ABSTRACT
THE TOWN HALL IN ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN For the Town Hall in Alphen aan den Rijn (2003), in the Netherlands, architect Erick van Egeraat designed a fluid building form (figure 20.1). All components in this semiblobby building design have complex geometry. The building features frameless glass façades with a permanent decorative screening, for which the architect’s studio developed three different designs: the first was a mixture of trees and bamboo, based on a large number of silkscreen matrices; the second was composed of letters; and the third was based on tree leaves and petals. In all three designs, each individual glass panel featured a different screen pattern, which required a highly individual industrial production – customization in “lots of one.”
