in Design Mycelium: Exploring the Design Potential of Fungi (Routledge) [forthcoming], 2025

A book chapter examining bio-spatial tectonics in the context of mycelium-based design, exploring the design potential of fungi within architectural and material design frameworks.

Recommended citation: Beckett, R., Whiteside, C., & Wei, H. (2025). Bio-spatial Tectonics. In Crawford, A., & Dessi-Olive, J. (Eds.), Design Mycelium: Exploring the Design Potential of Fungi. Routledge. [forthcoming]

Conference Papers

Environmental-driven Making: Clay 3D Printing Instructed by Airflow Data

Published in CAAD Futures 2025, Hong Kong University, 2025

This paper is developed primarily using Houdini, where CFD data continuously informs the generation of geometry, tool paths, and 3DP instructions. A customized slicing tool and G-code generator are implemented to produce G-code programs responsive to CFD data. Unlike conventional 3DP practices, this integrated approach enables the production of environmentally responsive surface textures, establishing a continuous link between environmental factors, design generation, and digital fabrication.

Recommended citation: Wei, H., Colletti, M., & Beckett R. (2025). Environmental-driven Making: Clay 3D Printing Instructed by Airflow Data. CAADFUTURES 2025. https://doi.org/10.25442/hku.29350490.v1
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Probiotic Design Interventions for The Indoor Microbiome

Published in Towards Integrative Design Symposium, Innsbruck University 2025, 2025

this study integrates computational design methods to facilitates the conceptualization of probiotic surface design interventions. It develops a probiotic ceramic tiling system whereby environmentally informed toolpaths, textures and geometrical articulations, act as niches to support probiotic microbial communities based on computational design.

Recommended citation: Wei, H., Scott, W., Hoenerloh, A., Leyton Dominguez, A., Nair, S., & Beckett, R. (2025). Probiotic Design Interventions for The Indoor Microbiome. Cambridge Open Engage. doi:10.33774/coe-2025-pzt7t-v2 This content is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed.
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Programming bilayer structures in 4D-printed hygromorphs by tailoring porosity in macroscale

Published in CAADRIA 2025, Tokyo University, 2025

The study investigates the impact of macroscale porosity on deformation in 4D-printed hygromorphic bilayer structures, focusing on applications in building envelopes.

Recommended citation: Liu, Y., Wei, H., Colletti, M., & Grigoriadis, K. (2025). Programming bilayer structures in 4D-printed hygromorphs by tailoring porosity in macroscale. Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA).
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Environmental-driven Massing Based on Machine learning

Published in DC I/O 2025, 2022

This article provides an overview of a generative framework embedded with a ML approach to apply CFD in building design, finally results on a building massing with a balanced wind environment at the early stage of architectural design.

Recommended citation: Wei, H., Adilenido, Y., & Beckett R. (2022). Environmental-driven Massing Based on Machine learning. Design Computation Input/Output 2022. https://doi.org/10.47330/dcio.2022.eqad1156
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Hangchuan Wei