Walmer Yard forms a discreet and private set of four interlocking houses totalling more than 800m2, set around an open courtyard.

This building, designed and crafted by Peter Salter together with Fenella Collingridge, and developed by Crispin Kelly, is the reflection of a long education and the product of a decade of learning, thought and inspiration.

From the play of light, shadow and colour, to the intense celebration of materials and constantly fresh sequences of spaces, these houses celebrate what architecture can deliver at the domestic scale.

The houses now form the home of the Baylight Foundation, a charitable organisation with the aim of increasing the public understanding of what architecture can do, rooted in the experience of Walmer Yard.

www.walmeryard.co.uk

Principal Designer: Peter Salter
Associate Designer: Fenella Collingridge
Developer: Crispin Kelly
Project Manager: Sebastian Kelly
Main Contractor: Daren Bye
Site Manager: David Tofts
Keeper: Laura Mark

Peter Salter is a British teacher and designer.

In the 1980s and 1990s Salter established his reputation whilst teaching at the Architectural Association. He went on to become the Head of the School of Architecture at the University of East London and has been the Professor of Architectural Design at the Welsh School of Architecture since 2006.

In 2004, he won the Royal Institute of British Architects Annie Spink Award for his outstanding contribution to architectural education. This prize was awarded jointly with Wolf Prix, and confirmed his international standing.

His students are amongst the foremost architects now practicing all over the world from Iceland to Germany.

The four houses at Walmer Yard in London represent his first built residential project in the UK.

The houses now form the home of The Baylight Foundation, a charitable organisation with the aim of increasing the public understanding of what architecture can do, rooted in the experience of Walmer Yard.

The Foundation considers how analogue and traditional experiences of architecture stand in an increasingly digital future of virtual and enhanced reality, where the hearth is replaced by the mobile phone.

Research at Walmer Yard investigates the way in which we can be grounded, connected and made ‘at home’ by means of such architectural experience.

At the core of the Foundation is the shared experience of visiting and staying, and the rituals of daily domestic life. This is available to some who pay, and others who contribute to the programme through their research.