Daliana Suryawinata and Florian Heinzelmann of SHAU

The Department of Architecture welcomes Daliana Suryawinata and Florian Heinzelmann, co-founders of SHAU. Florian and Daliana will present their recent works that demonstrate a 'socio-climatic' design strategy tailored to the local Indonesian context. The socio-climatic concept revolves around a reciprocal relationship between human activities that influence the climate and, conversely, how the climate of a particular area impacts potential human interactions. SHAU's goal is to encourage user engagement and activities by enabling comfortable and welcoming spaces while minimizing negative impacts on the climate. Some of SHAU's multi awarded projects include the microlibraries constructed from 2000 upcycled ice cream buckets Bandung and FSC-crtified wood with a play feature in Semarang, public squares of diverse scales featuring a variety of programs in West Java, a recently completed Tasikmalaya creative center, and an ongoing 1200-seat performing arts center in Jakarta.

SHAU is an award-winning architectural and urban design practice founded by architect couple Daliana Suryawinata (ID) and Florian Heinzelmann (DE) in the Netherlands and Indonesia - together with Tobias Hofmann (DE) operating in Germany. Before establishing SHAU, Florian and Daliana studied at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam and worked at UNStudio, OMA, MVRDV, West8, and TU Delft before teaching and researching at TU Delft and TU Eindhoven, where Florian obtained his Ph.D.

SHAU is known for its performance-driven environmental and societal design agenda. Their exceptional work has won them numerous awards, including Good Design Award Japan 2023, an ArchDaily Building of the Year 2021 Award in the Public & Landscape category, three Architizer A+ Awards in 2017 & 2020, a shortlist for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2019, a Holcim Silver Award Asia-Pacific in 2017, and a Firm of the Year from the American Architecture Prize in 2017.

SHAU's projects are characterized by a fusion of tropical architecture, community interests, passive climatic design strategies, and material experimentation into novel multi-programmatic typologies. So far, they have realized key public projects in Indonesia: a 9,300 square meter multi-ethnic student housing in Surabaya which was inaugurated by president Joao Widodo recently, public space projects in West Java from Taman Film (Film Park) under a flyover in Bandung, Alun-alun Cicendo in Bandung, Alun-alun Kejaksan in Cirebon, and several projects for the New Capital of Indonesia. SHAU initiated the Microlibraries, which are a series of contextually designed, low-cost, and environmentally friendly reading facilities under 250m2. They have successfully completed seven projects, with new ones in the pipeline. Additionally, they are currently working on Jakarta's new Performing Arts Center, among other projects for private and public clients.

Florian is an Associate Professor in Practice at the National University of Singapore, Department of Architecture. Daliana is an Asia Pacific jury member for the 2023 Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction.

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