




Project Partners
Richard Rogers
Su Rogers
Date
1968-1969
Client
Dr and Mrs Rogers
Location
London, UK
Gross Floor Area
257 m²
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.
Awards
1967Represented British Architecture at Paris Biennale
Date
1968-1969
Client
Dr and Mrs Rogers
Location
London, UK
Area
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
Team
Pierre Botschi
John Doggart
Ingrid Morris
Richard Rogers
Su Rogers
Richard Russell
John Young
Project Partners
Richard Rogers
Su Rogers