Research On The Place Of Morden Prison Buildings Space

As one of the most important part of state power, prisons comprehensively reflectthe civilization degree of society and embody the stamp of the age. With longhistorical development, prisons have gradually progressed into places whereprisoners get punishment and reform, as well as action correction and education,instead of cages in the past that punishing and imprisoning prisoners were the mainfunctions of prisons. China has got remarkable progress in developing system,management, execution and facilities of prisons in recent years. However,comparing with most building types, the architectural design of prisons get lessopportunity to be put into practice, causing few designing works. At the same time,architects have little knowledge of prison buildings and pay few attentions to theaspects of prison functions like prison correction and humanization. And to prisoners,the environment of prisons has an important effect on rebuilding their souls exceptfor deterring the public. Therefore creating nice and positive prison environment atthe same time of executing state power has significant meanings to rebuildingprisoners.As a comparatively particular architectural type, prison buildings should havetheir particular places. Expect for the basic architectural expression, the resonancebetween human and environment should also be struck, which is up to the theory ofPlace and Place Spirit from Robert Schultz. Treating prison buildings of Jilin City asresearch object and Place Theory as research theoretical basis, the paper comes upwith the place particularity of prison building space in full consideration of thespecial background and impacting factors of prison buildings as well as the behavingand psychological features of prisoners. And then the paper analyzes thatparticularity in depth from four aspects including the mixture of environment, the Combination of regional culture, the shaping of places and the building ofspace atmosphere. After that in combination of the execution principle and the actualsituation of prisons in China, the paper discusses the architectural space of prisonbuildings by means of researching the local prisons in person. Some referencesuggestions to the future architecting of prison buildings come to the end of thepaper.