CJ KWEON

Changjin Kweon (CJ Kweon) is an architectural designer and urban systems researcher examining how data can become a public architectural medium rather than an invisible instrument of urban management. He was awarded AA Diploma Honours at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 2026. His work focuses on the point at which transport operations, collective behaviour, environmental conditions, and public space become one architectural problem.

His Diploma project, Pulse Logic, transforms the threshold of Nine Elms Underground Station into a non-commercial civic interior and a public interface for collective urban data. Arrival waves, crowd density, dwell, heat, and movement are translated into shifting conditions of ventilation, light, enclosure, and occupation. Instead of using data to direct public life from above, the project makes the city’s changing state legible through architecture, allowing people to wait, move, gather, or invent other responses. The loop closes when public behaviour becomes part of the next architectural state.

Computation is not treated in his work as a visual style or an autonomous design author. It is an operational method for testing relationships between data ownership, public agency, and spatial change. Through custom data pipelines, machine learning, simulation, environmental analysis, and interactive prototyping, Kweon investigates transport infrastructure as public space, data as a civic asset, and architecture as an adaptive form of urban care.

He previously worked in architectural practices in Seoul, contributing to conceptual development and early-stage design. He currently lives and works between London and Seoul.