Year: 2016
Type: dissertation
Abstract: In 2011, Correctional Services Canada closed Canada's oldest prison in continuous use, Kingston Penitentiary, as part of a larger reorganization and distribution of Canadian prisons.This thesis considers the abandoned prison site as an opportunity for productive and strategic architectural imagination.Through a series of modifications of the old prison removals and insertions of new buildings, and thorough redefinition of the grounds and buildings, in particular to do with the way the prison is inserted into its surrounding neighbourhood architecture here serves to support new thinking about correction and reformation.Through the application of the openprison model and the reintegration of a "prison farm," along with architectural gestures that change the constrictive structure of Kingston Penitentiary, a new prison is born.The rate of crime in Canada has decreased in the last ten years yet despite this decline, the rate of incarceration has increased.The thesis asks, more profoundly: "How can architecture assist in reforming the Canadian prison model?"ii
Author: Jessica Wright
Institution: Carleton University
Language: English
Subfield: Architecture
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W2931992369