Places of Belonging for the Displaced: Thuisplekken voor Ontheemden

The starting point for this graduation project was a fascination with how architects can design for people who live at the margins of society, people that are invisible to many. The research was an investigation into places of belonging of displaced people in the Netherlands. In this case, the term displaced people was used for refugees, asylum...

Cost-effectiveness analysis of preventive strategies for Tuberculosis among formerly-incarcerated individuals in Brazil

Prisons serve as amplifiers of Tuberculosis (TB) transmission due to overpopulation, lack of hygiene, and bad ventilation [Mabud et al., 2019] [Baussano et al., 2010]. The risk of TB is elevated during and after incarceration, only returning to the general population’s risk seven years after liberation. This is an indication that formerly...

Spaces of Confinement: A banality of good

People make mistakes. But how does society treat them when they do? For archi- tecture to be involved in this process, is to be at least called arbitrary, as it frames the spaces in which we punish and reform. For architects to design prisons is a paradoxical task because of the conflicting interest and changing goals of its design. Spaces of...

Domesticity ‘Behind Bars’: Project by Rem Koolhaas/OMA for the Renovation of a Panopticon Prison in Arnhem

This article focuses on the project for the renovation of a Panopticon prison in Arnhem, the Netherlands (1979–1980), designed by Rem Koolhaas/OMA. The analysis of its reception shows that, despite being well known, it has been little studied and discussed, and although it was not built, it had an impact on prison architecture. It seems...

Towards a New Prison: Facilitating the cyber crime threat

Digitalization and automation brings many amazing things; games, social media, navigation. However, it also makes us more vulnerable. The facelessness of cyber space and the emancipation of place makes it hard to grasp. Additionally, our personal data becomes more valuable and thereby more lucrative to criminalize. The combination of these...

Rehabilitation Through Education - a prison in the Garfield Park neighborhood

Reducing recidivism through education programs in the prison.