Researchers from UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design (CED) Department of Architecture and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering's (CEE) Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials (SEMM) program have received the 2025 Tsuboi Award from the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) for the most outstanding paper presented at the IASS Annual Symposium in México City. The award recognizes the paper "Conformal 3D printing on bending-active formwork – exploring a new approach to the fabrication of wide-spanning structures." Led by Associate Professor Simon Schleicher from CED's Department of Architecture, the research introduces a novel fabrication technology that combines elastically bent timber strips with robotic concrete 3D printing to construct wide-spanning structures such as roofs and lightweight floor slabs. The interdisciplinary team includes Barrak Darweesh, Yasaman Yavaribajestani, Shaoyi Wang, Todd Zhou, and Lydia Moog. The team will receive the award at the IASS Symposium in Torino, Italy, in September 2026.
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