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Switching Prisons: Projects, Journals & Ideas

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This topic examines how architectural design can transform correctional facilities from purely punitive spaces into environments that support rehabilitation and human dignity. Projects explore innovative spatial strategies, material choices, and programmatic approaches that reshape the prison typology.

The community investigates prison reimagining through biophilic design, modular systems, and specialized facilities for different offender populations. Work ranges from conceptual campus-scale interventions to critical examinations of confinement's psychological and social dimensions.

Top contributors

UNI20 works

Valentina Geminiani1 work

Daniel Evans1 work

Nick Penner1 work

Kirill Sidorenko1 work

liza Simpson1 work

Gavin Shen1 work

德成曾1 work

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Kirill and 2 others

Green Prison

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?

Nahal and Nick

Screen

The prison is designed to restore the man's Golden Light (i.e. personal restraint). Man has been darkened by the power of the Screen, and must learn to restore his Golden Light, by passing through the Filter, Reform, and Reflect Stages; creating a slowed-down version of the Screen. The prison does not absorb light like the Screen, rather, it restores Light.

HOT SPOT

Prisons should not be isolated island, not be abandoned area, not be unfriendly cold. Prisons should be HOT SPOT, which is integrated with urban fabric and life .It can be used as the public space and part of urban member. Spot sometimes is not a nice place, but if we are to give enough care, and it will be a hot spot,which is the most fancy and sexy place.

Giovanna and 2 others

A Wall to live in

A Wall to live in consist in designing an innovative prison for new types of criminals. It is based on the themes of modularity, nature and human being. With crimes like the non-violent ones the rehabilitation is a fundamental part of the judgment and it's exactly this aspect that this project tend to improve.

Xinhao and 3 others

The Studio for Redemption

Different from normal violent crimes, some criminals are using their minds instead of muscles or skills to get illegal intersts. Future prisons have to handle those guys in some creative ways. By uniting prisoners with groups, it is practically possible to have them make contributions to the society wtih their intelligence.

Pablo

How much is a "like" worth?

The tower type is valid for office buildings in which people as a general rule enter and leave at the same time and perform the same job. A number of individual or group offices, co-working or other variants are always present. So let's try this type for a prison. They are equal cells (offices) with spaces for co-working (workshops, communication..)

chengpeng

BOUNDARY POSSIBILITY

With the improvement of the level of science and technology, the growth of the economic level, and the increasing number of cybercrime, as people's demands for quality of life are getting higher and higher, people begin to pay attention to the prisons of special criminals.

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publishedStory5 months ago

Unintentional Prison: Rethinking Confinement as a Micro-City of Rehabilitation

A shortlisted entry reimagines penitentiary architecture as a digitally-inspired urban ecosystem for non-violent offenders.

Interactive Prison

Switching Prisons

UNI

publishedStory5 months ago

Behind the Walls: A Prison Reimagined as Biophilic Campus for Reintegration

Clustered timber modules, green bridges, and communal living spaces replace punitive confinement with a restorative correctional landscape.

Switching Prisons

Prototyping

UNI

publishedStory5 months ago

Cable Prison: Modular Architecture That Reframes Incarceration as Rehabilitation

A cable-supported, timber-framed correctional facility designed around transparency, dignity, and the spatial logic of community integration.

Switching Prisons

Prison

UNI

publishedStory5 months ago

Balancing Dichotomy: Modular Prison Architecture Rethought for Cybercriminals

A shortlisted competition entry reimagines correctional facilities as modular ecosystems that rehabilitate cyber offenders through education and spatial op

Switching Prisons

Educational Building