Prison architecture

Local Architecture Network's minimum security prison in Nanterre has a perforated metal facade and a sports court in pastel hues.

Shreya's analysis on the "character" of spaces and Prison Architecture during Renaissance and Revolutionary periods. Designs by Ledoux, Filarete & Piranesi

Cyber crime is allowed thanks to the loss of identity that the virtual allows. Incarceration often rhymes with loss of identity. The prisoner becomes a number lost in the mass. How to re-invent incarceration to see it adapt to new crimes and a society in change?

A better architecture of incarceration? With incredibly high counts of people in prison in the U.S., and many returning back to jail multiple times, one designer has a proposal on how to break the cycle.

Danish architects CF Møller have won a competition to build a new state prison on the island of Falster in Denmark. Laid out like a small village, the proposal will integrate various work and leisure facilities alongside green spaces, all linked by a network of streets with a six metre perimeter wall enclosing the prison. Administration buildings, a

As part of a restorative justice workshop, a group of San Francisco prisoners were asked what they would change about the designs of places in which they were incarcerated. The project goals were twofold: engaging inmates educationally while also providing potentially actionable feedback for redesigning prison-related spaces, including parts of the system beyond just cells (from transitional spaces and reentry

Prison near Tarragona, Spain, by AiB and Estudi PSP Arquitectura with concrete and stone buildings, sculpted rooftops and large courtyards.

The concept of the modern prison comes down to creation of a green island of salvation that will turn a person to the right track again. It?s obvious that the design of prisons reflects the society?s attitude towards the convicts and penitentiary system in general, and it is our aim to change this attitude ? both in the citizens?

Image 2 of 21 from gallery of Schmidt Hammer Lassen and BOGL to Transform a Former Prison Site in Denmark. Courtesy of Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects+BOGL

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