this void marks the entrance to the facility’s parole office, the space that both grants and manifest a version of freedom and subtle confinement. small shutters fold or slide open to reveal offices however, a south-facing opening renders the massive structure relatively lightweight.
the robust mass is skinned in sheet metal, lending the building a solidity that buffers both sound and sight between the confined population and inhabitants of the french town.
the prisoners’ spaces are separated both actually and visually from the community with an L-shaped plan that enables the concrete envelope to remain somehow unobtrusive. the project elevates the presence of industrial buildings that pervade the site with a punctured monolithic volume and streamlined rectilinear layout. LAN architecture has inserted a minimum security prison composed of a CSL (centre for parole) and SPIP (prison service and probation) into nanterre’s residential fabric. LAN architecture designs minimum security prison in nanterre
