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Peter Salter, Walmer Yard, London, 2016

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Peter Salter - Walmer Yard, London

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Synopsis has visited Walmer Yard, a freshly built housing project in London by the Architect Peter Salter. Our senior Peter-Salter correspondent, Evripides Mytilineos, has attended the press tour and writes for us:

Peter Salter’s first built project in the UK consists of a set of four intelocking private houses.

The inner resonance of each house ariticulates a journey of craftmanship and spatial inventiveness. It could be read as a collage from Salter’s plethora of references. Often those derived from the Japanese architectural vocabulary.

In the first instance, Salter’s inner spaces are not tailored for the ‘ordinary user’. For example, often bathrooms are reconsidered as spaces extended into the ‘bedrooms’ or 'corridors’ etc.

This delivers the idea of freedom of use within these integrated spaces. It is a form of spatial evolution without definite boundaries. Kitchen areas could serve as spaces where activities such as 'reading by the sink’ or sleeping within could happen. 'Kitchen’ then, could gradually be transformed into a self-sufficient entity where inhabitation could emerge. A diversified spatial potentiality, uncertain perhaps, could be experienced-given by the user-inhabitant.

The give-and-take of sensual experience is attempted throughout, walking form outside-inside and vice-versa. The body is contained into a constant layering of readings and experiences; materials & surfaces, light & shadow, colour & reflection.

Each 'nest’ belongs and contributes to the overall architectural synthesis; yet each evolves as an autonomous entity. The overall housing footprint cloaks an asymmetrical inner courtyard; an intimate yet quiet space, communal yet protective.

In this small courtyard, in its discreet intimacy, Salter’s peculiar architectural language initiates.

Photographs + Text: Evripides Mytillineos