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Storstrøm Prison on Falster, Denmark
Danish State Building Development – design by C. F. Møller Architects
11 Dec 2017
Storstrøm Prison
Design: C. F. Møller Architects
Location: Blichersvej, Gundslev, Falster, Denmark
Storstrøm Prison

Photos: Torben Eskerod
A modern, humane, high-security prison that uses architecture to promote prisoners? social rehabilitation

The aim of the closed Storstrøm Prison is to create the world?s most humane high-security prison, which contributes to the inmates? social rehabilitation through architecture that supports the inmates? mental and physical well-being and also ensures a secure and pleasant workplace for the prison staff.
The overall architectural intent is to create a facility that echoes the structure and scale of a small provincial community. The result is architecture which stimulates the urge and ability to rejoin society after serving a prison sentence. The architecture also creates a pleasant and secure environment for the prison staff, and is a natural element of the surrounding built-up area on Lolland Falster.

The prison accommodates 250 inmates in four standard prison wings and one maximum-security wing. There is also a visitors? unit, activity building, workshop building, gate building and staff building. The ten buildings in total cover overall floorspace of approximately 35,000 m².

The prison buildings are located to ...