RSHP

Rogers House

Project Partners
Richard Rogers
Su Rogers

Project Partners
Richard Rogers
Su Rogers

Job Sheets
English
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Job Sheets
English
Français

Date
1968-1969

Client
Dr and Mrs Rogers

Location
London, UK

Overview

The house, commissioned by Richard Rogers’ parents, sits within a long and narrow wooded urban plot, opposite Wimbledon Common in South West London and adjoining a major road. It is designed to provide maximum privacy and seclusion, and consists of two separate elements facing on to an internal garden courtyard. The small unit houses the separate flat and pottery studio and acts as a sound barrier between the house and the road. Rogers describes the house as ‘a transparent tube with solid boundary walls’.

The steel structure is brought inside the skin to eliminate maintenance and to simplify junctions between structure and skin. Eight welded clear-span rigid portals fabricated in standard steel sections permit maximum demountability and the re-use of the enclosing envelope and internal partitions. Walls are composite panels of plastic-coated aluminium inner skins with foam plastic core and neoprene jointing system. Flexibility was a high priority and most internal partitions are moveable. Maximum sized, double-glazed, sealed units in painted steel frames have been used and glazed roofs, neoprene zipped and solar reflecting, enclose the bathrooms.

The house was Grade 2* listed in 2013, putting it in the top 8% of all listed buildings in England.

Data

Awards  
1967Represented British Architecture at Paris Biennale

Team
Pierre Botschi, John Doggart, Ingrid Morris, Richard Rogers, Su Rogers, Richard Russell, John Young

Project Partners
Richard Rogers
Su Rogers

 

Date
1968-1969

Location
London, UK

Gross Floor Area
257 m²

Project Architect
Richard + Su Rogers

Structural Engineer
Anthony Hunt Associates

Services Engineer
H Bressloff Associates

Quantity Surveyor
GA Hanscomb Partnership

Landscape Architect
Landscape Design Partnership

Data

Awards  
1967Represented British Architecture at Paris Biennale

Team
Pierre Botschi, John Doggart, Ingrid Morris, Richard Rogers, Su Rogers, Richard Russell, John Young

Date
1968-1969

Location
London, UK

Gross Floor Area
257 m²


Project Architect
Richard + Su Rogers

Structural Engineer
Anthony Hunt Associates

Services Engineer
H Bressloff Associates

Quantity Surveyor
GA Hanscomb Partnership

Landscape Architect
Landscape Design Partnership

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