Prison design architecture

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

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?

Platinum Award: Iowa's new women's correctional institution offers a revolutionary model for rehabilitating female inmates.

A prison in San Diego is trying to improve the inmate experience through good architecture and design.

Does prison architecture have to be cruel?

the project examines the possibility of creating a prison-city in the sky, where the inmates would live in a 'free' and productive community with agricultural fields and factories that would support the host city below.

_landscape’s landmark_The form of the building is inspired by the territorial geomorphology.In the landscape, we recognize visual landmark modelled over time through the action of atmospheric agent. Rain, wind, the alternation of seasons modify the mountains’ shape and allow the...

Prisons have been replaced by “correctional facilities” and “detention centres.” Whatever language we use, incarceration has grown into a huge industry that supports the banking, legal, food service, and telecommunications industries, as well as architects, designers, and contractors.

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?

A new model for normalizing prison design.