Architecture, Authority and Female Gaze

The program is to design a Women’s Center for Congregation and Disport in a small suburban town of Saugor, in Central India, that becomes a place of both necessity and leisure for women – a symptomatic representation of their authority and aims to disrupt the notions of the ‘male authority’ as extended through the superlative ‘Male Gaze’. Architecture here emerges in response to the development of an arena for the female spectatorship via a visual and spatial structure- a binary cube, that enables the control over visibility extending into volumes that allow female gaze.