THESIS PROJECT

ONE STOP CRISIS CENTRE

REHABILITATION CENTRE FOR RAPE AND
SEXUAL VIOLENCE SURVIVORS
To provide shelter, police desk, legal, medical and counselling services,
psychological rehabilitation and economic rehabilitation to the victims of
sexual violence under one roof integrated with a 24 hour helpline makes the
Centre easily APPROACHABLE in terms of seeking assistance

SHRUTI AGRAWAL
FIFTH YEAR ‘A’ BATCH
ROLL NO - 01
 ONE STOP CRISIS CENTRE
(A Rehabilitation for Rape and Sexual Violence survivors)

INTRODUCTION
Sexual violence is a serious public – health and human rights problem with both short-term and long-term
consequences on women’s physical, mental, and 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. The national conviction rate
in India for offences of the Indian Penal Code is around 46%. This tends to vary state by state. The state with
the highest conviction rate is Kerala, at about 84%, while the one with the lowest rate is Bihar, at around
10%. Throughout 2016, national conviction rate of Indian Penal Code crimes are 46.8%, with 596,078
convicted and 678,270 acquitted/discharged, and also 1,060,724 Convicted under SLL crimes and 226,546
Acquitted or discharged, make conviction rate 82.4% under SLL crimes, making a combined conviction rate
64.67% in India during 2016. More than 34000 rape cases reported in the year 2016. On average, a woman
is raped every 15 minutes.

AGE GROUP(years) Below 6 6 – 12 12 – 16 16 – 18 18 – 30 30 – 45 45 – 60 60 & above TOTAL

& victims per lakh
population
0.8 2.0 11.5 32.0 13.0 4.8 0.9 0.2 6.4

AFTER EFFECTS OF RAPE – PROJECT OVERVIEW –

Helping rape victim recover from the trauma is
PHYSO- SOCIAL
complex as there is need to access the impact of
PHYSICAL counseling and understand the mindset of
LOGICAL
women.
The project aims at architectural translation of
spaces to the behavior and psychology of the
survivors binding them in a community where
- Urinary Infections the survivors will themselves be able to help the
- Pregnancy fellow survivors recover thereby an attempt to
- Sexually Social ostracism create a Home away from a home. It focuses on
transmitted various measures that could be taken
diseases (STDs) architecturally to convert their PAIN INTO
- HIV, genital warts, Abandoned
POWER.
Isolation The program for the project is designed in a way
syphilis and others. from family
to have a long lasting effect on the overall
development of the survivors.
The broad idea is to release the boundaries of
the formal institutional framework into an
informal framework of activities giving freedom
Depression
to the users to use it the way they want to, thus
Guilt and making it more convenient to help the survivors
Anger recover back into their normal lives.
Flashbacks Sleep Disorder
Eating Disorder
GRAPHS SHOWING VARIOUS SITUATIONS

THE GRAPH SHOWING REPORTED CASES OF RAPES PER THE GRAPH SHOWING RAPE CASE COUNT FROM
YEAR ACCORDING TO THE STATE 2012 TO 2018 AND 2019

THE GRAPH SHOWING RAPE CASE COUNT FROM THE GRAPH SHOWING CONVICTION RATE FROM
2006 TO 2017 2006 TO 2017

RAPE CASE REPORT In India, Rape is

the most common
crime and more
than around
30000 women are
raped each year
excluding the
cases not being
reported due to
personal reasons.
REPORTED The percentage of
UNREPORTED unreported cases
is more than the THE GRAPH SHOWING THE VERDICTS OF RAPE CASES
IN DELHI, 2013
reported cases.
 Survivors Journey Through
PROPOSAL Rehabilitation
The proposal of the One Stop Centre Scheme is yet to be
implemented by the government. This plan is very
effective and superficial for the short period of time. Thus Micro
inorder to contribute to the overall development of the
survivors so that they can lead an independent life and a Women victim of Rape
long term effect.

THE IDEA
The idea is to have a planned and systematic distribution Macro
of the resources available.
The One Stop Crisis Centre proposed by the government is
taken forward to create an effective solution to the Primary medication and
problem. Legal care
A city is divided into various zones where Police territorial
jurisdiction is defined.
For eg. If we consider Pune city – it is divided into four
Neighbour-
zones hood level

In maximum cases, patient

ZONE 1 ONE STOP CENTRE
goes through Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder, Social
City ostracism, etc.
ZONE 2 ONE STOP CENTRE RAPE SURVIVORS
level
AND WOMEN
WELFARE
ZONE 3 ONE STOP CENTRE ORGANISATION

Who can approach the center?

ZONE 4 ONE STOP CENTRE Psychological Rehabilitation
1. A Rape survivor who has gone
through preliminary stages of
medical, legal support and
EVOLVING DESIGN PROGRAMME counseling through ONE STOP
CENTER can approach for seeking
The center will function on four basic further rehabilitation.
pillars of – REHABILITATION
2. Abandoned women victims of Rape
- Prevention and sexual violence, for shelter and
- Advocacy economic rehabilitation.
3. A survivor who has not recovered Shelter homes for abandoned
- Rehabilitation
from trauma even after years of women and children survivors
- Reintegration incidence.
PREVENTION REINTEGRATION

“Create a victim friendly ‘just world’ for survivors to fully enjoy their basic rights”.
How can the rehabilitation program and center help solve this problem?

Goes for Economic Rehabilitation for

Rehab
Center
1. She emerges out as a
confident lady with an identity
and a determined vision
2. These rehabilitated women
are ready to merge with the
society
adult, educational center for
3. They will act as Volunteers
children with their civic identity
generated by the center who will
not only stand for violence but
also against any other women.

4. In many cases,
Does not the victim
becomes more
Social Reintegration in the
go for
Rehab
1. Lack of self- 2. May not turn out to 3. More prone to prone to form of Family reunion or
confidence, body be strong enough to reoccurrence of similar committing
Center with dead soul resist in the society such incidence in future suicides. Independent Living.
OBEJCTIVES
1. Assist people with mental illness in leading more productive and autonomous lifestyles, and to promote
mental health through service, advocacy, and education.
2. To understand person’s mental illness and help them to recover and help them come out of the trauma
according to the user group.
3. To convince the victims and give them a reason to approach the Centre.
4. To redefine the concept of Psychological Rehabilitation.
5. To create a environment where the survivors will themselves be able to help the fellow survivors
recover.
6. To design the project in such a way that the survivors should have a long tem effect on their overall
development.
7. To maintain the Transparency and clarity of activities going inside the Centre.
8. Designing for such user group, the primary architectural and psychological concern was to make spaces
responsive to the actions, behavioral pattern and psychology of the users thus creating a USER-
RESPONSIVE design.
9. To create and design spaces for Counseling in a less formal way considering the natural pattern of
effective interaction between the counselor and the victim.
10. To design the spaces considering the safety of the victims by way of constant supervision by authorities
or by other fellow survivors.
11. To create spaces that would channelize their emotions in order to bring positivity in their lives and
surroundings.
12. To design spaces for social interaction.
13. To design the project using energy efficient systems for which design strategies should be studied.

NEED AND IMPORATANCE OF THE PROJECT

1. The victims should also have a normal life as others so there is a need to help them come of this
trauma.
2. The victims are more to harming themselves and also they are filled with all negative things.
3. So it is necessary to help these women so that in future they can be an example for the other fellow
survivors who are scared to share the critical situations which happen with them becoming an
volunteer.

SITE

The site should be selected near to the Police The second site is in Jodhpur or Kota in
territorial jurisdiction. The first site is in Rajasthan as these places are the second most
Yerwada, Pune which is a proposed site by the popular cities for Rape and sexual violence.
government. There is a need for such Centre in these places.

PROPOSED SITE
PROPOSED SITE
LIVE AND LITERATURE CASE STUDIES

1. Muktangan Rehabilitation Centre – Yerwada, Pune

2. Jagruti Rehabilitation Centre – Mumbai
3. Rehabilitation Centre for victims of Domestic and Sexual violence – Kampala,
Uganda.
4. For sustainable approach : Suzlon One Earth – Hadapsar, Pune

AREA PROGRAMME

1. Administration
2. Advocacy
3. Legal Counseling Pods
4. Medical Centre
5. Adult Shelter Home
6. Children Shelter Home
7. Kitchen & Dining
8. Emergency Shelter
9. Canteen
10.Amphitheatre
11.Guest Accommodation
12.Children’s Education Centre
13.Psychological Rehabilitation
Centre
14.Adult Counseling Pod
15.Minor Victim Counseling Pod
16.Group Counseling
17.Contemplation Zone
18.Staff Quarters
19.Tailoring Training
20.Soft Skill Training
21.Market
22.Farming
23.Tiffin Service and Packaging
24.Workshop and Gallery
25.Staff Parking
26.Visitor's Parking