Anteproyecto de casa de acogida para mujeres víctimas de violencia en la ciudad de Ambato

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.