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Friday, 23 December 2005 | Elif Sungur
Ferrous Park International Architectural Design Competition
Ferrous Park in association with STRETCH and SquareOne Collaborative announces an international architectural design competition for the design of a housing project, fronting a sculpture park, with seven individual dwellings in the Crossroads Arts District in Kansas City, Missouri USA. The project seeks to offer an approach for integrating new housing construction into urban core redevelopment by preserving and strengthening the early aspects of a neighborhood identity as physical, social and financial development merges into a burgeoning neighborhood. Construction of the dwellings, scheduled for spring 2007, will emphasize new construction technologies, off-site production of building components and environmentally-friendly products and means of production (i.e. sustainable and green construction). Participant's submittals must be received by January 31st, 2006.
This project involves both the design and construction of a housing project with seven individual dwellings in the Crossroads Arts District in Kansas City, Missouri. Architects selected from this competition will design four of the seven dwellings.
The design aspect of the project centers on attempting to define and broaden the role of new housing construction as a component of urban core redevelopment beyond merely adding living space. New housing construction can maximize its contribution to urban core redevelopment through the understanding of socioeconomic, geographic contexts and the maturity of existing development trends and by augmenting those existing trends or establishing a new redevelopment direction.
The construction aspect of the project centers on the use of new construction technologies, off-site production of building components and environmentally-friendly products and means of production (i.e. sustainable and green construction).
The Crossroads Arts District in Kansas City, Missouri began to evolve from a declining 1920's - 1950's light industrial and warehousing area into an organically growing and flourishing arts scene more than fifteen years ago. Pioneered by local artists living and working in the warehouse spaces, Interest in living, working and investing in the area is rapidly growing to include a much wider spectrum of people and small businesses. The western portion of the Arts district is considerably more developed than the eastern portion with small businesses, restaurants, galleries, night clubs and loft conversions. The eastern portion of the district has begun to take advantage of its underutilized properties in the last five years. The eastern portion of the Arts District is frequently referred to as the Keystone of the Crossroads Arts District as it connects the Arts District to the 18th & Vine Jazz District. The Arts District has not seen newly constructed housing and only three newly constructed commercial/industrial buildings in a minimum of twenty years. Redevelopment of the area is currently confined to adaptive reuse. New housing construction in this context will begin to mature the redevelopment process of the Crossroads Arts District.
Create an environment in which a neighborhood that encourages personal participation in the execution and promotion of the arts, at the street, neighborhood, city, state, national and international levels, can remain "art and artist-friendly" over time, and flourish as such in the context of ongoing urban redevelopment.
Objectives
- Establish a landmark and social focus for neighborhood identification, interaction and events that create a distinctive identity relating to the arts.
- Increase housing with a wide range of costs, rents, sizes and functionality.
- Increase "supporting" businesses and services.
- Minimize crime and vandalism
- Promote group and individual expression.
- Create value for real estate in the neighborhood.
- Create an arts and artist-friendly neighborhood identity that will sustain over time.
Activities
- Create an urban all season multi-purpose park for use by the general public, and the visual and performing arts.
- Develop a "block plan" for streets surrounding the park to promote mixed uses including commercial, light industrial, retail, services, entertainment and housing.
- Add housing on the east edge of Ferrous Park.
- Initiate a resident artist program.
- Establish perpetual funding for park maintenance and the promotion of events.
- Work with local authorities to control crime and vandalism.
Design Criteria
- Access to the park shall be from the public entrances only.
- Each dwelling shall have a two car garage at ground level accessed from Locust Street.
- Garages must be convertible to commercial occupancy with separate entrance from Locust Street.
- Minimum one story above garage with mezzanine.
- Maximum of two stories above garage.
- All roofs must be accessible from the interior of the house in a convenient and safe manner.
- All flat roofed areas must be "green" and accessible.
- Heat and air conditioning will be through a common geothermal system.
- No living floor space will be used for environmental systems equipment.
- At least one outdoor area on the roof or balconies shall provide shade space in summer, and allow for direct sun in winter for a minimum of two hours for two people.
- Outdoor areas shall accommodate individually controlled movement/access to outdoor areas of abutting units.
- Soft interface from public to private areas - between street and entry, street and facade and between common and private indoor areas.
- All entries shall be protected from the weather.
- The interface between Locust Street and the park shall be visually and sonically porous.
- Designs can range from chameleon-like respect of the surrounding architecture to a complete divorce from the surrounding architecture. However the architecture of the overall project must respect scale and massing of the immediate surroundings.
- Maximize maintenance-free, green and sustainable building materials and techniques.
Selection Process
Applicants are invited to submit resumes and portfolios of previous work for review.
Initial reviews will examine experience in prefab, modular, panelized, off-site construction of building components or systems built design and construction. Submittals must be emailed or postmarked by January 31, 2006.
Eight designers will be selected from the initial applicants and an honorarium of $1000.00 will be awarded for conceptual designs by the eight designers. Conceptual designs can consist of front and rear elevations, floor and roof plans, building section, perspective sketches and any details necessary to fully express the design. Drawings must be in electronic format. The drawings must be accompanied by a brief description of the design concept and how its execution fits into the context of and works to achieve, the stated goal and objectives. Rights to the designs of each dwelling will be retained by the designers.
Final selections will be based on the judging criteria below and jury input.
JURORS:
STRETCH: Sculptor, Ferrous Park owner, land developer, restaurateur
Tom Stiller: Principal Architect, SquareOne Collaborative, land developer
Vladimir Krstic: Professor, Department of Architecture, Kansas State University
John Gaunt, FAIA: Dean, School of Architecture and Urban Design, University of Kansas
Porter Arneill: Director/Public Art Administrator, Municipal Art Commission of Kansas City, Missouri
Greg Nook, AIA: Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for JE Dunn Construction and previously an architect practicing nationally and internationally for over 25 years.
Selection Criteria
- Maximizing off-site construction and maximizing on site assembly of components.
- Level of control of heat gain and heat loss.
- Physical manifestation of participants' stated design concepts as based on stated goal and objectives.
- Originality of design.
- Level of adherence to green and sustainable design concepts.
Participants selected from the competition will be responsible for four juried dwelling designs. The maximum number of individual firms or designers selected will be four and the minimum two. Each architect will be required to interact with the designer of the abutting unit(s) to establish final configurations/relationships/resolution of specified design criteria abutting units have in common through contact and/or adjacency. The perceived ability of the selected individual designers to work together through/around/over and within constraints to achieve a consensus amongst all designers of the final east and west exterior project elevations is an additional selection criterion. Design fees will be a negotiated percentage of the gross construction cost of each respective dwelling. The gross construction cost of each dwelling will be approximately $180,000. A final gross construction cost budget for each dwelling will be established and provided to each designer prior to design fee negotiation. Final construction cost for each dwelling will be largely dependant upon footprint area.
Resumes must be received by January 31st, 2006. Honorariums will be awarded to the eight finalists by March 1st, 2006. Conceptual designs must be received by June 31st, 2006. Construction is scheduled for early spring 2007.
Each designer will receive a site plan in electronic format which will also identify the footprint and location of the dwelling each designer is responsible for. The model building code adopted by Kansas City, Missouri is the IBC 2003 and it's family of codes. A code review package will be available upon request. Tom Stiller of SquareOne Collaborative will act as architect of record for permitting purposes if necessary and can also provide structural engineering if needed.
For more information, please visit http://www.stretchsculpture.com/ferrouspark.html
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