Article source: C.F. Møller Architects

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.

Image Courtesy © Torben Eskerod

• Architects: C.F. Møller Architects
• Project: Storstrøm Prison
• Location: Blichersvej, Gundslev, Falster, Denmark
• Photography: Torben Eskerod, Steen-Paulsen-Kriminalforsorgen
• Client: The Danish Prison and Probation Service
• Landscape: Levinsen Landskab Aps
• Engineer: Rambøll
• Consultants: CRECEA, aggebo&henriksen
• Size: 32000 m²
• Construction Period: 2010-2016

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