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Location: Halden, Norway
Capacity: 248-252
Population: 251(as of 2015)
Year of construction: April 8. 2010
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approach to crime and punishment. Norway focuses intensely on
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ensuring that" doing time" is done in a dignified way, and
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inmates' sentence should be a dress rehearsal for living a life
without crime once they have completed their sentence. The SUBJECT
Halden Prison in Halden, Norway is considered to be the world's
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most humane prison.'
HALDEN PRISON
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LAYOUT OF THE PRISON
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Halden prison is designed in campus layout, Facilities are split
between separate buildings, with a surrounding perimeter wall.
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So, inmates have to stait their day with commute – mimicking life
in the outside world, providing easy access to outdoor physical
activity and gives inmates a rich view of their surrounding
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emphasis is on good relationships, good design, quality of
materials and strength into forms.
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CULTURE
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The on-going debate about prisons as a form of architecture,
and Halden Prison in particular, concerns the question of
what the goal of incarceration really is: punishment or
rehabilitation? This prison was designed as a middle-ground
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prison system. DATE: 12-03-2025
84 Inmates in each unit
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Operational 2010 Primarely convicts
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Building cost and inventory; 1,4 billion NOK , approx. Living unit
250 million USD UNIT B AND C PROJECT TITLE
Inmates DESKTOP STUDY -2
total of 251 – Norway’s second largest prison
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Staff – correctional services – 290
The ”import model” – additonal staff – approx. 50
Surrounded by a 1.4 km long ring wall. The wall is 6 m
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150 000 m2 plot area inside the walls. N.T.S
27 000 m2 in buildings inside and outside wall The strictest prison unit
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12 SQM, PRIVATE
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FLAT SCREEN TV AND REFRIGERATOR
TOILET/SHOWER, NO BARS
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for inmates who have children. Here they
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ART OF THE PRISON
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with the inmates and staff."
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•Education
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•Library
•Service centre
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Other prisons
In other prisons, interiors are made from SIGNATURE REMARKS
hard matcrials, which block light, visually
unappealing, and constantly reflect noise.
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The facility is located in forested area with several building each
with its own look and material, the intention being to produce a
variety filled prison. Depending on the level of security, the
facades alternate, from untreated wood to very dark brick –
colours and materials reiterated in the area’s rocks and
vegetation. The buildings have been constructed from nature’s
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design-:
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world
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(unlike the other
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