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The Industrial Rehabilitation Revolution - TIRR

Part 2 Project 2017
Joe Dempsey
 Manchester School of Architecture Manchester | UK
Is ‘true rehabilitation’ an impossible aspiration?

As a concept it maintains the reproduction of prisons failure to emancipate freedom through capitalist bio-power.

By looking at the real trials and tribulations of everyday life and architecture as a tool of bio-power, the Industrial ‘Rehabilitation’ Revolution aims to raise questions of labour within prison, Rehabilitation as a marketing tool and the architect's role in design and creating better connections within a community.

Joe Dempsey
Tutor(s)

Mr stefan white
2017
A Drone Eyes View’ - From above the clouds we see, ‘The Industrial Rehabilitation’ (TIRR) that sits in the site adjacent to the original prison.
The Plan - Seen above is the masterplan that sits next to the existing prison. Comprising of five workshops, six unique landscape, townscapes and in-TIRR rail connecting it all.
Creating relationships and better opportunities - The Industrial Rehabilitation Revolution is situated with the second largest industrial estate in Europe. TIRR has teamed up with five existing businesses to run medium sized workshops. These include, The
The Commute - I met with a group called ‘On the Out’ who help support people leaving prison re-integrating back in to society. The team is made up of people who have spent time in prison. The people I met with helped to develop the needs and concerns with
The In-TIRR rail simulates something the inmate will inevitably encounter on release. Living your life to a time frame is relevant within today’s society. The In-TIRR rail will recreate the commute on public transport.
Nodes - Once off the In-TIRR rail there is opportunity to run an errand or take a bit of time to yourself or socialise. Whether it be grabbing a coffee or ensuring a job on release.
Sections – at different scales, sections through the Site show the contrast between the intervention and existing prison buildings. Within the ‘hyper-normalised’ TIRR the architecture has responded. Creating an event and ever more different place for the
Top ‘The Cheese Factory - By teaming up with Snowdonia Cheese Company and developing it around inmates being able to work within big groups and manage fast pace work through a linear layout. There is also the ability to take responsibility of their own pl
The Bakery developed in relationship to The Village Bakery and the ability and needs of inmates able to work as part of a big team, with an open workshop floor and opportunity for responsibility and leadership. The ground floor has a canteen, allotments a
Structure by Means of Bio-Power - In response to the existing prison buildings, the high tech-tonics structure questions the presence of BIO-power within an architectural aesthetic. With the space used by the inmates being encased in an external structure
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