OCAP

we film architecture

Werkhof L.57 for Sauerbruch Hutton, 2020. See the full Movie here.

Amtsgericht Nürnberg (ZILA)

Neues Amtsgericht Nürnberg by ZILA architects. Documentation of the Building-process, 2018 — 2020

OCAP I, Book, Edition of 60, 56 Pages, various Formats, 2019

Samples

Samples, OCAP, 2017 — 2025

See the full Video of Futurium by Richter & Musikowski architects here

Mediathek Burg Giebichenstein (ZILA)

Mediathek Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle by ZILA architects, 2019

Lokdepot by Robert Neun Architects, 2020. See the full video here

Freiheits und Einheitsdenkmal

Freiheits- und Einheitsdenkmal Leipzig. by Bea Meyer Michael Grzesiak, ZILA (Dirk Lämmel, Alexej Kolyschkow, Tobias Eussne, Clemens Zirkelbach). Documentation of the buildingprocess, Opening ceremony, 2025.

Ocap is Jakob Argauer and Florian Merdes. Our educational background is in fine art photography, which we studied at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Germany. The collaboration, established as Ocap in 2017, works on behalf of architects, city planners and architectural theorists. For quite some time in our artistic practices we have been committed to an architectural discourse, visiting and photographing some of the most diverse buildings worldwide. These theoretical explorations and experiences drive our high creative and technical standards.

Our aim, above all, is to produce the best representation of architecture. If one is to regard architecture itself as visual art, photography is the medium best suited to its depiction. There are some challenges: often there is a lack of atmosphere in architectural photography, which is only formed by context. Weather, light, a stretch of road or a field, the view along the horizon or a narrow street - all these details contribute significantly to the impression and experience of a building.

We consider these details and experiences in our photographic practice. How can a building be newly assembled through images, without being captured in its entirety in a single image? We do this by concentrating on the following parts of the architectural process: the construction of the building, its environment, its use and ageing, and the atmospheric presence. The architecture is thus shown as a real object and made tangible. Instead of an assumed objective representation of architecture, we allow space for subjectivity, so that this level of architectural experience can be visualised.

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