The research addresses the issue of prison architecture, specifically it talks about minimum security institution. The aim is to identify new design criteria and to develop alternative architectural proposals. The expansion of prison population in the last 20 years led many governments to produce guidelines and reference standard to ensure uniform treatment and shared levels of comfort. The awareness reached by every Western nation that the goal of punishment is to re-integrate inmates into society, raised the need to understand deeply the detention effects on people and to understand how prison design can influence the behaviour and the life of the users (inmates, staff and visitors). The research focuses on minimum security institution (or open house) to elaborate new organizational and functional principles through the analysis of functional areas and to develop a metadesign that identify dimensional, environmental and technological requirements indispensable for design. The purpose of the research is to define alternatives architectural types of prison that reflects the needs of the inmates, in which the residential and rehabilitation functions predominate on classic organization of traditional prison. Given the huge complexity of the variables which must be taken into account in the design of prison, this research aim to identify the key design factors, such as: location, dimension, overall layout, control's activities, type of living accommodation and, last but not least, the quality of the space both inside and outside. The identified key design factors will be synthesized in several architectural design proposals with the goal to resolve the relationship between functional layout and building typology, or rather the relationship between functional patterns and the space configuration, and furthermore the relation between building typology and the urban spaces or the urban facilities that surround the prison. The achievement of the goals of quality, livability and safety of such facilities represent the aim towards which the research want to arrive a set of 'principles and rules' useful for effective design of the new prison model. Also the aim is to understand the space's characters and the nature of activities to define new design criteria and to steer future policy choices about building prison to simplify the management and maintenance procedures and to avoid unnecessary costs.

Halfway housing for inmates / Luigi Vessella. - ELETTRONICO. - (2015), pp. 103-116.

Halfway housing for inmates

Luigi Vessella
2015

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The research addresses the issue of prison architecture, specifically it talks about minimum security institution. The aim is to identify new design criteria and to develop alternative architectural proposals. The expansion of prison population in the last 20 years led many governments to produce guidelines and reference standard to ensure uniform treatment and shared levels of comfort. The awareness reached by every Western nation that the goal of punishment is to re-integrate inmates into society, raised the need to understand deeply the detention effects on people and to understand how prison design can influence the behaviour and the life of the users (inmates, staff and visitors). The research focuses on minimum security institution (or open house) to elaborate new organizational and functional principles through the analysis of functional areas and to develop a metadesign that identify dimensional, environmental and technological requirements indispensable for design. The purpose of the research is to define alternatives architectural types of prison that reflects the needs of the inmates, in which the residential and rehabilitation functions predominate on classic organization of traditional prison. Given the huge complexity of the variables which must be taken into account in the design of prison, this research aim to identify the key design factors, such as: location, dimension, overall layout, control's activities, type of living accommodation and, last but not least, the quality of the space both inside and outside. The identified key design factors will be synthesized in several architectural design proposals with the goal to resolve the relationship between functional layout and building typology, or rather the relationship between functional patterns and the space configuration, and furthermore the relation between building typology and the urban spaces or the urban facilities that surround the prison. The achievement of the goals of quality, livability and safety of such facilities represent the aim towards which the research want to arrive a set of 'principles and rules' useful for effective design of the new prison model. Also the aim is to understand the space's characters and the nature of activities to define new design criteria and to steer future policy choices about building prison to simplify the management and maintenance procedures and to avoid unnecessary costs.
2015
978-88-6655-848-4
Looking to methods and tools for the Research in Design and Architectural Technology
103
116
Luigi Vessella
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