Substance abusers are isolated in our society. This project aims to rehabilitate them and also to build a platform to integrate them with society. The realization of the lack of present rehabilitation scenarios and the rate of unsuccessful rehabilitation stories paved the way for taking a different approach, to heal them with the power of mindfulness activity, art as performer and observer. The design approach was focused on their journey of healing, which was divided into three phases. Each phase offered more opportunities and freedom than the previous stage. They can explore their creativity and live their life productively, once they re-join the outside world. Art and sports will act as therapy and provide them with improved social and communication skills, self-discipline, and self-confidence. Performance & visual art can offer a common ground through which their family, as well as the society, can realize their potential. Qualities of art programs make them more accessible, absorbing, and rewarding.  “Art is the ‘ultimate hidden weapon’ because of its ability to ‘hide’ the therapeutic process.” The design outcome imparts -

1. accommodation for the patients  

2. therapeutic spaces for practicing literature, performance art & visual art

3. communal space for public performance These three categories of spaces advance a layered journey, each contributing to progressive rehabilitation.