AR.

RICHARD ROGERS
1. LIFE AND TIME
 NAME Richard Rogers
 NATIONALITY United kingdom
 BIRTH DATE 23 July 1933
 BIRTH PLACE Florence
 FAMILY Anglo Italian parents
Su Brumwell, wife
and colleague.
Second wife is Ruth
Rogers, co-owner of The
River Café (also designed
by Richard Rogers).
1. LIFE AND TIME
 EDUCATION
Studied at the London architectural
association where he graduated in
1959.
Also studied at the Yale university
masters programme.
1. LIFE AND TIME
 PROFESSION
Richard Rogers and colleague Norman foster worked with
their respective wives Sue Rogers and Wendy
Cheesman. They quickly earned a reputation for
high-tech industrial design.
Presently, a chief advisor on architecture and
urbanism to the mayor of London.
Recently, appointed chair to the greater London
authority’s design for London advisory group.
Also serves as advisor to the mayor of Barcelona
urban strategies council.
Currently, a trustee of the museum of modern art
in New York.
2. PHILOSOPHY
 ARCHITECTURAL THEORIES/ BELIEFS
“ technology cannot be an end in itself but
must aim at solving long term social and
ecological problems.”

“ this is impossible in a world where short

term profit for the haves is seen as a goal
to the expense of developing more efficient
technology for the have- nots.”
2. PHILOSOPHY
 MAIN PRINCIPLE
“ emphasis to the social and urban
dimension of architecture, as well as
in sometimes brilliant synthesis with
detail and structure to create
architecture with a powerfully
inventive character.”
3. WORKS
 CENTRAL
GEORGES
POMPIDOU
PARIS, FRANCE
1971-77
CENTRAL GEORGES POMPIDOU
 Type Museum & Library
 Architectural Style Modern
 Structural System Concrete frame &
precast concrete ribbed roof
 Location Paris, France
 Construction Completed 1977
 Architect Renzo Piano & Richard Rogers
 Structural engineer
Ove Arup & Partners
CENTRAL GEORGES POMPIDOU
 INTRODUCTION
Centre Georges Pompidou is a complex in
the Beau Bourg area of the IVe
arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles
and the Marais.
Because of its location, the Centre is known
locally as Beaubourg. It is named after
Georges Pompidou, who was president of
France from 1969 to 1974, and was opened
on January 31, 1977.
CENTRAL GEORGES POMPIDOU
 The architect’s career leapt forward when he won the
design competition for the Pompidou centre on 13
July 1971 with Renzo Piano and Peter Rice.

 This building established Rogers's trademark of

exposing most of the building's services (water,
heating ducts, and stairs) on the exterior, leaving the
internal spaces uncluttered.

 The building is now a much admired Paris landmark,

but at the time critics were mixed, dubbing the
"inside-out" style "Bowellism".
CENTRAL GEORGES POMPIDOU
 BRIEF
 a million square foot cultural centre.

 Consists of four major specialist activities:-

• Museum of modern art.
• A reference library.
• Centre for industrial design.
• Centre for music and acoustic research.

 Areas for office administration, book shops,

restaurants, cinemas, children’s activities and car
parking.
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 SITE
 in the city centre
 On the edge of the densely populated
medieval quarter
 The neighboring Les Halles, which
had housed Paris's principle food
market for generations.
 Site was cleared in the 1930s.
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 Over half of the site was left as an open
space in the form of a large, paved, sloping
amphitheatre on the west side.
 The three roads bordering the piazza were
closed to create a traffic free zone. The
building itself is sited on a north- south
axis, bordering the heavily used rue de
renard on the east, thereby shielding the
piazza from traffic noise and pollution.
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 SITE
• Urban context of
the project
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 PLANNING
 SUBSTRUCTURE
• at street and the level of square there are
large public areas: the forum, theatre, shops,
reception, café, children’s area, current event
areas, exhibition areas.
• Below this are technical and storage area, i.e.
audio visual, computer, photographic, security
control, mechanical support services etc.
• Beneath the square are the bus, truck, car
arrivals and parking areas.
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 Ground level and
piazza
planted and
mounded thus
shielding it from
the surrounding
activities to provide
a place of quiet
relaxation.
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 Superstructure
It is divided into 4 zones:-
1. The five large open plan floors
• contains major activities, outdoor terraces
and administrative departments.
• on the top floor there are more general
public activities which close late at night,
benefiting from the view and giving a
constant life to the building i.e. restaurants,
cinema, temporary exhibition.
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2. The west 7m wide structural zone facing
the square
• It contains vertical and horizontal
movement, exploiting a wonderful view of
Paris.
• Escalators, lifts, escape stairs, glazed and
open galleries or corridors, audio visual
screens, announcements, exhibitions etc.
are clipped on, animating and continuing
the activities of the square below.
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PUBLIC MOVEMENT EXPRESSED ON THE OUTSIDE FOR

ALL TO SEE
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3. the east side 7m wide structural zone
facing rue de renard
• Contains all the mechanical services,
goods lifts and stairs, with
continuous steel galleries for ease of
maintenance and contain paint
rooms, booting towers.
CENTRAL GEORGES POMPIDOU
 IRCAM
• International research centre for
acoustics and music.
• multi disciplinary centre for research
into music and sound.
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 Each of major floors are 170m x 48m by 7m high,
with no fixed vertical interruptions of either structure,
services or movement to limit the users freedom.

 All vertical connections are run along the east and

west sides of the building.

 All partitions in the superstructure are movable and of

dry construction.

 The corridors, ducts, fire stairs, escalators, lifts,

columns and bracings, which would normally interrupt
the floors, are exposed on the outside.
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 FIRE PROTECTION of the main columns of the
superstructure is achieved by water filling, each
column being provided with an integral circulatory
pump.

 The main span lattice beams are fire protected by a

minimal wrap and a top cladding of stainless steel.

 The external structure is largely unprotected, fire

integrity being gained by the fire stop properties of
the façade itself and by the distance of elements from
potential fire sources.
CENTRAL GEORGES POMPIDOU
 All roof air conditioning plants are
high velocity dual duct variable air
volume systems providing over
80,000m3 per hour of conditioned air.
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Structural concept
 The concept of the building is that of two
principle main structural planes 50m apart,
which support a series of free span decks
between them.

 The superstructure is supported on a four

storey reinforced concrete substructure which
incorporates all foundations for the steel frame
above.
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 Following the competition in 1971, the
building was designed and build in six
years, the main steel structure being
erected in six months.

 The building was submitted on time and

was under budget in January 1977 at a cost
of $100,000,000 with an average
attendance of approximately seven million
people per year.
3. WORKS
 LLOYD’S BUILDING
LONDON
1978- 86
LLOYD’S BUILDING, LONDON
 Location London, England

 Date 1979 to 1984

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 Building Type commercial, corporate
headquarters Construction System steel frame
with glass curtain wall

 Climate temperate
 Context urban
 Style High-Tech Modern

 Notes Expressed structure and

exposed services as ornamental order
LLOYD’S BUILDING, LONDON
 BRIEF
 Home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of
London and is located in lime street, in the city of
London.

 Like the Pompidou centre, the building was

innovative in having its services such as
staircases, lifts, electrical power conduits and
water pipes on the outside.

 The 12 glass lifts were the first of their kind in

the UK.
LLOYD’S BUILDING, LONDON

Lloyd’s Building (with the blue Lloyd's Building, City of London

cranes), London, with Swiss re
towers behind.
LLOYD’S BUILDING, LONDON
 CONSTRUCTION
 The Lloyd's building height is
approximately 76m (250 feet) and
features 14 floors.
 Each floor can rapidly and easily be
altered with the addition or removal
of partitions and walls.
LLOYD’S BUILDING, LONDON
 The building consists of 3 main towers and 3 service
towers around a central, rectangular space. Its focal
point is the gigantic Underwriting Room on the ground
floor, which houses the famous Lutine bell.

 The Underwriting Room (often simply known as 'the

Room') is overlooked by galleries, forming a 60-metre
(200-foot)-high atrium lit naturally through a huge
barrel vaulted glass roof.

 The first four galleries open onto the atrium space,

and are connected by escalators through the middle
of the structure. (The higher floors are glassed-in,
and can only be reached via the outside lifts.)
3. WORKS
 MILLENIUM DOME,
GREENWICH,
LONDON,
1999.
MILLENIUM DOME,GREENWICH
 Building Type Arena
 Architectural Style Dome
 Structural System Steel & tensioned
fabric
 Location London, England
 ConstructionCompleted2000
 Design Team Architect Richard Rogers
 Structural engineer Buro Happold
MILLENIUM DOME,GREENWICH
 BRIEF
 Later known as THE O2
 Large dome shaped building on the
Greenwich peninsula.
 Come constructed to hold a major
exhibition celebrating the beginning of third
millennium.
 This exhibition opened to public on January
1, 2000 and ran until December 31, 2000.
MILLENIUM DOME,GREENWICH
 Since the closure of the original exhibition,
several possible ways of reusing the
building have been proposed and then
rejected.

 2005, May dome transits into an indoor

sporting arena.
( in this role the plan is to host the 2009
WORLD GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIP and
the ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS and trampoline
events of 2012 SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES.)
MILLENIUM DOME,GREENWICH
 STRUCTURE AND
CONSTRUCTION
 Largest single roofed
structure in the world.
 The structural concept
of the roof is of
tensioned radial
stringer cables which
support the fabric and
run between the inner
ring and the concave
curve of the fabric
edge.
MILLENIUM DOME,GREENWICH
 Externally it appears as a large white marquee
with twelve 100 m-high yellow support towers,
one for each month of the year, or each hour of
the clock face, representing the role played by
Greenwich Mean Time.

 In plan view it is circular, 365 m in diameter —

one meter for each day of the year — with
scalloped edges.
MILLENIUM DOME,GREENWICH
 It has become one of
the United
Kingdom's most
recognizable
landmarks.
MILLENIUM DOME,GREENWICH
 The entire roof structure weighs less
than the air contained within the
building.
 Although called a dome it is not
strictly one as it is not self-
supporting, but is a mast-supported,
dome-shaped cable network.
MILLENIUM DOME,GREENWICH
 The canopy is made of
PTFE coated Glass
fiber fabric, a durable
and weather-resistant
plastic, and is 50 m
high in the middle.
 Its symmetry is
interrupted by a hole
through which a
ventilation shaft from
the Blackwall Tunnel
rises.
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New Terminal 4 Interior

OTHER SIGNIFICANT WORKS
 National assembly of
Wales, Cardiff, 2006.
 Rogers house,
Wimbledon, London,
1968-69.
 Furniture for the
Centre Pompidou,
Paris, France, 1974-
76
 Richard Rogers is one of the foremost living
architects, the recipient of the prestigious
RIBA gold medal in 1985 and the winner of
the 1999 Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Foundation Medal.
 The 2000 premium imperiale prize for
architecture and finally the 2006 Golden Lion
for lifetime achievement.
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