Prisons are the physical manifestation of a societal view on human behavior. As an architectural typology, they reflect the societal ideas about the relationship between the State and the individual.
This presentation makes this concrete and tangible by presenting a prototype, designed for the city of Oslo; thus depicting how prison typologies may be rethought based on new methodological and morphological ideas. More specifically, the presented case-study investigates prison design through the use of a small scale and local context concept, where the local environment affects the design, thus providing closeness and belonging. The design background will be discussed on the basis of interviews with reference groups, drawings, images and 3D-models. In so doing, we hypothesize that case studies such as ours contribute to more sustainable planning and design, as they may provide new insights on the relationship between the physical context and user behavior and rehabilitation.

A New Architectural Typology for Incarceration: The Presentation of a Small-Scale and Community-Integrated Prototype (PID050)

Moderator

Mark McGoldrick

Speakers

Eivind Bjørndalen

Helene De Vos