HIDEOUT

FOR
HIDDENS
SYNOPSIS BY SAHIL CHAWLA

INTRODUCTION
INDIA IS ONE OF THE MOST DEVELOPED AND BUSIEST COUNTRY IN THE
ENTIRE WORLD. NO ONE HAS TIME FOR ANYONE. A COUNTRY WHICH HAS
BILLIONS OF PEOPLE LIVING TOGETHER RUSH/COMPETITION IS EVIDENT.
IN THE RUSH ,PEOPLE HAVE FOREGETEN WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES ARE.
THE ONLY OBJECTIVE I TO EARN MONEY TO FULFILL THEIR NEEDS AND
WANTS .THEY HAVE FORGETTEN THEIR MAJOR RESPONSIBILITY THAT IS
TAKING CARE OF THEIR NEAR AND DEAR ONES .
THEY HAVE FORGETTEN THAT WITHOUT THEM ONES LIFE HAS NO VALUE.

DELHI- THE CAPITAL CITIES OF INDIA IS ONE THE BUSIEST CITIES OF THE COUTRY ,
MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AS WELL AS FROM OTHER
COUNTRIES HERE TO LOOK FOR BETTER JOBS OPPORTUNITIES.
BEING A NEW MEMBER TO THE CITY AND WORKING HERE ,I FEEL I HAD AND
ENRICHING EXPERINCE ,MEETING WITH PEOPLE AND INTERACTING WITH PEOPLE
WHO COME IN HOPE OF BETTER OPPORTUNITIES AND BETTER LIFE ESPECIALLY
PEOPLE WHOSE LIFE ARE ON THE STREETS
IN THE MIDST OF THE NIGHT WHEN THE ENTIRE CITY IS SLEEPING .WE FIND MANY
PEOPLE STRUGGLING TO FIND SHELTERS.
AS LIFE IS NOT A BED OF ROSES WHERE YOU GET WHAT EVER YOU WANT,PEOPLE OF
RAIN BASERA TOO WERE TRYING HARD TO EARN MONEY FOR BETTER LIVING BUT
HAD NO PLACE TO LIVE.

IN A RECENT DATA COLLECTED BY SUPREME COURT COMMISSIONERS OFFICE

,THEY FOUND 46,724 PEOPLE TO BE HOMELESSNESS IN DELHI.
WHAT IS HOMELESSNESS?
WHY DO WE CALL HOMELESSNESS AN ISSUE?
WHO ARE UNABLE TO SECURE THEIR LIFE;MAINTAIN REGULAR SAFE AND
EDEQUATE HOUSING LACK FIXED REGULAR INCOME AND ADEQUATE NIGHT
TIME RESIDENCe
SLUMS IN DELHI ARE ALSO COMES IN HOMELESSNESS BECAUSE THERE IS
LACK OF BASIC AMENITIES AND POOR LIVING QUALITY.

WHY THERE IS
HOMELESSNESS ?
FAMILIES LET THERE OLD PARENTS OUT OF THERE HOUSE JUST BECAUSE
THEY ARE ILL AND MANY OTHER REASONS.MANY OF THEM ARE ORPHANS
FROM BIRTH AND OTHERS ARE THOSE WHOM FAMILY MEMBERS ARE MET
WITH SOME NATURAL HAZARDS OR ANY OTHER PROBLEMS AND THEY ARE
ALONE NOW.
THERE ARE MANY REASON FOR HOMELESSNESS BUT THE MAJOR REASON
FOR HOMELESSNESS IS UNEMPLOYMENT,PEOPLE COME FROM DIFFERENT
FROM DIFFERENT ZONES IN DELHI FOR GETTING JOB OR ANY OPPORTUNITY
TO EARN MONEY.
MANY HOUSING ARE DEVELOPED BY THE GOVT. ORGANISATION SO THAT
PEOPLE LIVING IN SLUMS OR PEOPLE WHO ARE SHELTERLESS CAN BE
SHIFTED THERE BUT AFTER SOME TIME PEOPLE ALOTTED WITH THE SPACES
GET BACK TO THERE PREVIOUS SLUMS BECAUSE OF UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE
NEW SPACES.

WHO ARE THEY ?

They are omnipresent in the city; sleeping on pavements, building
settlements under flyovers and in vacant lots. The Indo-Global Social Service
Society, an NGO working for the homeless, defines them as 'CityMakers' - we
see them knock on our windows at traffic lights, but they also make up the
city's transient workforce (taking up jobs as labourers, rickshaw pullers,
sweepers, ragpickers) - without whom the city would "either crawl or come to
a standstill.
ACCORDING TO AN ARTICLE IN TIMES OF INDIA THEY ARE
TERMED AS HIDDEN
There are over 3 lakh homeless people living in the national capital and till
date the government has set up only 150 rain baseras or night shelters
where they can find refuge from the biting winter.

WHY THERE IS URGE?

DISABILITY EITHER MENTALLY PHYSICALLY OR BOTH
HOMELESS CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 18 ARE SUBJECT TO CHILD ABUSE
AND CHILD LABOUR(OFTEN INVOLVING PICKING UP RAGS AND SIFTING
THROUGH GARBAGE FOR RECYCLABLE MATERIAL.
ILLNESS AND DRUGADDICTION WHILE BEING STRIPPED OF THEIR RIGHT TO
EDUCATION AND RECREATION
UPTO 7% OF HOMELESS PEOPLE LIVING IN THE MAJOR CITY OF NEW DELHI ARE
WOMEN,DUE TO INAPPROPRIATE LIVING CONDITION MANY HEALTH PROBLEMS
AND MANY OTHER ISSUE WHERE WOMEN ARE THE VICTIMS ARE OCCURRING.
SPACES DEVELOP BY GOVT LIKE RAIN BASERA HAVING INAPPROPRIATE LIVING
CONDITION ,WOMEN SECURITY IS A BIG CONCERN.

RAIN BASERA IN DELHI

RAIN BASERA HAS BEEN
PROTECTING FAMILIES
THROUGH PROVIDING
SHELTER .INTERACTING WITH
THOSE PEOPLE REALLY
MADE ME KNOW MORE
ABOUT THE REAL WORLD
WHERE PEOPLE
STRUGGLING EVERY DAY TO
MEET THEIR BASIC NEEDS .
INCREASING NUMBER OF
SLUMS ALSO INCREASING
THE PROBLEMS OF POOR
LIVING CONDITION
,IMPROPOER LIVING
AMENITIES

STATISTICS
The Delhi government, in a response to the High Court, stated that there were adequate night shelters with
necessary facilities for the city's homeless, as per the Master Plan 2021.
Rounds around the city, however, show that while an attempt towards providing relief has been made, the
government's promises are far from its execution. Of the 150 shelters, we visited 22 permanent and
temporary shelters. The earlier tent shelters were replaced by bright porta-cabin accommodations, many in
just the last 12 months, after some tents caught fire. But most shelters suffer from lack of security,
unsanitary conditions, water shortage, etc.
While different government departments are to provide these, many social watch NGOs say they are not up
to the mark. "Maintenance is the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board's responsibility, but they are
failing in this," says Indu Prakash Singh of IGSSS.
The Yamuna Pushta lined by six temporary shelters is probably the worst location. Bordering the Yamuna,
these shelters are infested with mosquitoes in the summer, and temperatures fall to the lowest here during
winter. In 2004 after MCD's eviction drive of slums most of the slum dwellers here became homeless. And
after several cold deaths, temporary night shelters were set up. Dr Mukesh Kumar who works at the Tihar
Jail Hospital visits here weekly. "Although alcohol consumption is widespread, almost 60% of these people
suffer from some sort of substance abuse and need therapy," says Kumar, a psychiatrist.

AIM
DESIGNING AN HIDEOUT OF ITS TYPE TO OVERCOME THE EXISTING PROBLEMS OCCURING
IN RAIN BASERA AND OTHER THESE KIND OF SPACES
IT HELPS IN IMPROVING THE LIVING CONDITION OF PEOPLE WHICH ARE HOMELESS AND
ALSO MIGRANTS FROM OTHER CITIES WHICH DO NOT HAVE ADEQUATE SPACE FOR LIVING
UNDERSTANDING THE NEEDS AND PROBLEMS OF PEOPLE LIVING ON STREETS AND THESE
KIND OF SHELTERS AND THEN DESIGNING A SPACE
IT HELPS IN REDUCING VARIOUS CRIMES BECAUSE OF IMPROVED BY OPTING VARIOUS
SECURITY MEASURES
STUDY OF MATERIAL USED TO CONSTRUCT THESE KIND OF SPACES COST EFFECTIVE AND
QUALITY EFFECTIVE ALSO.
IMPROVING THE AVAILABILITY OF ELCTRICITY AT THESE KIND OF SITE SO THAT ADEQUATE
ELECTRICITY CAN BE SUPPLIED TO THEM

OBJECTIVE
PROPER PLANING CAN HELP IN IMPROVING THE LIVING CONDITION AND ALSO
THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE LIVING AT ONE SPACE CAN BE INCREASED BY
MODIFYING THE DESIGN
UNDERSTANDING THE MATERIAL WOULD HELP IN SUSTAINABILITY OF THE
SITE AND ALSO THE EXPENSES IN COSTRUCTING THE SITE.
GENERATING THE ELECTRICITY WHICH IS ADEQUATE FOR THE SITE AND IS
GENERATED ON THE SIGHT ITSELF.
LANDSCAPES SPACES ARE GENERATED TO DEVELOP CONNECTIVITY
BETWEEN PEOPLE

SITOUTS CAN BE DEVELOP

SECURITY FEATURES CAN BE OPTED WHILE
DESIGN THE SITE
BUFFER SPACES CAN BE CREATED SO THAT
PARTITION OF SPCES FOR MEN AND
WOMEN CAN BE SEGREGATE INTIALLY
WHILE DEISGNING
AN ADEQUATE SPACE CAN BE DESIGN FOR
WOMENS LIKE OLD LADY ,PREGNANT
WOMENS,WIDOWS
SPACES CAN BE DESIGN FOR CREATING A
ADEQUATE LIVING CONDITION FOR
HANDICAPS

ARCHITECTURAL CHALLENGE
AN HIDEOUT MEAN A SPACE WHERE THEY CAN FEEL PROTECTED AND
DEVELOPING A SPACE WHICH MAKING THEM FEEL PROTECTED BY
ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES IS A CHALLENGE.
GOVT. HAS DEVELOPED MANY HOUSING AND MANY NIGHT SHELTERS IN DELHI
BUT IT IS CHALLENGE TO MAINTAIN THEM.
THE CHALLENGE IS TO DESIGN A SPACE WHICH SUSTAIN TO ADEQUATE LIVING
CONDITION AND ALSO HELP THE PEOPLE LIVING THERE TO OVERCOME THE
DEPRESSION WHICH THEY HAVE IN THERE MIND AND HELP THEM TO DO
SOMETHING IN THERE LIFE WHILE BEING IN THAT SPACE OR OUTSIDE THAT
SPACE
PROVIDING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITES INSIDE THE DESIGN SO AN
ENVIRONMENT CAN BE MAINTAIN WHERE PEOPLE WORK ,LIVE AND SUSTAIN
THE SPACE TO BE SYMBOLIC AND ALSO NURTURING THE IMPORTANCE OF LIFE
WHICH MOST OF THE USERS OF THAT KIND OF SPACE HAS FORGET.

SCOPE
A PERMANENT SHELTER
NURTURING WITH NATURE
ADEQUATE BASIC AMENITIES
SPACES TO INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER
ENHANCING THE EDUCATION LEVEL BY
DEVELOPING SPACES WHICH CAN EDUCATE
PEOPLE
SANITATION ,BATHING SPACE
CLOAK ROOMS
RECREATIONAL AREAS
DEVELOPING EMPLOYMENT(WORKSHOPS)

SITE SELECTION
DELHI URBAN SHELTER IMPROVEMENT BOARD(DUSIB) UNDER THE
CONTROL OF GOVT. NCT DELHI AND IS PRIMARILY WORKING FUNCTIONING
UNDER THE PURVIEW OF THE DUSIB ACT .2010.
CHOOSING A SITE IN DELHI IS BIG REASON BECAUSE BEING A PART OF THIS
CITY WHILE WORKING HERE I FOUND BEING A CAPITAL IT SHOULD BE
ADEQUATE FOR BOTH HIGH PROFILE PEOPLE AND LOW PROFILE PEOPLE.
DUSIB HAS SITE WHERE RAIN BASERA ARE ALREADY SITUATED FOR AROUND
500 TO 600 PEOPLE BUT THE SPACE HAS CAPABILITY TO WORK AS A SHELTER
FOR MORE PEOPLE.
THE SITE IS LOCATED OPPOSITE TO KASHMERE GATE ISBT,DELHI AT
YAMUNA PUSHTA NEAR NIGAMBODH GHAT.

SITE

 BLUE DOTS SHOW BLOCKS

GREEN DOTS SHOW SANITARY
RED LINE SHOW THE ROAD BETWEEN THE SITE

Road

Blocks

Green area

EXISTED VIEW

EXISTED SECTION

SITE ANALYSIS
PROJECT- HIDEOUT FOR HIDDENS
AREA OF SITE 20793.44 SQ M(APPROX)
AREA OD SITE IN ACRES 5.13 ACRES
CLIMATE COMPOSITE CLIMATE,HUMIDITY IS HIGH IN SUMMERS BECAUSE OF
YAMUNA RIVER
CLIENT DELHI URBAN SHELTER IMPROVEMENT BOARD (DUSIB)

PROPOSED CASE STUDY

GOVIND PURI PERMANENT SHELTERS
FATEHPUR SHELTER.

LITERATURE STUDY
NGO FOR REHABILITATION FOR HOME LESS.

PROTOTYPE STUDY