| dc.description.abstract | Ecuador shows high rates of gender and domestic
violence in which 7 out of 10 women have gone
through mistreatment from their partners. This
situation raises the urgency of engineering safe
spaces, as women’s shelters, where women
along with their children can experience a life
free of violence and receive psychological, legal,
social, educational and economical assistance.
There are ten shelters in the country throughout
many provinces; however, Tungurahua is a
province that does not have resources for this issue,
regardless of the alarming numbers on violence
against women for 10 consecutive years. In this
light, Ambato’s local government and council
for the protection of rights (GADMA and CCPDA,
for their Spanish acronyms correspondingly) look
for an answer to withstand this social problem.
The following project is the stem of a proposal as
the preliminary draft for the Casa de Acogida en la
ciudad de Ambato (Women’s Shelter in Ambato,
in English); based on the analysis of case studies,
the Comprehensive Care model for Shelters for
Women that Experience Violence (Modelo de
Atención Integral Para Casa de Acogida para
Mujeres que viven violencia, in Spanish), the
Analysis Methodology of Context. Interdisciplinary
approach (Metodología de Análisis del Contexto.
Aproximación interdisciplinar, in Spanish) to choose
the place and design strategies to apply in the project. The shelter meets the characteristics of the location,
the population group, the local needs and functions.
It seeks to become a protection, attention and
recovery space for violence survivors and their
children, as an important step towards the restitution
of their rights. The importance of understanding
architecture as a tool in favor of vulnerable groups. | |
