THESIS SYNOPSIS

2020-21

SEEKING BACHELOR’S IN
ARCHITECTURE

TOPIC 1-
WIDOW REHABILITATION CENTRE
TOPIC 2-
SOS CHILDREN VILLAGE
TOPIC 3-
JUVENILE HOME

TANEESHA
B.ARCH 5 TH YEAR
1160101070
BBDU, LUCKNOW
 SYNOPSIS 1
WIDOW
REHABILITATION
CENTRE
◦ “AFTER THE DEATH OF MY HUSBAND, MY CHILDREN FORCED ME TO
LEAVE THE HOUSE. I WAS THROWN OUT WITH NO CLOTHES TO EVEN
COVER MY BODY. PEOPLE TOLD ME TO GO TO VRINDAVAN AS NOW ONLY
LORD KRISHNA CAN SAVE ME FROM THE WORLD. HERE, I WAIT FOR
DEATH EVERY DAY SO THAT I GET SOME RELIEF.”
◦ This is the common story of widows found on the streets of Vrindavan. Widow, as
ostracised section of society, faces a lot of hardships after the death of her husband.
Widows, old or young, share a common loss of respect and dignity from the family and
society. The project intends to make them independent and self sufficient to live a fruitful
life ahead and thus, granting them a state of moksha that releases them from the harsh
reality cages of being widows.
◦ The cities of Vrindavan and Varanasi – referred to as the “widow cities” of India –
welcome thousands of widows every year; those who have no other place left to go.
These cities are home to a large number of dingy, suffocated, guest houses and “ashrams”
where impoverished and abandoned widows spend the remainder of their lives.
 HISTORY AND BACKGROUND
◦ In ancient India (or Vedic period), women had high esteem in the society. They
availed the right to education, and liberty in the right of choice of the spouses
(Swyamvar). In respect of widowhood too, the norms were flexible enough. A
widow had several options like Sahamaranathat is, voluntarily joining the dead
husband on his funeral pyre. There was also the process of Niyog: a procedure
through which a widow could conceive another man’s child if she desired to do so
and thereafter spend the rest of her life nurturing the child, alternatively she could
also opt for Brahmacharya that is rigid celibacy where she ceases perform any sexual
activity. She also had the option of finding another spouse of her choice.
◦

◦ But during the later Vedic age and the early medieval era, the sublime status of
women went on a downslide. In the opinion of 2000 year old text by Manu, the
Hindu primogenitor of mankind: “A righteous wife is one who after the death of her
husband constantly remains chaste and reaches heaven though she has no son.
”Traditions like ‘widow-burning’ or Sati framed the patterns of social behavior of
Hindu society for widows. The conduct towards them turned to be extremely unjust
and sadistic. Conventionally, the widow was held responsible for her husband’s death.
Even the shadow of a widow was believed to inflict depredation and brought ill luck.
It was also believed that once her husband died, the wife should pronounce all
comforts of home. She should wear a plain white sari as a sign of lamentation. The
appearance of widows at rituals, ceremonies and celebrations was considered
unpropitious. Those coming from orthodox families, in some cases, even shove the
woman’s head after the death of husband. This was particularly done to make the
widow sexually unattractive, so that no man is attracted to her or she never gets
married.
 NEED OF THE TOPIC
◦ The concerns of widows cannot be dissociated from those of other single women,
or indeed from those of women in general. Widows do experience special difficulties
and deprivations, connected, inter alia, with the restrictions that are imposed on their
lifestyle and the persistence of negative social attitudes towards them. In the context
of social science research, it is right to give attention to widowhood as a particular
cause of deprivation. And, in the context of social action, it is right to organise and
support widows in their specific demands (e g, relating to pensions, property rights
and other entitlements)
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

AIM
The proposal is called for a safe house and shelter for women in difficult
circumstances, designed to provide a flexible and innovative approach to cater to the
needs of various women in distress. Shelter and protection will be provided, in
addition to access to services including counsellors, medical doctors, legal advice and
protection. The safe house seeks to address the specific vulnerability of each group
of women in difficult circumstances through integrated approaches.

OBJECTIVES
(i)To provide primary need of shelter, food, clothing and care to the marginalized
women/girls living in difficult circumstances who are without any social and
economic support.
(ii)To rehabilitate them socially and economically through education, awareness, skill
up graduation and personality development through behavioral training etc.
(iii)To arrange for specific clinical, legal and other support for women/girls in need
of those intervention by linking and networking with other organizations in both
Govt. and Non-Govt. sector on case to case basis.
 SCOPE AND LIMITATONS

◦ SCOPE
The project would focus on mostly the vulnerable part of the society, and the project
would cater rehabilitation center and proper housing area, for short stay and long
stay victims.
 METHODOLOGY
• To analyse the site with
respect to climate,
location, physiography,
SITE STUDY surrounding ,historical
background of that
region on the basis of the
design to be done.

• Case studies to be done

so as to be clear about the
functionality of the
LITERATURE
STUDY project and come out
from the merits and
demerits aspect of the
project.

• The study is either from

the books or from the
internet to clear out more
CASE STUDY concepts and can do
research on the topic and
extract.

REQUIREMENTS, • The required areas are

FRAMING AND framed out and area chart
AREA ANALYSIS
has to be finalized.

CONCEPT

DESIGN STAGES

FINAL
DESIGN
SITE DETAILS
◦ SITE AREA- 5.5ACRES
◦ SITE LOCATION- IT IS LOCATED BEHIND OMAXE ETERNITY CASTLE
ON THE CHHATIKARA- VRINDAVAN ROAD.
◦ SITE CONNECTIVITY-
◦ ADJACENT TO PARIKRAMA MARG
◦ NEAREST HOSPITAL- PARAS MANI HOSPITAL
◦ DELHI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IS THE NEAREST AIRPORT 162KM
AWAY.
◦ NEAREST RAILWAY STATION IS IN MATHURA, 16.2 KM AWAY.
◦ THE INTER CITY AND INTER STATE BUS TERMINAL OF VRINDAVAN IS
17.5KM VIA NH19 AND NH44.
◦ NEARBY LANDMARK-
◦ SRI KUNJ BIHARI SEWA DHAM
◦ VRINDAVAN TIWARI TEMPLE
◦ MRC AYURVEDA HOSPITAL
◦ OMAXE ETERNITY CASTLE

OMAXE ETERNITY CASTLE MRC AYURVEDA HOSPITAL

VRINDAVAN BIHARI TEMPLE SRI KUNJ BIHARI SEWA DHAM

PROPOSED CASE STUDIES

◦ 1.MAITRI GHAR VIDWA ASHRAM, VRINDAVAN, U.P.

◦ 2.MAHILA ASHRAY SADAN, SWADHAR YOJNA, VRINDAVAN, U.P.
◦ 3. VIDHWA SAHAY ASHRAM, VRINDAVAN, U.P.
 SYNOPSIS 2
SOS CHILDREN’S
VILLAGE
INTRODUCTION

◦ STREET CHILDREN
◦ Today’s children are the future of tomorrow. Since they create the world of
tomorrow, they are at the heart of social development. The future depends on how
children prepare themselves to enter into the world of work. Children who are
healthy, well-fed and educated, grow up to be productive, innovative workers and
responsible adults. But to-day more than one billion of children are condemned to
poverty, without jobs, without basic necessities, without hope.
◦ Poverty is the root cause for the incidence and prevalence that causes the major
dilemma encountered throughout the cities, nations, states and the entire world of
homeless children and adults. Due to reasons urban poverty aberrant families,
urbanization, migration, least interest in education, broken family, cruelty, physical
abuse, mental torture etc, give birth to these most easily susceptible group of
children called street children. These children runaway from their home at very
tender age of around 7 to 12 years to neighbouring cities or cities that can help
them fulfil requirements and work with unrecognized area in order to suffice their
basic needs and earn sometime to accomplish their family needs.
INTRODUCTION
◦ The United Nations estimates that there are about 2.5lakh street children in
Mumbai. According to UN high commissioner for human rights, India has the
largest number of street children around 18 million.
◦ Children are the future of the nation, For an emerging country like India,
development of underprivileged children holds the to the progress of the nation
itself, and their education is the cornerstone of this progress UNICEF estimated
that there were 11million street children in India. Most of the children in India are
over 6 and majority is over 8. 72% of the street children studied were age 6-12.
India has the largest population of street children in the world.
◦ WHO ARE STREET CHILDREN?
◦ Street children are those who work and live on the streets, parks, pavements. Bus
stations, railway stations and public places having the sky as their roof without
safety and security and who are below the age of 18 years.
◦ They can be classified into three categories:
◦ Children of the street family: They are the children of family who is/ was staying
on the streets. These children also stay with their parents on the roadsides,
footpaths, railway stations.
◦ Children on the street: They are the children that visit the streets or are on the
streets for the entire day and or nights and return home rarely.
◦ Children of the street: They are entirely on the streets. They have no family or
relatives to look upon. They are all independent.
ABOUT SOS CHILDREN’S
VILLAGE
◦ SOS Children's Villages is an independent, non-governmental, nonprofit
international development organization headquartered in Innsbruck, Austria.
The organization provides humanitarian and developmental assistance to
children in need and protects their interests and rights around the world.
◦ Founder: Hermann Gmeiner
◦ Founded: 1949, Imst, Austria
◦ Purpose: LDS Humanitarian Services
◦ Headquarters: Innsbruck, Austria
◦ President: Siddharta Kaul
◦ Honorary President: Helmut Kutin
◦ 33 SOS Children’s Village across India.
◦ Currently, 6500 children are growing up in SOS-India children’s village in 21
states.
◦ 3rd generation of children being brought up.
◦ SOS Children’s Village of India is also reaching out to over 15,500 children
throughout this community based strengthening program.
◦ Each SOS Children’s Village constitutes of 15-20 family home.
◦ The SOS family consists of 9 or 10 children, who share their lives as brothers
and sisters.
◦ They grow in the care of an SOS mother- like in any family.
◦ Children attend local schools and keep in close contact with neighbouring
families.
HISTORY AND BACKGROUND

◦ The first SOS Children’s Village was founded by Hermann Gmeiner, an

Austrian philanthropist , in 1949 in Imst, Austria. Since then, the
organization has been active and expanding throughout the world. At
present, SOS Children’s Villages is active in over 136 countries and
territories with over 500 SOS Children’s Villages and 400 SOS Youth
Facilities striving for the welfare of the children in need of care and
protection.
In India, the organization caters to over 25,000 children and there are 32
SOS Children’s Villages in 22 states in India.
 NEED OF THE TOPIC
◦ Orphanages are able to care for more children than a widow on her own.
◦ Children are often sent to these institutions as a way of relieving a widow from the
stress of providing for her family on very little income. Orphans in orphanages are
given a safe environment in which to grow, given somewhere to sleep, regular food
and schooling, and visit their families often. Most important though, is
that children in orphanages are given a stable lifestyle that they would not find at
home. They’re offered a routine and a calm space in places often affected by war
and crime.
◦ By supporting those institutions that are already set up (making them bigger and
better), we will have more of an impact
 WHAT CAN BE DONE?

Informal
Development Training
Education

Experience

Awareness Interaction

Upliftment Creativity

Health care Upbringing

Hygiene Employment
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

• Increasing access for orphans and the disadvantaged children to primary

and secondary education and or vocational training and assisting young
people to develop health lifestyles to become responsible citizens
• Provision of legal education and support which enables families to
secure property rights

• Promoting the awareness of HIV/AIDS and provision of services to

reduce the risk of vulnerability of young people and the Impact of HIV in
the targeted areas.

• Provision of home care services to vulnerable families and children to

sustain their lives.

• Conduct workshops to help the community to make informed decisions.

• To promote the knowledge of commercial farming for purposes of

income generation
◦ To help the helpless, hopeless and hungry orphan children and semi
orphan children with the free food, free shelter, free education, free
medical assistance etc., irrespective of caste, creed and class and
religion and race.
SCOPE AND LIMITATION

◦ SCOPE
Therefore there is a need to pamper, support, educate and provide basic facilities to
these children so that they can take wise decisions, support themselves and their
families in future, instead of becoming a factor for multiplication of street children.
This project will help the helpless street children of India have a new direction in
their life and even they can think of a better career rather than being involved n
crime cases and ruining their life in pain and illegal activities.
The project will help building the youth of India for nation’s progress and make
them a responsible and respectful citizen.
 METHODOLOGY
• To analyse the site with
respect to climate,
location, physiography,
SITE STUDY surrounding ,historical
background of that
region on the basis of the
design to be done.

• Case studies to be done

so as to be clear about the
functionality of the
LITERATURE
STUDY project and come out
from the merits and
demerits aspect of the
project.

• The study is either from

the books or from the
internet to clear out more
CASE STUDY concepts and can do
research on the topic and
extract.

REQUIREMENTS, • The required areas are

FRAMING AND framed out and area chart
AREA ANALYSIS
has to be finalized.

CONCEPT

DESIGN STAGES

FINAL
DESIGN
SITE DETAILS

◦ SITE AREA- 6.5ACRES

◦ LOCATION- B BLOCK, SECTOR 62, NOIDA.
◦ LAND TYPE- Flat land with no contours.
◦ SITE ACCESSIBILITY-

1.SITE IS 20KMS AWAY FROM THE NEAREST HINDON

AIRPORTIT IS 9.6KMS AWAY FROM NEAREST SAHIDABAD
RAILWAY STSTION.
2.It is 8KMS AWAY FROM NOIDA BUS STATION

IMPORTANT LANDMARK-
1. IIM LUCKNOW
2. AMAZON DEVELOPMENT CENTER
.
PROPOSED CASE STUDY

◦ SOS CHILDREN’S VILLAGE, BHUBANESHWAR

◦ SOS CHILDREN’S VILLAGE, BHOPAL
 SYNOPSIS 3
JUVENILE HOME
INTRODUCTION
◦ ABOUT JUVENILE
◦ Juvenile or Children are a conflict with law referred to children under the age of 18
years and suspected or accused of committing a crime or be part of illegal activity.
Children in conflict with law cannot be arrested by a police officer and can only be
apprehended. Only minors between the age of 16-18 years committed heinous
crimes can be treated and tried as adults.
◦ The child in conflict with law cannot be tried in criminal courts and should be
produced before the Juvenile Justice Board Chaired by a Magistrate and two social
worker members. The idea of having social workers on the Juvenile Justice Board
is to handle the child with concern to his/her future and to treat them with proper
care.
◦ The major concern on the detention of a child in conflict with law is to make
him/her understand and repent for the crime committed. After the Juvenile Justice
Board stipulated detention the child may be released on probation. Great care is
required to reintegrate the Juvenile back into society. The rehabilitation of the
child in conflict with the law has to be done with the considerations to his/her age,
mental and physical makeup.
◦ Childcare institutions and social welfare organisations work hand in hand with
government nodal agencies to find constructive solutions to the rehabilitation of
the Juvenile. To ensure this Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) are laid down by
the Ministry of women and child development. Follow up by social workers and
probation or parole officer is done periodically to make sure the child reintegrate
well into the society he/she was once barred from.
INTRODUCTION
◦ REHABILITATION-
◦ The primary motto of punishment is to make the convict understand the grievous
nature of the crime committed and regret his/her actions. Hence after the
completion (full or partial) of the sentence, the convict has to be prepared to get
back into society. The ex-convicts always viewed with a suspicious mind by the
general public. Hence the ex-convicts should be prepared mentally and may be
taught skill sets to improve their job ability.
◦ Special programs to prevent substance abuse, improve mental health, continuing
education was framed for sexual offenders, women parolees and children in
conflict with the law. The importance slowly downgraded as the twentieth century
progressed towards its end. It regained momentum as human rights concerns are
high on the activists’ list.
◦ REHAB FOR JUVENILES-
◦ While the juveniles held accountable for their violation of the law and kept in
juvenile homes or other relevant correctional facilities for public safety, the primary
aim is to rehabilitate them. The rehabilitative process includes psychological
assessment of the crime committed by the juvenile and the environment, causing it
to happen, therapeutic guidance, skill development, involving them in yoga and
other mind developing activities.
◦ Financial constraints of the government wade rehabilitation away and involvement
of social workers and non-profit organizations resulted in cost-effective multi-
modal rehab programs for the juveniles
NEED OF THE TOPIC
◦ The society in India has been facing an increase in problems regarding youth
groups and individuals that are committing crimes and misbehaviour actions that
are mainly unsolved and ignored. In such a community with a limitation on
resources for youth, it is necessary to recognize the importance of a “juvenile
detention centre” in order to solve problems in the society properly and hope for a
better future for the youth and general public. In 2011, the juvenile crimes in India
were 25,125, and 1.7mn juveniles accused of crimes, 64% of the juveniles crimes
were committed by those in the 16-18 age group. Keeping this mind, it is
important to acknowledge that crime rate in India has been increasing due to many
factors that are affecting the modern life. Relating the crime rate numbers to the
juvenile offenders, it is observed that the problems of troubled youth has been
steadily increasing, and there are no proper discipline programs that are developed
to keep them away from committing more crime.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
◦ AIMS-
◦ Reducing mental pressure in juvenile centre through architecture.
◦ The goal of the centre is to care, teach. And discipline children and adolescences
while providing them with a safe place for them to make constructive changes in
their lives by providing proper basic needs and security, educational, vocational and
health and medical facilities.
◦ To give them a place where they can be nurtured, carved and their basic rights are
preserved.
◦ OBJECTIVES-
◦ To reduce the intimidating effect of the institution.
◦ To provide the juveniles with spaces to stay, work and learn in a peaceful
environment.
◦ To make the institution, a city in itself to reduce the differences between a normal
life and a life of incarceration so that the idea of commuting from place to place
remains intact.
◦ To create a public interface which would help a juvenile to reintegrate with the
society after being kept in an isolation.
◦ To reduce the idea of direct surveillance.
◦ Provide proper physical and emotional care.
SCOPE AND LIMITATION
◦ SCOPE-The scope of the project is very wide as if it takes into consideration all
necessary facilities and latest provisions in the field of rehabilitation of juveniles
rehabilitation will include:
◦ Administration and faculty
◦ Juvenile court hall
◦ Special education
◦ Vocational training
◦ Services and programming
◦ Juvenile housing
◦ Health and medical services
◦ Library
◦ Computer lab
◦ Dining facility
◦ LIMITATIONS-
◦ As the photography of such high security institutions is not permitted by the law,
the study has to be carried out using non classified data and secondary sources.
◦ The architecture and maintenance of a juvenile home depends on the funding of
government, thus designing has to be done assuming the available sources is
enough.
METHODOLOGY
TOPIC

LITERATURE

DATA

CASE STUDY

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

DESIGN PROCESS

SITE SELECTION

SITE ANALYSIS

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN

PRELIMINARY DESIGN

FINAL DESIGN
SITE DETAILS

◦ SITE LOCATION- IT IS LOCATED NEAR JHOTWALA INDUSTRIAL

AREA AND MILITARY CONTAINMENT IN JAIPUR RAJASTHAN.
◦ SITE AREA- 14 ACRES.
◦ SITE APPROACHES-
◦ RAILWAY STATION- 5.7KM
◦ AIRPORT- 17KM
◦ BUS STAND- 6.4 KM
◦ POLICE STATION- 2.9KM
◦ HOSPITAL-3.3KM
◦ FIRE STATION- 4.2KM
◦ MARKET- 4.1KM
◦ LANDMARK
◦ MAIN SITE LANDMARK IS THE BHAWANI NIKETAN SCHOOL.
PROPOSED CASE STUDY

◦ OBSERVATION HOME FOR BOYS PRAYAS,DELHI

◦ ADHARSHILA OBSERVATION HOME FOR BOYS, SEWA KUTIR
COMPLEX, DELHI.
◦ TIHAR JAIL, DELHI.