Sketch scheme (feasibility study) for a Berkshire parkland property, with David NAESSENS, solicited as a result of my exhibition at Charterhouse School, in 1985.
A family friend wanted an indoor swimming pool and had been proposed a dreadful off-the-peg glasshouse, which would have spoilt the south-facing lawn and obscured the carefully framed view of Donnington Castle (1386), whose ruins appeared like a distant ‘folly’ (see interior perspective below). Paul was looking for alternative proposals and approached me. David & I preferred putting to better use the scrubby space to the rear of the house with a new building, which also tidied up and formalized access to the rear yard and outhouses.
Eligible thanks to David’s nationality, the scheme received the 1987 Architectural Association of Ireland award, for which the presentation panel, below, was specifically devised (perspective set out in Paris by yours truly, traced in London by David).
The oil & pastel-coloured perspective (above, my personal collection, Paris) was exhibited at the 1986 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, and provoked the disparaging comments of Martin PAWLEY.
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