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Our prison system has
failed to see advancements throughout the past century and desperately requires
innovation and re-imagination. While
recent literature begins to question the sociological status of prisons, there
has be little exploration of the physical apparatus in which inmates are
housed. We as designers must take a critical look at these static institutions,
and question how we can play a significant role in the design and function of
future prisons.
499.SUMMIT carefully
challenges all preconceived notions of the word “prison”, and proposes simple
yet powerful ideas that re-imagine the high-rise as an urban penitentiary. The massing consists of three towers in the
shape of an arch. The inherent linear
and formal qualities of the ‘arch’ allowed us to establish our key circulatory
concept: UP, OVER, DOWN. Each arch has
three primary phases, Incarceration (up), Transformation (over), and
Integration (down). The arches begin
isolated during the incarceration phase and merge together both physically and
programmatically during the integration phase.
As the inmates graduate through the facility, they are being exposed to
an increasing degree of social interaction, in order to make the transition
back into society as soft as possible.
To catalyst this process, public program and residential housing units
are introduced in the integration phase downwards.
failed to see advancements throughout the past century and desperately requires
innovation and re-imagination. While
recent literature begins to question the sociological status of prisons, there
has be little exploration of the physical apparatus in which inmates are
housed. We as designers must take a critical look at these static institutions,
and question how we can play a significant role in the design and function of
future prisons.
499.SUMMIT carefully
challenges all preconceived notions of the word “prison”, and proposes simple
yet powerful ideas that re-imagine the high-rise as an urban penitentiary. The massing consists of three towers in the
shape of an arch. The inherent linear
and formal qualities of the ‘arch’ allowed us to establish our key circulatory
concept: UP, OVER, DOWN. Each arch has
three primary phases, Incarceration (up), Transformation (over), and
Integration (down). The arches begin
isolated during the incarceration phase and merge together both physically and
programmatically during the integration phase.
As the inmates graduate through the facility, they are being exposed to
an increasing degree of social interaction, in order to make the transition
back into society as soft as possible.
To catalyst this process, public program and residential housing units
are introduced in the integration phase downwards.
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