Carceral Environment
Architectural and spatial approaches to prison design, incarceration systems, and alternatives to conventional carceral spaces.
5 journals
01 | Prison: Rethinking Incarceration Through Biophilic and Modular Architecture
A People's Choice Award entry reimagines the prison as a timber-lined rehabilitative landscape balancing security with human dignity.
Green Prison: A Self-Sustaining Mini-Town That Redefines Incarceration
Reinforced concrete, timber screens, and biometric security replace bars and fences in a rehabilitative correctional campus.
Penitentiary Warehouse: CLT Timber in a Dutch Prison
Buro NØRD built a demountable CLT warehouse inside a Dutch prison, proving that correctional architecture can be materially honest and humane.
Prison: A metaphorical city of reformation
Architecture for reformation
