Document Type
Thesis, Senior
Degree
B. ARCH
Date
Spring 2012
Keywords
Puerto Rico, Prison, Hacienda, confinement
Language
English
Disciplines
Architecture
Description/Abstract
"Understanding the similarities between constrained environments in colonial Puerto Rican Haciendas and the typological needs of prison architecture, the exploration of both confinement systems and programs can lead to the re-activation of a typological puertorican plantation. Consequentially a shift from prison's historical identity, from panopticon's main purpose of controlling the masses to a de-centralization of surveillance through the provision of personalized spaces within confined environments can re-structure constrained architecture to produce liberated, flexible spaces, without sacrificing security."
Recommended Citation
Concepcion, Adriana, "Liberated Confinement: Puertorican Hacienda and Prison Environments" (2012). Architecture Senior Theses. 46.
https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_theses/46
Additional Information
Advisors: Timothy Stenson / Vassilena Vassilev