West Kimberley Regional Prison

West Kimberley Regional Prison is a unique campus style Prison designed for the unique social and cultural needs of Kimberley Aboriginal Prisoners.
The collaboration between TAG Architects and Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects has produced an environmentally, socially and economically sustainable facility which is already being hailed as an exemplar nationally and internationally.

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Sited in a natural bushland setting the landscape has been preserved to create a reflective and peaceful facility for staff, prisoners and visitors alike.
42 buildings cluster around a football oval in the form of a utopian “Aboriginal Community” where 120 male and 30 female prisoners live in self care accommodation- learning life skills, numeracy, literacy and technical education and undergoing rehabilitation during their prison sentences.

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The facility contains Prisoners from all security levels- and the womens’ area is separated from the mens’ area by a landscaped berm and the Medical Centre.
Visitors come into the heart of the prison to the Family Visits Centre on the edge of the oval- with views to the houses, the education and recreation areas.
The form of the buildings is of a series of pavilions sheltered by an undulating series of “ribbon roofs” provide out door activity areas and breezeway verandahs.