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Nicolai Schlapps (Dipl.-Ing.)
Deputy Head of the IMD Institute of Media and Design
Research Assistant and PhD Candidate
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.
As a PhD Candidate he currently reflects “Reverse Modeling – Hybrid Modeling Strategies in Architecture” – a topic he established with his research based teaching projects at the IMD.

“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 - Speculative Spaces | 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


• Deputy Head of the IMD Institute of Media and Design | TU Braunschweig | since 2022
• PhD Candidate at IMD Institute of Media and Design | TU Braunschweig | since 2021
• 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 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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