DESIGN INTENT

The project works on how the body experiences the space through its gender, and how this experience changes the spatial organisation and the affordances of the space. It looks at a community space through the lens of gender how the place itself carries a certain gendered behaviour and how its organisation shapes the way individuals experience and inhabit it. Within the layers of hierarchy of class and the power dynamics that exist in a police station, the design attempts to create a space that is inhabitable for both the public and the officers working within. It aims to make the police station a space that feels welcoming, flexible, and open trying to break the hierarchy of gender within the institution itself.

Equality here means that everyone is treated equally irrespective of their body their gender, caste, religion, or class. The design moves beyond just functional requirements and looks at how the arrangement of spaces, the transitions between them.

The hierarchy of space depends on its organisation on how spaces are arranged to gather everyone on the same level, softening the boundaries between bodies. The modules designed within the project can afford both resting and working conditions, allowing a fluid shift in emotion as one moves through different transitions. These transitions are created through the layering of connectors that link one space to another, gradually changing the mood and movement of the body. The idea of spatial justice becomes central not just equality in access, but equity in experience.