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Abuser Intervention Center

Redefine culture.  Change mindsets.  Giving an alternative to just jail time or in and out counseling, this Abuser Intervention Center is designed around the model Beit Noam program from Israel.  This model promotes communal redevelopment of men to teach how to interact with women and society.  Altering set mindsets and architecturally creating a campus, close quarters feel, to make the abusers interact and react to others there and learn from each other.  This project followed a project flow of going through precedents, sketching and developing a typology and topology, then refining the overall design to fit the program.

Precedents

The precedents chosen for their layouts and how they handled similar programs.  The three chosen were a State Prison in Denmark, Diamond Ranch High School, and the Louisiana MOMA.

Topology and Sketches

Here we took the definition of topology (the connectedness of shapes) and applied it to define our thought process through design.  By sketching through ideas and working through diagrams under the topological model of the Manhattan Transcripts we developed a fluid process to our design that compliments the fluidity of the redevelopment process of abusers.

Final Development

We finally arrived as a group with a lengthy presentation that went into the details of our program, thought process and overall approach to tackling domestic violence through architecture.  The presentation is condensed here for ease.

Abuser Intervention Center

 

Redefine culture.  Change mindsets.  Giving an alternative to just jail time or in and out counseling, this Abuser Intervention Center is designed around the model Beit Noam program from Israel.  This model promotes communal redevelopment of men to teach how to interact with women and society.  Altering set mindsets and architecturally creating a campus, close quarters feel, to make the abusers interact and react to others there and learn from each other.  This project followed a project flow of going through precedents, sketching and developing a typology and topology, then refining the overall design to fit the program.

 
 

Precedents and Research

The precedents chosen for their layouts and how they handled similar programs.  The three chosen were a State Prison in Denmark, Diamond Ranch High School, and the Louisiana MOMA.

Topology and Sketches

Here we took the definition of topology (the connection of shapes) and applied it to define our thought process through design.  By sketching through ideas and working through diagrams under the topological model of the Manhattan Transcripts we developed a fluid process to our design that compliments

Final Development

We finally arrived as a group with a lengthy presentation that went into the details of our program, thought process and overall approach to tackling domestic violence through architecture.  The presentation is condensed here for ease.