HINESAD + EKLA Complete Transform 1012 Design Residency

Designing for Justice, Healing, and Community Memory

HINESAD, in collaboration with Elizabeth Kennedy Landscape Architect (EKLA), has completed the design residency phase for the Transform 1012 N. Main Street initiative in Fort Worth, Texas—an ambitious project to repurpose a former Ku Klux Klan auditorium into the Fred Rouse Center for Arts and Community Healing.

As one of four finalist teams, HINESAD and EKLA participated in a deeply immersive and emotionally resonant experience. The residency included group and individual engagement with community stakeholders, visits to sites of trauma and memory, and an on-site exploration of the existing structure—once a place of racial terror and later a pecan shelling facility.

Teams were hosted at the University of Texas at Arlington, where they were given studio space to develop conceptual design responses rooted in the residency’s insights. The process culminated in public presentations, interactive dialogue, and community-led conversations about the site’s painful legacy and its potential as a space of repair and collective future-building.

For HINESAD, the residency reaffirmed the power of architecture as a tool for cultural reckoning and transformation—one that acknowledges history while making room for joy, equity, and belonging.

Learn more about Transform 1012