architectural design studio IV

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what

new relationship spaces

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who

Elena Busoni, Luca Pugliano,

Elena Ramondetta, Lucrezia Rossi

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when
october 2017 - february 2018

 

where
Bollate prison
Bollate, Italy

45°31'31.7"N 9°05'50.7"E

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In the belief on the need for a different conception of reclusion, starting from the re-education of detained people, the aim of our project is the creation of adequate spaces, capable of supporting and enriching relational experiences between people who live the prison, that could favor their path towards reintegration into society and help to limit the cases of recidivism. The first strategy is to create a street (reactivating the courts on the main corridors) to which all of the possibilities are connected, improving or adding functions to the existing prison. The purposes are to make all of the new spaces as architecturally qualitative as possible and to try to integrate nature in the existing introspective prison. As a provocation, the path breaks the surrounding wall at the end of it, building a new polarity for people from the inside and people from the outside, like a bridge between the prison and the city. This final area provides new working oppotunities and, with the design of an hostel, the possibility for detained people’s relatives to stay during meeting periods.