Ibtisam Dahfer

Level 7

Escape Hotel

The escape hotel… My design vision is to transform Sligo jail from a space of punishment and fear to a space that gives the visitors a unique experience that allows them to escape from their reality. I want to design a world that we close our eyes to see; where the loudness of the world dissolves into a enjoyment, peace and perfection, a world created in our minds when the real world constrains us. The design is inspired by the tally marks and drawings on the jail walls. The quality of time prisoners have in prison doing nothing induces imagination. They feel the length of the time and the length of each second as if the time will never pass. Then they start to use their imagination to escape from reality as it is the only space for them to think freely and create a new reality inside of them.