Forensic Architecture has created an interactive model of a notorious torture prison in Syria, using the eye- and ear-witness accounts of survivors (+ movie).
Forensic Architecture, a research group based at Goldsmiths University in London, produced the interactive model of the prison for the human rights organisation Amnesty International.
The project, named Saydnaya: Inside a Syrian Torture Prison ,aims to show conditions inside Saydnaya, a detention centre for political prisoners that is located 15 miles north of Damascus.

The prison ? described by Amnesty as an "architectural instrument of torture" ? is said to carry out the brutal torture of Syrians suspected of opposing the government regime led by president Bashar al-Assad. Syria has been at civil war since conflict between government and rebel forces broke out in March 2011.
Outsider entrance to the prison is severely restricted, so the digital model is based on the testimonies of survivors.
"In recent years, no visits from independent journalists or monitoring groups that report publicly have been permitted to the prison," explained the team.

"As there are no recent photographs of its interior spaces, the memories of Saydnaya survivors are the only resource with which to recreate the spaces, conditions of incarceration and incidents that take place inside."

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