Transformation: reimagining Aalborg Women's Crisis Shelter
Study:
MSc Architecture
Students:
Kamilla Tind Kristensen and Pernille Bjerregaard
Transformation: reimagining Aalborg Women's Crisis Shelter
Transformation: reimagining Aalborg Women's Crisis Shelter
Study:
MSc Architecture
Students:
Kamilla Tind Kristensen and Pernille Bjerregaard
Over 100.000 women in Denmark are a subject to domestic violence every year (Dansk Kvindesamfunds Krisecentre, n.d.). This creates a major demand for safe and supportive crisis shelters where they can heal from their experiences and receive help to break free from the cycle of abuse that they find themselves in. Even with the importance of these institutions, they are often obliged to turn down women in need due to lack of accommodation space.
This project therefore focuses on the transformation of an old dormitory into a modern women’s crisis shelter that contributes to a faster and steady healing process through the work with social sustainability, design tools of healing architecture as well as creating an increased sense of perceived safety. The project is a proposal for a way of preserving much of a larger existing building with different user needs while at the same time de-institutionalizing the typology in order to generate a feeling of hominess. It also proposes that the presence of the institution and the activity from ambulant counseling and workplace facilities for the staff will increase the perceived safety.
Dansk
Over 100.000 kvinder i Danmark udsættes hvert år for vold i hjemmet (Dansk Kvindesamfunds Krisecentre, u.å.). Dette skaber et stort behov for trygge og støttende krisecentre, hvor kvinderne kan bearbejde deres oplevelser og få hjælp til at bryde den voldsspiral, de befinder sig i. På trods af disse institutioners vigtige rolle er de ofte nødsaget til at afvise kvinder i nød på grund af manglende plads.
Dette projekt fokuserer derfor på transformationen af et gammelt kollegium til et moderne krisecenter for kvinder, der bidrager til en hurtigere og mere stabil helingsproces gennem arbejdet med social bæredygtighed, helende arkitektur og en øget oplevelse af tryghed. Projektet er et forslag til, hvordan man kan bevare en stor eksisterende bygningsmasse med forskellige brugerbehov og samtidig af-institutionalisere typologien for at skabe en følelse af hjemlighed. Det foreslås desuden, at institutionens tilstedeværelse og aktiviteter – såsom ambulant rådgivning og arbejdspladser til personalet – vil bidrage til en øget oplevet tryghed.