By winning the competition for the redevelopment of the secure psychiatric hospital at the Les Marronniers centre in Tournai, the team made up of AAdd and Archipelago confronts the opportunities and limits offered by architecture to make a closed institution more human.

A forensic psychiatric centre (FPC) is a place where inmates are detained. In Belgium, the judicial authorities exempt a person who has committed a crime or an offence from criminal prosecution if it is recognised that he or she was suffering from a mental disorder at the time of the offence. The provision of medical care to that person is required by law. Through compulsory admission or placement, they are then sent to an FPC. This internment is therefore a kind of imposed exile that must comply with both the laws of justice and the regulations of the healthcare system. After all, the internee is someone who not only poses a danger to others in the vicinity, but who may also seriously harm their own health and safety. Their confinement is also intended precisely to protect them.