Abstract:
Crime against women is a serious public health and human rights problem with both short- and long-term consequences on women’s physical, mental, sexual and reproductive health. Crimes against women gets reported every two minutes in India. As many as 2.24 million such crimes were reported over the past decade. Rape is the fourth most common crime against women in India. Helping victim recover from the trauma is complex as there is need to assess the impact of counselling and understand the mindset of women. The project aims at architectural translation of spaces to the behavior and psychology of the survivors binding them in a community where the survivors will themselves be able to help the fellow survivors recover, thereby an attempt to create a Home away from Home. It focuses on various measures that could be taken architecturally to convert their Pain into Power. The program for the project is designed in a way to have a long lasting effect on the overall development of the survivors .The broad idea is to Unleash the Boundaries of the Formal institutional framework into an informal framework of activities giving flexibility and freedom to the users to use it the way they want to, thus making it more Approachable in order to help the survivors recover back into their normal lives.
