IPIC2024-PID028 by Kavan Applegate and Craig Blewitt

Evidence-Based Design in Recent Australian Maximum Security Prison Projects

Authors

Kavan Applegate

Director, Guymer Bailey Architects, Australia

Kavan is the Chair of the ICPA Planning and Design Network and Director of Guymer Bailey Architects, specialising in specialist in justice and correctional architecture – therapeutic environments that facilitate rehabilitation, empower behavioural change and create a sense of hope to ultimately reduce recidivism rates and create a better, safer community for all.
Knowing that our environment has a profound effect on us, his passion is in harnessing the transformative effects of architecture to help people live better lives. Through the creative and sustainable use of building form and materials and the rehabilitative effects of daylight, Kavan believes architecture can significantly change the quality of life for those inhabiting its space. It is this ‘architecture of hope’ that he seeks to provide each day by delivering well planned, operationally effective and delight-filled masterplanning and building solutions.
Over the last 25 years, Kavan has led the design of many of Australia’s most innovative and iconic justice and correctional projects alongside our team including Hopkins Correctional Centre, Ravenhall Correctional Centre, Western Plains Correctional Centre, Rivergum Residential Treatment Centre, Southern Queensland Correctional Centre (St2), Southern Remand Correctional Centre, and the Thomas Embling Forensic Hospital Expansion as well as works in numerous other secure facilities.
As a Director of Guymer Bailey Architects, Kavan leads the exceptional architecture, landscape architecture and interior design team across our Melbourne and Brisbane Studios and overseeing our large-scale correctional projects.

Craig Blewitt

Corrections Sector Lead, Associate Director, Guymer Bailey Architects, Australia

With more than 13 years specialising in corrections, Craig is one of Guymer Bailey Architect’s most experienced correctional architects and brings rare insights into therapeutic and rehabilitative design and state-of-the-art security measures. As correctional sector lead in our Brisbane Studio, Craig manages all Queensland correctional and justice projects and also assists with our large scale prison projects across Australia.
His attention to detail, specialist knowledge and commitment to collaboration with clients, consultants and builders, in partnership with the Guymer Bailey team, has resulted in a proven track record of high-quality built outcomes and some of Australia's most forward-thinking, rehabilitation-focused correctional facilities.

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