You can find us at the Department of Architecture in the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley, where we work in close collaboration with the Center for the Built Environment (CBE).
Team
Ramon Weber
Assistant Professor · Lab director
Ramon Weber founded the Spatial Systems Lab at UC Berkeley. He earned his PhD as a Presidential Fellow at MIT, where he developed methods for design automation and building simulation that leverage artificial intelligence in architecture. He holds degrees from the MIT Media Lab, the University of Stuttgart’s ITECH program and ETH Zürich, and worked at Zaha Hadid Architects in London. His personal and professional work has been published and presented internationally in both scientific and design venues, such as the Venice Architecture Biennale, SFMOMA, the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, and Ars Electronica, and published in Nature Communications, Automation in Construction, Solar Energy, and ACADIA.
Shaoyi Wang
PhD Student, UC Berkeley
Shaoyi Wang is a PhD student in Architecture at UC Berkeley, College of Environmental Design. Her work focuses on computational representations for architectural design, with particular interests in building adaptation and performance-informed design. She is also interested in developing design tools, interactive applications, and games as extensions of computational thinking in design. Before starting her Ph.D., Shaoyi completed her M.S. in Architecture at UC Berkeley and received her B.Arch. from Tsinghua University in 2023, with a minor in Psychology.
Also part of the lab
- Magnus Huber Visiting MS Student, TU Munich
- Małgorzata Kurcjusz-Gzowska Fulbright Visiting PhD Student
- Yihui Li Visiting PhD Student, Tsinghua University
Past collaborators
Rae Zhao (MArch) · Moritz Rietschel (BSTS MS) · Sizhong Qin (Visiting PhD Student, Tsinghua University) · Hongxi Pan (MDes) · Frederic Lam (MArch) · Yuhan Zhang (MArch) · Leah Mary Altman (MArch) · Zhuoer Chen (MArch) · Linc Ruiz-Truong (B.A. in Architecture) · Mia Wilson (B.A. in Architecture) · Sihyeok Yang (B.A. in Architecture)