Ramon Weber

Computational design, sustainability, structural modeling, generative design, embodied carbon

Ramon Weber investigates how computational design methods and simulation tools can create more sustainable architecture. He completed his PhD at MIT in Building Technology, where he developed frameworks and automation tools for the design and analysis of low-carbon buildings. He is a graduate from ETH Zurich, the University of Stuttgart, and MIT’s Media Lab where he was a researcher at the Mediated Matter Group. He previously worked for Zaha Hadid Architects in London, and he was involved in projects across scales at the ZHA|CODE research group. His personal and professional work has been published and presented internationally in both scientific and design venues such as Nature X Humanity in SFMOMA, the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial in New York, and Ars Electronica, as well as the Journal Solar Energy, Building and Environment, 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, and ACADIA.

ARCH 150

MIT Presidential Fellowship

Scholar of the Norman Foster Foundation and the Rolex Institute, Madrid, Spain

Design-Stage Carbon Reduction Pathways for Steel Structures. Ramon E. Weber*, Juliana Berglund-Brown*, John Ochsendorf , Christoph Reinhart, Caitlin Mueller. “Proceedings of the IASS 2024 Symposium, Redefining the Art of Structural Design”, International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS). Zurich, Switzerland

Automated floorplan generation in architectural design: A review of methods and applications. Ramon Elias Weber, Caitlin Mueller, Christoph Reinhart. Automation in Construction, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2022.104385

Solar Exoskeletons – An integrated building system combining solar gain control with structural efficiency. Ramon Elias Weber, Caitlin Mueller, Christoph Reinhart. Solar Energy, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2022.05.048

Photon Mapping of Geometrically Complex Glass Structures: Methods and Experimental Evaluation. Ramon Weber, Christoph Reinhart, Neri Oxman. Building and Environment, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.106957

Generative Structural Design for Embodied Carbon Estimation.
Ramon Elias Weber, Caitlin Mueller, Christoph Reinhart. Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2020/21 and the 7th International Conference on Spatial Structures, 2021

Distributed Robotic Timber Construction – Designing of in-situ timber construction system with robot-material collaboration. Samuel Leder*, Ramon Weber*, Oliver Bucklin, Dylan Wood, Achim Menges. ACADIA Conference, Austin TX, USA, 2019 https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2019.510