Technical University, Eindhoven

Year:	2001
Location:	Eindhoven
Architect:	Koen van Velsen
Designer:	Koen van Velsen
Client:	Heijmans Bouw
Project type:	architecture
Product:	masonry brick with nickel and aluminium glaze.

At the Technical University in Eindhoven, the seven-storey Knowledge Centre’s construction is in the form of a cylinder from which several segments have been removed. The architect Koen van Velsen approached Koninklijke Tichelaar to develop a glaze for the façade that looked like anodised aluminium. After at least a year’s experimentation, an entirely new glaze was developed that cannot be compared with any previously existing glaze. In the course of this process, a second glaze was also developed that looks similar to the metal nickel. By interspersing smooth bricks with the glaze among bricks with a rough surface, an effect is created that varies in appearance depending on the weather and time of day.