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A Behavioural Analysis of the Intersectionality of Gender in Housing Among Indian Middle-Class Families
The effect of architectural planning, facade, materials, and space, in general, on every user often goes unnoticed. The influence of built spaces on the well-being of humans is noticeably another evolution of architecture. Gender plays a significant role in Indian households and varies across different socio-cultural and economic backgrounds. Men are often linked with the public sphere, whereas women are usually connected with the domestic sphere. While designing, an architect needs to understand the seemingly small but crucial aspects of architecture that impacts human behaviour in households. Designers should entrust themselves in noticing gender disparity (if any) in the built environment for better and inclusive design decisions. The paper explores the complex ground of each human's unrealized right to comfortable housing through more exemplary space planning and the resulting need for barrier-free design. It strives to introduce the framework of an intersectional analysis as a gender-comprehensive way to study existing cases of different typologies of home across coastal Karnataka, India, as the primary study along with certain international cases to understand the global scenario. Due considerations would be given to various socio-cultural and economic backgrounds so that congenial housing becomes a reality for all humans, including women, men and the LGBTQIA + communities.
A Behavioural Analysis of the Intersectionality of Gender in Housing Among Indian Middle-Class Families
The effect of architectural planning, facade, materials, and space, in general, on every user often goes unnoticed. The influence of built spaces on the well-being of humans is noticeably another evolution of architecture. Gender plays a significant role in Indian households and varies across different socio-cultural and economic backgrounds. Men are often linked with the public sphere, whereas women are usually connected with the domestic sphere. While designing, an architect needs to understand the seemingly small but crucial aspects of architecture that impacts human behaviour in households. Designers should entrust themselves in noticing gender disparity (if any) in the built environment for better and inclusive design decisions. The paper explores the complex ground of each human's unrealized right to comfortable housing through more exemplary space planning and the resulting need for barrier-free design. It strives to introduce the framework of an intersectional analysis as a gender-comprehensive way to study existing cases of different typologies of home across coastal Karnataka, India, as the primary study along with certain international cases to understand the global scenario. Due considerations would be given to various socio-cultural and economic backgrounds so that congenial housing becomes a reality for all humans, including women, men and the LGBTQIA + communities.
A Behavioural Analysis of the Intersectionality of Gender in Housing Among Indian Middle-Class Families
Sustainable Development Goals Series
Mostafa, Magda (editor) / Baumeister, Ruth (editor) / Thomsen, Mette Ramsgaard (editor) / Tamke, Martin (editor) / Yelamali, Sanmathi N. (author) / Sunil Ulhe, Rutuja (author)
World Congress of Architects ; 2023 ; Copenhagen, Denmark
2023-09-03
24 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English