499.summit / birds-eye view
499.summit carefully challenges all preconceived notions of the word “prison”, and proposes simple yet powerful ideas that re-imagine the high-rise as an urban penitentiary. the massing consists of three towers in the shape of an arch. the inherent linear and formal qualities of the ‘arch’ allowed us to establish our key circulatory concept: up, over, down. each arch has three primary phases, incarceration (up), transformation (over), and integration (down). the arches begin isolated during the incarceration phase and merge together both physically and programmatically during the integration phase. as the inmates graduate through the facility, they are being exposed to an increasing degree of social interaction, in order to make the transition back into society as soft as possible. to catalyst this process, public program and residential housing units are introduced in the integration phase downwards.
499.summit / ground condition 01
499.summit //ground condition 02
499.summit / ground condition 03
499.summit / aerial
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499.summit / ground plan
499.summit / program+circulation diagram
499.summit / strategy
499.summit / core-segmentation
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