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The Architect Joined: 09 Jun 2005 Posts: 184	Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:11 pm    Post subject: Yeah, well said JB. Personally speaking, as if you guys haven't guessed by now, I think Architecture is the single most important aspect of any society. From birth - to death, from cradle to grave, ashes to ashes, (ok I'll stop), no other aspect of society/culture either physical or psychological has as much an influence on a person's ability to develope as an Individual as does Architecture. Take care...
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Richard Haut millennium club Joined: 18 Apr 2004 Posts: 1189 Location: Nice, France	Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:48 am    Post subject: Quote: architecture can be used as a deterrent of crime before one reaches the prison by changing a possibly otherwise negative outlook on life due to their living conditions. a wonderful thought - who could possibly disagree with the ambition of such a statement ? Britain's Prime Minister is deliberately working in the opposite direction. _________________ Richard Haut has worked with the architectural profession for over 25 years and produces the weekly Richard Haut's Competitions, which has given architects details of many thousands of projects for which they can apply across Britain and Europe.
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ahmeds Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Posts: 128 Location: UAE	Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 1:45 am    Post subject: architecture can be used as a deterrent of crime before one reaches the prison by changing a possibly otherwise negative outlook on life due to their living conditions.-JonBailey however this architecture's concept of changing the negative outlook on life to their living condition will only be achieved via country economic support, thus for rich nations this may be possible, but for poor nations only re defining architectural design for prison can al least be common to all in mates. ( i have never been convicted or caught with an crime, and also does not support an thing like that directly or indirectly just airing my views)
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ahmeds Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Posts: 128 Location: UAE	Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 1:58 am    Post subject: JOKE BUT TRUE some few months back i designed a hospital here in UAE, and after completing, i was hospitalised for a day. Now I don;t want to even talk about Prisons again....
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JonBailey Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Posts: 111	Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 3:53 pm    Post subject: ahmeds wrote: [b] however this architecture's concept of changing the negative outlook on life to their living condition will only be achieved via country economic support, thus for rich nations this may be possible, but for poor nations only re defining architectural design for prison can al least be common to all in mates. i dont believe that a nation being poor necessarily means that they cannot afford an archtecture which allows them to have a better lifestyle (or atleast it shouldnt). there are methods of construction which can be done, many not yet devoloped but underway, that does not cost a large amount of money to build. BUT with this said, this is our job, [is it not?] to solve this problem. never should we strive to design and build a prison. yes crime will always exist, but our main focus should be where one of the problems starts, not where it ends. perhaps this is our problem with quite a few issues. _________________ Jon Bailey a r c h i m o r p h
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ahmeds Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Posts: 128 Location: UAE	Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 3:02 am    Post subject: the way I understood you is that we (archiects) should come up with idea to even give slums a good look properly planneed and organised, than leaving them as they are, right? if this is your point then truly speaking, I find your idea very intresting and something to be done.
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P.C. millennium club Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 2163 Location: Denmark	Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:25 pm    Post subject: Paint something like this on the walls.
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Misvit Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 42	Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 11:08 am    Post subject: Check out the layout design and actual changes in procedure and handling of inmates of all the Georgia USA prisons. They have gone from a "cell block" prison structure to new "open space" prisons that have the police officers "living" within the inmates. Instead of walls, everything is visible and boundaries are denoted with painted lines on the floor. "zones" are created for sleeping, eating, exercising, and the prisoner's daily schedules are designed around the zones. EG: "8:00 AM, wake up and move to washing zone, 8:20 AM, leave washing zone and stand in line at cafeteria zone" tasks are given to the prisoners and they are all moved from place to place to be kept busy. Typical hiding areas for weapons have been removed. There are still officers above them and outside of the area watching them at all times besides the 5 officers in with the inmates. It's a pretty good system and has led to less gang activities, violence, and more cooperation between prisoners and guards in snitching/tattletelling on other inmates and even criminals not yet caught.
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ahmeds Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Posts: 128 Location: UAE	Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 3:15 am    Post subject: that is sounding good, but in Kenya ooooh that's impossible! jails are too rotten and that's not good for rehabilitation purpose, of cousre a clean environment and one well made, obvious paves way for fresh mind, thoughts and behaviour something which contibutes to reforms of those in there.
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JonBailey Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Posts: 111	Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:19 pm    Post subject: ahmeds wrote: the way I understood you is that we (archiects) should come up with idea to even give slums a good look properly planneed and organised, than leaving them as they are, right? if this is your point then truly speaking, I find your idea very intresting and something to be done. exactly --yes _________________ Jon Bailey a r c h i m o r p h
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ARCHIMASTER Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Posts: 2	Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 1:34 pm    Post subject: We choose our own way in life. each and every one of us is responsible for they're acts, and every one of us has a right to choose what to do next. looking in the future there are million ways, what to do or say or where to go, but looking back there is only one - the way you've walked so far. Our job is to create quality space for living, work, well organized by the needs and criteriums that mankind sets. No matter if it's a prison or a honey moon sweet. If some one has decided that a man should be locked up for something he did, means that he should live(otherwise he would have been executed) and if he lives he shoud live like a human being. when he steps in to a prison his freedom of choice no longer exists
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lekizz millennium club Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 1212 Location: UK	Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:09 am    Post subject: Interestingly (and from another point of view, ominously) my erstwhile employers are now designing a series of 'super prisons' for the UK. This is what the project director says: “One of the primary aims of modern prison design is to provide the appropriate conditions that will lead to an inmate’s successful rehabilitation. With this in mind, we’ve developed an ethos and concept based upon proven British prison design principals while also contributing to the ‘seven pathways’ of reducing re-offending.” “A key factor in reducing re-offending is to make the life of a prison as close as possible to normal life. As a result, our design has building elements grouped and townscaped around central spaces to promote a feeling of community. The prison is also arranged to provide controlled movement of prisoners of different categories through corridors with direct views onto these central spaces. Each prisoner will therefore have a sense of orientation within the prison and its general organisation, and a clear perception of how it works and the role of individuals within it."
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archiwei Joined: 29 Dec 2006 Posts: 34	Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:29 pm    Post subject: I did a prison design with lots of green space and playground for them to communicate with each other. I think a positive design will result to a positive impact. _________________ ****************************** Architectural Rendering http://www.archiz.com ****************************** Tips & Tutorials for 3D rendering http://archiz-tips.blogspot.com ******************************
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