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Nicolai Schlapps (Dipl.-Ing.)
Research Assistant
n.schlapps@tu-braunschweig.de
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Nicolai Schlapps is an architectural designer and researcher living in Berlin, Germany.

As a founding member of PINKCLOUD.DK , ANICOWORKING and SUPER TEAM CLUB his key qualifications are concept and strategy development. His research-driven approach that combines varying disciplines and interconnects between diverse fields leads to unique and unusual solutions. Believing in teamwork and by connecting the dots, his input enriches the work in all scales from architecture to urban planning, experimental designs to art. This strategy led to a scholarship for his diploma project by the Helmut Hentrich Foundation and various winning projects for PINKCLOUD.DK, Henning Larsen Architects, Copenhagen and Barkow-Leibinger, Berlin.

Since 2016 Nicolai is holding a research and teaching position at the TU Braunschweig University of Technology at the IMD Institute of Media and Design focusing on information transformation processes and conceptual thinking.

“Information Transformation + Reverse Modeling” uses reverse engineering strategies and experimental concepts that oscillate between drawing and modeling, analog and digital, researching and field mapping to uncover and expose forces and energies that define, form and transform urban situations.

“Information Based Concepts + Big Data in Architecture” puts the act of research, collection and connection of data to information and information graphics as the starting point of architectural projects that focus on concept development and strategic thinking.

“Information Technology + Augmented Realities” uses computational components, digital tools, the internet and multi-media installations as well as augmented reality goggles to inform space with real-time data to experimentally research the overlay, intersection and multiplication of physical space with the digital realm.

Research + Teaching

Information Transformation + Reverse Modeling

Hybrid Narrations | Berlin | 2023
Supermodels | Braunschweig | 2022
Elevated Dissections | Braunschweig | 2022
Spaces of Power | Berlin Government District | 2021
Power of Spaces | Braunschweig | 2021
Borders Crossing Borders | Grenzen und Grenzüberwindungen | Belgrade Serbia 2021
Spaces of Opinion | Meinungsräume | Leipzig + Braunschweig | 2020
Outrage Space | outrage space | Braunschweig | 2020
Interrail Eastern Europe Speculative Narrations | Eastern Europe | 2020
Interrail Eastern Europe Travel Guide| Eastern Europe | 2020
Mapping Myspace - covid19 realities | Various Locations | 2020
NEUXKÖLLN EXHIBITION | CLB Berlin | 2020
• Patch Work Neukölln | Berlin | 2020
• Hybrid Objects Hermannplatz | Berlin | 2019
• Diagrammatic Dissections Hermannplatz | Berlin | 2019
• Cut And Sew Hermannplatz | Berlin | 2019
Reverse Architecture Chemnitz | Chemnitz | 2019
Spatial Informa(p)tions 2 | Berlin Mediaspree | 2019
Spatial Informa(p)tions | Berlin Moritzplatz | 2018
Information Space 2 | Berlin Ostbahnhof | 2018
Information Space | Berlin Central Station | 2017
Hybrid Processes 2 | Berlin Infrastructure | 2017
Hybrid Processes | Berlin Infrastructure | 2016
Enter the Void | Berlin Alexanderplatz + Kulturforum
 | 2015

Information Based Concepts + Big Data in Architecture
• Democratic Data Center A100 (Master Thesis) | Berlin | 2023
Lib686 - Library + Urban Hub (Master Thesis) | Cologne | 2022
Lib686 - Library + Urban Hub | Cologne | 2022
Atlantikwall (Free Master Thesis) | Caen / Le Havre | 2022
Zeche Zollverein Museum of Photography (Bachelor Thesis) | Essen | 2022
EXPO2021 Transformation | Hannover | 2021
Allotment Garden Berlin (Free Master Thesis) | Berlin | 2020
Silk Road Duisburg (Free Master Thesis) | Duisburg | 2019
Yellow Tower Hildesheim (Free Master Thesis) | Hildesheim | 2019
ZKM Berlin 01 (Master Thesis) | Berlin | 2019
ZKM Berlin 02 (Master Thesis) | Berlin | 2019
European Hub Inden (Free Master Thesis) | Inden | 2019
Wuppertal Reloaded (Free Master Thesis) | Wuppertal | 2018
In.Form the Void | Berlin | 2017
Info.Tecture | Berlin | 2017
Transforming TXL (Free Master Thesis) | Berlin | 2017

Connecting the Dots | Berlin | 2016

Information Technology + Augmented Realities

Spatial Information | AR Lab Microsoft Hololens | 2018
Augmented Realities | AR Lab Microsoft HoloLens | 2018
Cyber Space Modulators | Arduino + Processing
 | 2017
Hello Robot | Universal Robot UR10 Industrial Robot
 | 2017
Robot Wire Bender | Universal Robot UR10 Industrial Robot | 2017

CV – University Research + Teaching


• Research Assistant IMD Institute of Media and Design | TU Braunschweig | since 2015

• Research Lecturer IMD Institute of Media and Design | TU Braunschweig | 2014-2015
• Student Tutor IEX Institute for Experimental Design | TU Braunschweig | 2012-2013

• Student Tutor IEB Institute for Building Design | TU Braunschweig | 2010-2012
• Student Tutor IMD Institute of Media and Design | TU Braunschweig | 2005-2010

• Visiting Critic ILA Institute of Landscape Architecture | TU Braunschweig | 2022
• Visiting Critic ILA Institute of Landscape Architecture | TU Braunschweig | 2021-2022
• Visiting Critic DE/CO Entwerfen und Baukonstruktion Summerschool | TU Berlin | 2021

CV – Offices


• SUPER TEAM CLUB | Berlin | Founding Partner | since 2022
• SQUAREONE | Copenhagen | Senior Architect | since 2019
ANICOWORKING | Berlin | Founding Partner | since 2017
PINKCLOUD.DK | Berlin, New York, Toronto | Founding Partner
 | since 2011
• B–L Barkow Leibinger | Berlin | Architect + Competition Architect
 | 2015-2016
• Freelance Competition Architect | Berlin | 2013-2015
• HL Henning Larsen | Copenhagen | Competition Architect

 | 2011

Keynotes


• REVERSE MODERNISM (Workshop Young Heritage) | TU Braunschweig University | Braunschweig Germany | 2023

• REVERSE ARCHITECTURE | FUAS Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences | Frankfurt Germany | 2022

• COMPLEX REALITIES ft. Anika Neubauer | EASA Serbia | 2021

• URBAN COMMENTS ft. Anika Neubauer | TU Berlin University | Berlin Germany | 2021

• NEUXKÖLLN CITY TOUR ft. Anika Neubauer + Prof. Dr. Saskia Hebert | CLB Berlin | Berlin Germany | 2020

• MODELS (WHERE ARE WE NOW? Guest Lecture) | TU Braunschweig University | Braunschweig Germany | 2019

• SISU Symposium of Interior Architecture and Spatial Use – Naked Space | Lucerne Switzerland | 2017
• Hospitality.Next Symposium | Athens Greece | 2013
• Radical Innovation in Hospitality | Las Vegas USA | 2013



Prizes


• Helmut Hentrich Scholarship
 for Outstanding Final Year Projects 2013
• 1st Prize Radical Innovation in Hospitality 2013 (w/ PINKCLOUD.DK)

Links

NICOLAI-SCHLAPPS.COM
PINKCLOUD.DK
ANICOWORKING

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