The prison was designed by the Danish group Erik Møller Architects and the British HLM Architects selected in a competition held by the Department of Justice and the Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction and Property to determine the designers of the building.
The prison was designed by the Danish group Erik Møller Architects and the British HLM Architects. The group of architects first met the place in 2002 for the competition held by the Department of Justice and the Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction and Property to select the designers of the building.