The complex consists of twelve buildings offering full services from accommodation, sports and education facilities to workshops, and a factory... being a small city of its own in the middle of natural surroundings. This architectural competition-winning concept enhances the rhythm in prisoners’ lives, the rhythm known outside the prison walls. Instead of compressing the programme and minimising communications routes, it focuses on designing the experience of selected activities.

Playing basketball in the breeze on the building’s roof, with the sun and views over the walls, walking to the library as one would back home, or to the gym or to work, are in the focus of the design.

 On the other hand, the functional scheme of technical and service routes is rationalised to a maximum, and the construction system with repetition is pre-fabricated, maximising the speed of the construction while the rest of the prison has been fully operational.