Switching Prisons International Design Competition, the Hague, Dutch Prisoner Architecture, Images
Switching Prisons International Design Competition
Architecture Contest Runner Up in The Netherlands – design by NBRS ARCHITECTURE
9 Jan 2020
Switching Prisons
Architects: NBRS ARCHITECTUREt
Location: The Hague, Holland

The Switching Prisons Brief called for a new age architecture to address crimes of tomorrow. As a practice we are focused on improving the built environment to affect social connectivity. NBRS ARCHITECTURE challenge for this competition was to create a platform whereby those caught in criminal activity within the cyber world could discover the humane benefit of community centred living and skill building.
Our scheme is titled Communiversity; embodying the creation of a village campus and supporting programs which assist well being for a shared good.
Communiversity is a place to learn and give back to the greater urban community through a woven interdependency and a controlled permeable soft edge leading to adjusted individual well being.

It is a rehabilitative model where participants (inmates) discover how to positively contribute to the well being of society through project-based team study. There will be codependency and cohabitation fostering a platform of community.
The participants positively benefit within a safe and rigorous structure through a common goal of positive influence across different scales of personal relationships and society.
Th...