Richard Rogers interview: Wimbledon house | Architecture | Dezeen
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- Опубликовано: 14 мар 2018
- In this exclusive video interview, British architect Richard Rogers reflects on the influence of the seminal house he designed for his parents at 22 Parkside in Wimbledon, London.
Designed in the late 1960s by Rogers and his then wife Su, the Wimbledon house - also known as the Rogers House - was intended to demonstrate a new pre-fabricated construction system, which would enable homes to be built quickly and affordably.
"This wasn't going to be a one-off like our previous buildings," Rogers says in the movie, which Dezeen filmed in London.
"This was going to be a standardised system to solve the whole of the British housing problem. It didn't! But it did certainly lead to most of the work which I still do some 50 years later and more."
Originally designed for Rogers' parents, the building was adapted and extended by Rogers' son Ab, who moved into the house with his family in 1998.
The house received Grade-II heritage listing in 2013, and two years later Rogers donated the home to the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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I visited Richard’s parents while they were living there; they adored it and were so proud. Richard’s mother had a collection of Picasso ceramics, Ben Nicholson paintings and Henry Moore Marquettes. They said the house was very easy to live in, both said this is our home. I live in a house like this in New Zealand, built in a similar way with steel beams designed by Franz G Iseke in 1958. The Roger’s house connected visually to the outside, very unusual in London in the 1970s, the bathroom had a glass ceiling, one could lie in the bath and watch the snow falling above.
I love this! Way ahead if it’s time, 50 years ago, when modern architecture produced fabulous designs the general populace just wasn’t ready for. Our towns and cities would be so much more functional and beautiful today if these designs had been accepted. We need the elegance of simplicity now more than ever.
Beauty and minimalism at it's best......😍
simply stunning!! one of my favourite pieces of work.
I live in an Italian 16thC villa with a large terrazzo & view of the Med + a rural surround of countless olive trees, packed with my collections of Oriental carpets, ceramics, glass etc with a vast library of 1000s of volumes, especially on art, philosophy, history + a comics collection American, English & Japanese - it's sumptuous, imaginative & overflowing with paintings & artworks [Vietnamese, Russian, French etc] + my art gallery has numerous Bosch-like murals, desks, lamps, toys ... C'mon, live some!
Would absolutely love to live in a house like this!❤️
Love it, such a beautiful space
I love it!
It requires an enormous amount of discipline to live in a house like this. I cannot imagine anyone I know being able to do that -- too many temptations in the outside world to acquire and bring into a minimalist interior. We have become masters of clutter.
@Noe Berengena True!
@@carolz5090
Some people AREN'T hoarders. No one I know, but there must be some out there.
@oltedders I’m not a hoarder, I wasn’t talking about hoarders. Living in a small space has challenges. You’re always mindful to put things away otherwise the place can look messy with just a few things out of place, stuff you wouldn’t even notice being out in a larger space. And there are collections of things people enjoy, like records, or books, or pottery, or model airplanes, or whatever. Not hoarding, just a normal interest or hobby. It’s difficult to have collections of things in a minimalist interior, there’s really no place to put them. And let’s not forget stuff like clothes and coats for all the seasons, shoes and boots + sneakers, household supplies and kitchen tools, important records or files. It takes discipline to eliminate everything but the essentials with a small interior, which is something that @Noe Berengena acknowledged.
@@carolz5090 I really like your comment. Thank you. Most of us are brought up with few guidelines about aesthetic environments. Some people come by this on their own but most of us need training in the art of living minimally. Some time back I adopted the attitude that my home was like a museum. We know that museums (most of them) do not have space to show everything in their collections at one time. So, the solution is to bring certain things out in a rotating cycle. I believe that may be 10% of a museum's entire holdings. // The other point is that I have come to love a blank wall, where the wall's surface characteristics are visually pleasing. I'd love to have a few concrete walls, especially if they retain the expression of the construction process.
@@carolz5090
We live in a modern space at our house. Our closets are bigger, our cupboards are deeper than any of the other houses in our neighborhood. We made sure to plan for that when we remodeled the house. New storage in the attic and garage too. I'm sure there are designated storage spaces inconspicuously placed in the Rogers house. A floor plan would have been a nice addition to the video.
His taste of color for clothing is interesting...
Looks like it’d be cold as heck to live in there during the winter months
As radically simple and pleasing as an open log fire or a poem by Charles Simic.
Love it
Love it.
lovely!
Love his shirt and braces. Where do you find violet ones
Do you think the nautical shaped windows as well as the door can be disturbing to the eye when the 90 degree angles are embedded so clearly at first? It struck me right away as unusual. Thank you.
Mr. Squirrel same here, it doesnt match, still its pretty good looking
I read somewhere it is because the machines are able to cut openings in one cut if the corners are rounded, as opposed to four separate cuts - a manufacturing optimisation.
Nonsense! The innovation is quite striking and original. It really keeps the place from looking too far over board with right angles. They are iconic 60s design and add real midcentury charm to the place. They're delightful.
I wonder why this style of architecture didn't spread when it comes to individual housing. Nowadays, it's still all concrete blocks, small windows and gable roofs.
not sure it is a relevant place to ask this question but i will try - any body can name the type of roof system used in this project - looks unusal to me (0:29-0:34) like several terrace levels / thanks PS Great house / amazing architect!
I would like to know about the mechanical integration, anyone know about that?
I think that was Aaron Peel's London house in Killing Eve.
It must be so energy efficient...
You're missing the point, it's about absolute visual continuity. This house was made to be published in a coffee table book, that you would read comfortably in a normal house.
Stunning, impressive. I love it! But I was wondering if project's author keeps his clean household himself.
weird, the only thing i like about the pompidou center, is the fountain with Niki de Saint Phalle sculpture, but i love his house.
this type of house is great for places where land is cheap.
or where burglars and poverty dont live next door. Still, it might be worth the risk. the house may be cheap. But the fence you’ll need will be so costly.
Wimbledon is far from cheap. The site alone would have cost a small fortune so only for the elite.
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Seems like a nice design for sure but it also seems like a total energy pig with tons of thermal bridging potential via the metal. Wouldn't say this is a very well performing home, but I mean passive design can have an impact on a project like this, not enough of one though for it to make sense from an energy standpoint. Cool design though like I say..
I want see tropical architecture, please bring me the topic 😅
so how is this ground breaking?
Did you miss the part where he explained its ambitions for standardisation, modularisation, extensibility, its structural principles, off-site manufacture? I'd be interested if you could name a similar residential building with those features that pre-dates this one. After 50 years, I think this has aged extremely well.
@@giotto4321 : How about the prefabs erected by local authorities in post war Britain, or the designs conceived by Walter Segal for modular housing in the 1960's?
Do it on mass
At a certain point in an architect or architecture student's life , they have thought of an idea that could solve the housing problems , yet it has never been fixed I wonder why that is?
Money
@@jmk1962 on who's part ? The architect or the people ? When Jean Prouvé designed his , people tought it was too cheap looking , when that was the whole premise behind the house for it to be affordable, hence it's look. It did not look horrible or anything but it did not look super premium. Now a days people spend $50k to $100k on "Tiny houses" 🤦♂️ so there's a demand and money. I guess these architects where ahead of their time ?
Price of land
Why didn't it work? Too flat?
Good question
There is so much natural reverb in this house, that the poor sound engineer even couldn't cut and mix audio of a simple voice accurately. I guess if it would be comfortable to live here unless you are deaf..? Places with such a long decay aren't the ones you feel good mostly.
Why do we still have an affordable housing crisis? Oh wait, we don’t.
Looks like a house built in 2070!
This would make a nice gas station.
Student digs? Lol.
this did not work cause it is not ideal for humans.
but why?
lol, not ideal for humans? do you even know who Richard Rogers is?
Really nothing very special about a pre storage container movement with windows......mid century had more charm. Its how most of the sterile similar copies everywhere with more bamboo looks.
well the video doesnt even show anything... the only thing new, which is still useful, is the idea that the glass need not be entry ways...
Shit
Honestly it looks horrible.
@@oltedders I don't live in a country where people live in trailers, and honestly, your comment is disgusting and disrespectful.
@@oltedders Fragile ego? lol so you're saying you did not have the intend to insult me with your comment? haha go to bed kid, way past your bedtime.
Well, well, what were you provoking then. The person you were arguing with, deleted his comment probably because he thought its just not worth it. You can express your opinion. But you should sound like you have one.
@@eduardochavacano He deleted his comments (or maybe youtube did) cause it was full of insults.
Who wants to sleep in this house with enormous windows in the bed-room?
These types of houses looks very nice on photos and film, but who really wants to live in them? If not the architechts don´t want it themselves, who else?
It´s not just about the view to the outside, but as much as peeping in from the outside....
you get used to the passive lifestyle that these homes bring. i cannot think of another way to live.
add to this you can, if you prefer, use a 3m reflective coating that will not allow wanna-be viewers to look into your dwelling.
Houses like this work very well in suburban environments where buildings are reasonably far apart and surrounded by nature and privacy. Different solutions would need to be developed for living in higher density environments.
Not to mention the greenhouse-effect from these huge glass-areas, and the
enormous sun-light coming in on sunny days, without any form of shielding...
in the particular house above, it is in london, that being said seeing the sun on a regular basis... well, let's just say solar heating is never an issue-hence me moving away from there ;-)
the new glass offerings now reflect the suns heat very well. and i write this while sitting beside floor-to-ceiling glass windows on a sunny day.
Curtains
is it just me or does having a table for 13 ( just so it lines up with the massing of the kitchen element - seem contrived) and he has a second table that seats 6 some architects should stay away from interior design rather he should stick to Commercial projects
Why is he dressed like a clown?
Not much imagination here.........
dated and not timeless.....