Rationale

The national penitentiary institutions operated by the BuCor are severely congested and worn out. The
living conditions do not meet minimum international standards.

Overcrowding is of course dangerous to everyone’s health. It does not only breed diseases but also
breaks down discipline and worsens tensions. A prison should provide safe and secure conditions for
prisoners and staff, and a decent quality of life. The current system of the prison is built to penalize and
not to rehabilitate.

The Central Luzon Prison and Penal Farm will be the solution to the common problems such as
overpopulation, and undignified physical and mental health of prisoners and to degenerate
environmental quality in building a clear sense of space planning, built environment and security but will
also experience different atmosphere compared to the traditional small prison facilities.

This project will be the first penal farm in the area of Central Luzon because most of the existing penal
farm is located at the Visayas and Mindanao Region.

The characteristics of a prison and penal farm will give opportunities for those convicted with minor
crimes that have minimal punishments.

A Prison and Penal Farm would give hope for the prisoners are put to economical use in a farm, usually
for manual labor, such as in agriculture and other livelihood industry.

Design Goal and Objectives

Main Goal

To tackle common problem such as overpopulation, and undignified physical and mental health of
prisoners and to degenerate environmental quality in building a clear sense of space planning, built
environment and security but will also experience different atmosphere compared to the traditional
small prison facilities.

Objectives

 To construct a modern prison facility with higher security standards

 To conduct practice of modern prisoner treatment philosophies such as reformatory movement
which aims the reintegration of the prisoners to the society
 To solve the present prison overpopulation and meet the expected future growth of the number
of prisoners
 To ensure prisoner dignity through decent accommodations and humanitarian processes
towards reformation
 To create an environment for the inmates to make them build their broken lives and start living
a good life
Design Considerations

SECURITY

CIRCULATION

ACCESSIBILITY

ORIENTATION

NATURAL LIGHTING AND VENTILATION

SUSTAINABILITY

*WASTE MANAGEMENT

Design Philosophy

“All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable” – Frank Lloyd Wright

Systems

Motion detector - a device that detects moving objects, particularly people. Such a device is often
integrated as a component of a system that automatically performs a task or alerts a user of motion in
an area.

Security alarm - a system designed to detect intrusion – unauthorized entry – into a building or other
area.

Mobile phone jammer or Blocker - a device which deliberately transmits signals on the same radio
frequencies as mobile phones, disrupting the communication between the phone and the cell-phone
base station, effectively disabling mobile phones within the range of the jammer, preventing them from
receiving signals and from transmitting them.

Gate locking mechanisms -

Press/push button alarms -

Designated emergency telephone system

Sirens and bells

Key alarm system

Double gates and doors

CCTV systems