Acacia Prison
Wooroloo WA
Acacia Prison was the first prison in Western Australia to be delivered under a design, construct, maintain and operate contract.
The 750-bed medium-security men’s prison, expandable to 900 beds, was designed as a campus-style prison, with accommodation units and other facilities laid out in clusters in landscaped grounds. Our design objective was to develop an internal environment that best approximates a normal community.
The medium-security facility housed level 1, 2 and 3 prisoners in separate accommodation blocks, together with a crisis-care wing, geriatric wing, and detention block. Other facilities included:
- Gatehouse and movement controls
- Visitor reception building outside secure perimeter
- Visits centre
- Administration wing
- Heavy and light industry buildings
- Kitchen, laundry, stores
- Medical centre & prisoner reception
- Recreation building including kiln
- Football oval
CLIENT: AIMS / Peter Hunt
CONSTRUCTION COST: $85m
YEAR: 1999-2001
KEY PERSONNEL: Ralph Bailey, Kavan Applegate, Phil Jackson, Paul Mathieson
(joint venture with Peter Hunt Architect)