Cohousing for Women Victims of Violence. An Interreg Project for Gender Equality

The paper describes an Interreg project on cohousing and coworking for women victims of gender-based violence, outlining its context, motivations, objectives, phases, ongoing developments, and reporting on the first results achieved. The project, called Femmes Libres, sees the transnational collaboration of public and private partners addressing the issue from different points of view. In the paper, while showing the interdisciplinary approach of the partnership, the focus is mainly on the design aspects of the proposed housing model. It highlights architectural research in achieving SDG 5 and other synergistically related SDGs.