A nongendered, homelike transitional living facility for individuals recovering from substance addiction

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2021
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Battuvshin, Nemuulen
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This practicum proposes that transitional living is an effective housing solution for people dealing with substance abuse to achieve long-term sobriety. A review of current literature on the topic determined that providing a sense of home allows the typology to differ from other recovery homes. It dismisses treatment-involved medical settings and instead promotes recovery by encouraging an everyday living situation and assigning responsibilities to the clients’ lives. A non-destructive, goal-oriented environment with onsite vocational programs is proposed through a larger, unified facility to aid in the site selection process, reduce land capacity, accommodate a larger number of residents, and provide immediate access to the required onsite amenities. The merging concept develops issues with maintaining a balance between the sense of home and institution. Creating a facility centred around a homelike environment provides clients with a safe and stable place to live and demonstrates growth in the personal and social self. Conveying a sense of home helps clients build and maintain positive relationships, community, and increases productivity levels. Secondly, gender is a critical determinant in the accessibility of recovery services offered by transitional homes due to the primarily gender-specific regulations. To make the facility accessible to a broader range of clients, combining genders allows for inclusivity, eliminates isolation, promotes social support, and normalizes the overall experience through adaptability in social settings. Following that, privacy and oversight became a challenge and required strategical planning for mandating a safe environment. Ultimately, the study develops design solutions that capture an appropriate median between residential and commercial contexts. A user-sensitive environment that responds to individual and social needs pertaining to inclusivity, boundaries, and psychological incentives, is achieved through interior design strategies.
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Recovery, Gender, Inclusive, Sense of home, Addiction, Transitional living, Community, Healing
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