Peter Salter
Walmer Yard and the
Venice Biennale
Peter Salter is a British teacher and designer. He has been Head of the School of Architecture at the University of East London and since 2006, Professor of Architectural Design at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University. Walmer Yard is a group of four houses around a courtyard in West London completed in 2018. The complex has now become an architectural research institution. The strategy for the design looks at the idea of close living and explores how privacy and quietness can be achieved in such circumstances. The proposal for the Venice Biennale also examines domestic space as Freespace. The architecture is expressed as furniture and muses on the relationship between the occupiers’ intimacy and the space of the room. Both projects with the collaboration of Fenella Collingridge.