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Final design project completed with Diploma Unit 12 at the Architectural Association, London in 2018

Tutors: Inigo Minns and Manijeh Verghese

At a time of a much-needed reinvention, can rehabilitation become a process sustained between simulations, emerging multi-sensory technologies and the walls of the prison itself? Can aspects of open-world video games be deployed as new platforms in which a third space can be designed in order to accommodate for the prisoners of the future?

Angels Alone describes a prison set in the year 2035 where prisoners are rehabilitated through virtual and simulated realities. It proposes the creation of a third space to facilitate a rehabilitation program inspired by models of open-world role play games, simulation training and virtual therapies