Florian Heinzelmann

Dr Florian Heinzelmann is a practicing architect with a license in the Netherlands. He obtained his doctorate from Eindhoven University of Technology titled ‘Design Method for Adaptive Daylight Systems for Buildings Covered by Large (span) Roofs’.

He is co-founder of SHAU in 2009 with offices in Rotterdam (NL), Passau (DE) and Bandung (ID). SHAU is an award-winning practice which received among others Archdaily Building of the Year Award, Architizer A+ Awards, LafargeHolcim Silver Award for the Asia-Pacific region, World Architecture Festival X Award, and a shortlist for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. SHAU is known for their Microlibraries which merge community and environmental design aspects, with material experimentation into novel multifunctional typologies. A central theme of SHAU’s work deals with investigation and application of passive climatic design strategies in tropical climates to facilitate communal activities. SHAU has realized several commercial, residential, public, masterplan, and large-scale public space projects, for private as well as public clients like the City of Jakarta and Bandung, the Province of West Java, and the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in The Hague and Berlin.

SHAU’s and Florian’s work has been widely exhibited and published for instance at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Design for Common Good at Denver Center for Visual Arts, and London Design Museum. Their works, writings and interviews have been featured in newspapers and architecture media around the world like El Pais, Der Spiegel, L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, Architectural Review, Monocle, Detail, FuturArc, Cubes, Indesignlive, Archinesia and books like Ecopuncture, The City at Eye Level Asia, Beyond the West: New Global Architecture, and Flourish: Design Paradigm for Our Planetary Emergency. Florian further contributed to academic publications for conferences, journals, and book chapters such as the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS), eCAADe, Fabric Structures in Architecture, Future Urban Habitation: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Conceptions, and Designs.

Prior to that Florian Heinzelmann has worked as project architect for UN Studio in Amsterdam between 2006-2009, as researcher and tutor at Delft University of Technology and project manager for their Solar Decathlon team in 2010. He received scholarships from DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) for studying at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam and CDG (Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft) for gaining working experience in Japan.