The Fred Rouse Center for Arts and Community Healing presents a unique challenge to re-imagine a site with a history of racialized violence and to transform the structure into a place of reconciliation and healing. This adaptive reuse project provides an opportunity to demonstrate a unique approach to a historic structure analogous to the healing mission of the project. Rather than preserve or restore the masonry structure, the project will treat it as a found object to be reconfigured in order to better represent its new identity and use. To this end, new development will express what is new as new, and allow the character of the old to remain.
Design Architects: B-arn-S Architects and ch_Studio
Architect of Record: GFF Architects
Landscape Architects: JIMA Studio
Theatre Consultants: Charcoal Blue
Structural Engineers: AKTII with Martinez Moore
Sustainability Engineers: Atelier Ten