Team
Michael Clapp
Founder/Architect
Meric Ozgen
Project Facilitator/Contributor
Past Contributors
Teagan Dorsch
Mohamad Berry
SCHEMATA | studio
SCHEMATA | studio is an architectural design practice focused on how people experience and understand the spaces around them. Initiated by site and context, our process explores the harmonious balance between the function of spaces and the textural qualities that imbue them with meaning.
We approach a wide range of design questions, from the intimate to the large-scale. With deep interests in material qualities and spatial sequence, SCHEMATA treats every project as a unique exercise in exploring the ways people perceive and engage with their surroundings.
Many of our projects grow out of research and experimentation. Ultimately, SCHEMATA seeks to connect ideas with experience—to create spaces that are thoughtful, meaningful, and engaging.
SITE [INFINITELY] UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Michael Clapp founded SCHEMATA | studio to pursue a meaningful practice of design through residential and commercial architecture, art production and fabrication, and graphic design explorations. He graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Architecture from University of Tennessee Knoxville, and a Master of Architecture with Distinction from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He became a registered architect in North Carolina in 2013. He has taught architecture studio courses at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and has been invited to participate on numerous design critic juries at various institutions.
Recent Press
Arts Council of Greater Greensboro
Artist Support Grant Awardee
‘LEAP: Artists Imagine Outer Space’
GreenHill Gallery for NC Artists
O’Henry Magazine
Awards/Recognition
LEAP: Artists Imagine Outer Space
Selected Artist
Constant/Change Juried Exhibition
Selected Artist
Our process drives the unique solutions produced from challenges of the built environment, large and small.
i
deciphering/excavating
SCHEMATA | studio delves deeply into the contextual basis of each project. An understanding of the underlying forces at work within, around and on a certain site is critical to initiating an intervention, however large in scope.
TIME
ii.
framing
A frame is not only a structural tool to aid in shaping space, but also that through which we view the built environment. Consideration through framing provides an intimate specificity to each project we engage.
SPACE
iii.
articulating
There is poetry in the translation of technical dimensions and orthography into the phenomena of experience. Schemata | studio crafts stories through architecture - ones which reveal histories and chart new pathways.
POETRY