A four-finalist shortlist for Transform 1012 N. Main Street’s adaptive reuse and racial equity project has been announced as part of a multiphase selection process that will eventually deliver the new Fred Rouse Center for Arts and Community Healing to Fort Worth, Texas.
The chance at redesigning what was once the Ku Klux Klan Klavern No. 101 Auditorium will fall on a proposal that best expresses and reflects the group’s reclamatory mission while “[prioritizing] community, equity, and collective healing in the design of the space” above all other considerations of site and material.
“The exceptional quality of the submissions prompted us to expand the initially envisioned shortlist from three to four teams and to extend our selection deadline for a few days,” Ben Crawford, the Chair of Transform 1012’s Design Architect Selection Committee, added. “We are thrilled to welcome these architects to Fort Worth to see how they could be a partner in reimagining the processes for enacting the interrelationship between the built environment, city planning, neighborhoods, and people.”
The selection committee was chaired by HOK Senior Principal Ben Crawford and included MASS Design Group’s Public Memory and Memorials Lab Director Jha D. Amazi and seven others. Their unanimous choices were made following the participation of more than 100 architects in the July 23rd Pre-Submission Webinar led by MASS Design. The submissions were vetted based on their Statement of Values and Commitments, which asked the teams to detail their positions on spatial justice, the redistribution of resources, and community healing, along with a note about the role each has had in their work thus far.
The four finalist design teams are:
“An equitable architect selection process is crucial to accomplishing the goals we set forth when we began meeting in 2019 and acquired the building in 2021. These finalists make me optimistic about the future Fred Rouse Center, and I am excited to see our coalition’s values and intentions realized through intentional and liberation-based design,” Daniel Banks, Transform 1012 Co-Convener and Board Chair and Co-Founder of DNAWORKS said finally.
A Design Week Residency will take place from October 15–18th in Fort Worth in order to bring each team into contact with various stakeholders and invite additional feedback from community members. The winner will be announced on November 15th. Further details pertaining to the architect design selection process can be found on Transform 1012’s website.
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