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Space House in East Grinstead
was designed by Peter Foggo and David Thomas in
1963-4. The pair had studied together in Liverpool,
graduating in 1957, and from 1959 to 1965 designed
a number of private houses together as Peter Foggo
David Thomas Architects. This was a part-time
practice which they ran between 8pm and midnight
and at weekends. Both subsequently became directors
of Arup Associates, where their work is better-known.
Their first complete house was
commissioned in 1959 via Kenneth Capon of
Architects' Co-Partnership, the practice where
Foggo was working at the
time. George Scott, the client for that house,
had seen Capon's own weekend
house in a magazine and by pure chance bought
a small woodland plot next
door to it at Bosham Hoe in Sussex before he realised
where the Capon House
was.
Capon himself was too busy to
design a house for Scott, so passed the job to
Foggo as a spare time project which he carried
out with Thomas. The Scott house (now called Sorrel
House) was extended by Foggo and Thomas in 1965
and again by Thomas working with Foggo Associates
in 1999. It has won an RIBA award this year and
was featured in the February 2002 RIBA Journal.
Space House at East Grinstead,
illustrated here, was one of the commissions which
followed Sorrel House over the next six years,
and was itself the prototype for three houses
built about a year later at Holyport, near Windsor.
The house has been owned by
the same family from 1968 until the present day.
Space House has recently
been on the market and is currently under offer
through Hamptons International (01403 211766).
It is a steel-framed building which provides light
and spacious accommodation. It's elevations are
of vertical Western Red Cedar boarding with 1/4'
polished plate glass windows set in neoprene gaskets,
under a flat roof.
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