Prison

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  New schools, libraries and hospitals are
clearly designed with a generous attitude
to the principles of supporting health and
Purpose wellbeing
 Increasing prison population
of prison  Reconsideration of the status of those in
is prison as citizens
 Rehabilitation and reducing recidivism
shifting..  Prison system has 3 core objectives: to
protect the public; to punish; and to
rehabilitate.
  Tartaro et al. (2008) suggested that the use of
design to transform prisons into less
traditionally institutional and more
‘normalized’ could be beneficial in terms of
suicide reduction.
 Wener (2012) suggested that, prisons lack
Related adequate exposure to light which can lead to
Studies vitamin D deficiency and depression. Also
disruption of circadian rhythms, which may
affect hormone regulation and can have short-
and long-term health consequences.
 Ulrich (2017) concluded that prisons with
layouts that support direct contact between
staff and inmates showed more beneficial
outcomes.
 Gourdard et al., 2017, concluded that in a
French study, poor sleep in prison was reported
to be partly caused by the physical
environment: with two thirds of ‘bad sleepers’
reported noise as the cause (the second most
common cause), followed by temperature (40
%) and light (17 %).
 Johnsen (2018) argues that a
rehabilitation and care concept to
prison design needs to take a more
relational rather than a strictly
technical approach, and be embedded
in broader programs.
More
findings....
Based on
studies...
  Max. Surveillance to Promote security.

New & old  Tends to eliminate a human sense of

designs privacy.

 Conceptual floorplan of prison designs

 Old Design
 Walls of cells: simply bars
 Gaurds and other
prisoners can see
everything that happens
within
 Gaurds stationed In
adjacent room seperate
from the raw by a security
door
 Inmates are accessible
only when scheduled to
gaurd’s desk
 Space for activity & other;
on another facility
New Design
 Solid walls for privacy
 Windows to outside
 Lights controlled by
individual inmates
 Gaurd also served as
counselor
 Gaurd Stationed in open
area surrounded by cells
 Inmates have free access
to gaurd’s desk
 Activity areas within the
unit
 Redesigning prisons:
RIBA President’s Awards
for Research,
2018: winner, Ethics and
Sustainability theme
By
Karthaus, Block,
& Hu
architecture
that combines
natural
daylight with
views of the
sky
large-scale
print of a
landscape
  Bell, P.A., Greene, T. C.,Fisher,J.D., &
Baum, A. (2001). Environmental
Psychology (5th ed.). USA: Thomson
Wadswerth .
 Karthaus, R., Block, L., & Hu, A. (2019)
REFERENCES Redesigning prison: the architecture
and ethics of rehabilitation, The
Journal of Architecture, 24 (2). 193-
222.DOI:10.1080/13602365.2019.
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 Research and Evaluation Unit, (2018).
How architecture and design
matter for prison services: A rapid
review of literature (Swedish
Prison and Probation Service).
Norrkoping: Kriminalvarden.
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varden.se/globalassets/publiationer/
forskningsrapporter/prison-
architecture-and-design.pdf