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INTRODUCTION

This multi-site Design Idea Competition seeks global architectural design concepts to preserve the Africatown community, interpret its unique history and promote its future economic revitalization. The Competition leverages the spectacular discovery of the sunken Clotilda slave ship in the Mobile River Delta to tell the Africatown story on 16 sites in 4 venues across 3 cities.

The result is a major cultural heritage destination system for the Mobile, Alabama, region called
THE AFRICATOWN CULTURAL MILE (TM)

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The total value of cash prizes to Competition winners will be $100,000.

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Multi-disciplinary teams of architects, urban planners, historians and the public may enter.

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The total value of cash prizes to Competition winners will be $100,000.

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Multi-disciplinary teams of architects, urban planners, historians and the public may enter.

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“AfricaTown enshrines and preserves the indomitable spirit of our ancestors. That it continues to exist validates the genius of its builders, the embodiment of their West African spirituality, intelligence, and skills. Thus, AfricaTown is an American ode to Africa, a symbol of resiliency in the face of slavery’s treachery. AfricaTown is an example of community-building in the 19th century, and it is a blueprint for revitalization in the 21st century.”              

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Critical Competition Issues

 

The most critical FUTURE issues FOR AFRICATOWN

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preservation

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cultural identity

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cultural heritage

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environmental protection

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public and private heritage agendas

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cultural tourism

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African architecture

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creative placemaking

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economic development

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for the underserved population of Africatown

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WHY africatown?

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]oday, visitors can get a glimpse of this history by visiting the downtown Museum of Mobile or by following the African-American Heritage Trail to the historic Africatown cemetery site. Some residents also stage an annual Africatown folk festival. Africatown is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. But there’s no major public interpretive history initiative in Africatown — no replica of the Clotilda, no well-funded museum — no well-designed destination to mark Africatown’s role in Alabama, national and international history.

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WHY a competition?

COMPETITIONS CAN :

Produce African designs for Africatown so important for cultural identity

Organize a variety of ideas and sites to give visitors fresh visual messages

Connect 4 sites/16 buildings within 10 mile area to create 1st class destination

Create a heritage blueprint for future collaboration and economic development

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So NOW, what’s the story?

In 2019, Clotilda the Slave Ship was ‘discovered’ in Mobile Bay. Now, there is international interest in this unique American place built by Africans at the end of the civil war…

This is a tale of American slavery, 2 southern cities, 1 town, and many many African descendants….

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what’s in it for the community ?     

jobs, community development, eco-tourism, preservation

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  • establish africatown as the Mobile area’s hub of cultural heritage tourism
  • inventory and promote the creative enterprises, assets, available space for cultural district
  • develop a prosperous, long-term cultural heritage tourism strategy for the region
  • strive to create an equitable regional cultural heritage system for all

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  • make career paths and economic opportunities explicit to retain africatown talent
  • create africatown cultural consortium to develop shared economic opportunities
  • train entrepreneurial/business skills for community development careers
  • make hospitality/ construction skills training available in afriatown/under-served area schools
  • develop & strengthen africatown’s history, food, film, music into local industries
  • increase business opportunities in international trade & commerce

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  • coordinate existing efforts that integrate learning in sciences, arts, and humanities
  • expand arts and design education in the public schools
  • teach interactive technology skills to show & tell africatown, benin/africa, diaspora history

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  • develop business services tailored to freelancers, microenterprises, and nonprofits
  • establish formal connections to cities outside of the u.s. to expand markets and learning
  • strengthen the relationship with the chamber and the convention & visitors bureau
  • build equitable financial relationships between africatown & the business/corporate community

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THE SITES

How the Africatown Cultural Mile is organized

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AN HISTORIC DISTRICT

A. Welcome Center

B. Training School

C. Small House Infills

D. Gateway

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ABANDONED PUBLIC HOUSING

A. Africatown Museum

B. Clotilda Boathouse  

C. Residential Housing

D. Gateway 2

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EXISTING RIVERS & ESTUARIES

A. Africatown Yacht Club

B. Water Transit System

C. 15 Water-Edge Pavilions

D. Gateway 3

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IN A PUBLIC PARK

A. Benin House Museum

B. Spa Hotel/Convention Center

C. Techno/Environmental Center

D. Gateway 4

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DESIGN THE SITES

THERE ARE 4 COMPETITION SITES

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Site 1

Site 2

Site 3

Site 4

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SELECT ONE SITE

SELECT TWO  SITES

SELECT THREE SITES

                  SELECT  FOUR SITES

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HISTORIC AFRICATOWN

JOSEPHINE ALLEN SITE

AFRICATOWN CONNECTIONS BLUEWAY

AFRICATOWN PARK USA

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DESIGN 4 BUILDINGS

DESIGN 8 BUILDINGS

DESIGN 12 BUILDINGS

DESIGN 16 BUILDINGS

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SITE DESIGN: DESIGNERS MUST

1

SELECT ANYWHERE FROM ONE TO FOUR OF SITES 1, 2,3,4 FOR DESIGN SUBMISSION:  

Each of the four SITES 1,2,3,4  has four BUILDINGS (a b c d)  that must be designed for that specific location.

2

IDENTIFY AFRICAN DESIGN TRADITIONS IN ARCHITECTURE AND COMMUNITY BUILDING

to promote Africatown (circa 1865) as a new cultural heritage destination brought on by the 2019 discovery of the Clotilda Slave ship.

3 

EMPLOY AFRICAN DESIGN PRINCIPLES TO GENERATE NEW ARCHITECTURAL PARADIGMS,

buildings and landscapes that respect preservation, re-ignite tradition and stimulate new ways to foster Africatown’s history and culture.

4

PROPOSE NEW AFRO-CENTRIC DESIGN OPTIONS that respect and interpret  the role of culture, history and  identity in the development of (any or all) of the four AFRICATOWN COMPETITION SITES 1,2,3,4 along The Africatown Cultural Mile. 

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DESIGN THE BUILDINGS

THE AFRICATOWN INTERNATIONAL DESIGN IDEA COMPETITION  is a design idea challenge that encourages participants to experiment with the sources, values and principles of African design and architecture within Africatown, Alabama, a unique African-American community established by once-enslaved West Africans who, once emancipated, bought land, built houses, churches and schools, and raised families immediately after the American Civil War. Numerous building requirements and cases studies are shared through this website to expand participant imagination.

The jury may choose to reward projects that show a high degree of creativity, even if they breach any of the rules, as long as it’s justified in the required written essay.

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Site 1

HISTORIC AFRICATOWN

DESIGN:(1) URBAN DESIGN CONCEPT &(4) BUILDING VENUES

WITHIN 10 SQUARE BLOCKS OF THE AFRICATOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT

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SITE 1 a: DESIGN WELCOME CENTER @ HISTORIC CEMETERY

Serves as the beginning of The Africatown Cultural Mile, to honor this sacred site commemorating the life, death, burial and rituals of the original African Clotilda survivors, and to engage public appreciation of Africatown’s history, religion, social life, community development and architectural building techniques. To also serve as meeting ground, praying ground, place for ancestral libations and rituals.

SITE 1 b: DESIGN MOBILE COUNTY TRAINING SCHOOL/EXPANSION

African-Centric Smart -School Campus, an old Rosenwald School Site, with curriculum in History, Arts, Sciences with technology labs, art studios, performance theaters and dormitories for 10 Visiting African Scholars and boarding for 30 college students of education.  

SITE 1 c:   DESIGN 30 UNITS OF INFILL HOUSING

To “fill in the missing teeth,” vacant lots, with housing that respects African American building traditions and African architectural influences on southern vernacular architecture. Focus on façade elevations, lot sizes, block orientation, house types and groupings, landscaping and shared communal spaces.

SITE 1 d:   DESIGN AFRICATOWN WELCOME/GATEWAY 1

As a public plaza and gateway for Historic Africatown that serves as public art hub, monument and memorial for ancestors, descendants and prominent community leaders.

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SITE 2 a: DESIGN THE MUSEUM FOR AFRICATOWN ANCESTORS

As an iconic African Architectural Institution using cutting-edge technology to interpret, exhibit, display Descendant artifacts and oral histories, and to engage in inter-cultural dialogue about the International Slave Trade, Alabama Plantations, Emancipation, and the building of Africatown, all through the Clotilda story. Also features unsung African American heroes in the arts, sciences and sports, an intimate performing arts theater, and community meeting spaces.

SITE 2 b: DESIGN A BOATHOUSE FOR THE CLOTILDA REPLICA

To House a Full-size Replica of The Clotilda in the Floodplain in the Josephine Allen and the edge of Three Mile Creek  to allow under-water views of the Clotilda’s slave hold to display the horrors of the slave trade. It may one day hold wreckage of the actual Clotilda, now in the State of Alabama’s public domain. Africatown residents are discussing what should be done with the wreckage.

SITE 2 c:   DESIGN A MARITIME RESIDENTIAL HOUSING MARVEL

As part of a new 300 unit mixed-use/mixed-income housing complex with affordable housing for seniors. In homage to the ancestors and their arrival in Mobile Bay in 1860, the housing must face the water, which also lends a view to Downtown Mobile. The historic but derelict public housing site will become a major in-town live/work/play venue for education and performances, and with recreational access to Three Mile Creek.

SITE 2 d:   DESIGN CLOTILDA BOATHOUSE/GATEWAY 2

As a public plaza and gateway to honor the Clotilda descendants and provide access to a water transit system that takes tourists to other locations in The Africatown Cultural Mile.

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Site 2

JOSEPHINE ALLEN PUBILC HOUSING SITE

DESIGN: (1) Urban Design Concept & (4) Building Venues on 50 acre abandoned housing site

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Site 2

JOSEPHINE ALLEN PUBILC HOUSING SITE

DESIGN: (1) Urban Design Concept & (4) Building Venues on 60 acre abandoned housing site

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SITE 2 a: DESIGN THE MUSEUM FOR AFRICATOWN ANCESTORS

As an iconic African Architectural Institution using cutting-edge technology to interpret, exhibit, display Descendant artifacts and oral histories, and to engage in inter-cultural dialogue about the International Slave Trade, Alabama Plantations, Emancipation, and the building of Africatown, all through the Clotilda story. Also features unsung African American heroes ian the arts, sciences and sports, an intimate performing arts theater, and community meeting spaces.

SITE 2 b: DESIGN A BOATHOUSE FOR THE CLOTILDA REPLICA

To House a Full-size Replica of The Clotilda in the Floodplain in the Josephine Allen and the edge of Three Mile Creek  to allow under-water views of its cargo bay to display the horrors of the slave trade. It may one day hold wreckage of the actual Clotilda, now in the State of Alabama’s public domain. Africatown residents are discussing what should be done with the wreckage.

SITE 2 c:   DESIGN A MARITIME RESIDENTIAL HOUSING

As part of a new 300 unit mixed-use/mixed-income housing complex with affordable housing for seniors. In homage to the ancestors and their arrival in Mobile Bay in 1860, the housing must face the water, which also lends a view to Downtown Mobile. The historic but derelict public housing site will become a major in-town live/work/play venue for education and performances, and with recreational access to Three Mile Creek.

SITE 2 d:   DESIGN CLOTILDA BOATHOUSE/GATEWAY 2

As a public plaza and gateway to honor the Clotilda descendants and provide access to a water transit system that takes tourists to other locations in The Africatown Cultural Mile.

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Site 3

AFRICATOWN CONNECTIONS BLUEWAY

Design: (1) Urban Design Concept & (4) Building Venues along 10 Miles of Waterways

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SITE 3 a: DESIGN THE AFRICATOWN YACHT CLUB

Iconic African Architectural space where youth from Mobile County Training School and students from area public schools are taught swimming, sailing and boat-building, in partnership with Mobile’s 100 Black Men, Inc.

SITE 3 b: DESIGN A SERIES OF 15 PAVILIONS

As rest stops for tourists on boat taxis and recreational kayakers and boaters along the Africatown Connections Blueway, with heritage signage that interprets Africatown’s history and plantation routes further up the Mobile River system.

SITE 3 c: DESIGN A FLEET OF WELL-BRANDED BOATS

To promote the water transit system as part of The Africatown Cultural Mile, its connections to the waterways & eco-tourism using newly designed kayaks, row boats, water taxis, and steamboats that transport people (2-50 people) up and down the Mobile Bay, creeks and rivers.

SITE 4 d:   DESIGN AFRICATOWN CONNECTIONS BLUEWAY/GATEWAY 3

As a public plaza that introduces the Clotilda Discovery Site to the Public, The Africatown Yacht Club as iconic arcalong The AFRICATOWN CULTURAL MILE/ Dedicate this Africatown Connections Blueways/Gateway to the African Gods of Water.

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SITE 4 a: DESIGN THE BENIN HOUSE MUSEUM

As a highly immersive interpretive museum focused on the history of Africa, the Empire of Dahomey and the culture of Benin. Museum should include African role and perspective on the International Slave Trade, Story of Ouidah, the Barracoons and the Clotilda;. Exhibitions should use virtual reality techniques to explore African civilizations, Art of Benin, African oral Histories, maps, and a genealogical wing that traces African ancestry.

SITE 4 b: DESIGN WELLNESS SPA HOTEL/CONVENTION CENTER

As an African international Trade Center Complex that features a world-class luxury Destination Hotel focused on holistic health and healing. Also includes  an African-themed marketplace with organic food-sourced restaurants, and a tourism agency promoting travel to Africa.

SITE 4 c: DESIGN TECHNO/ENVIRONMENTAL WORKFORCE CENTER

As a high-tech tour de force where world-class innovators test the latest global technological advancements and scientists work to solve environmental challenges from industry in Africatown and other under-served areas. Also serves as offices for international business executives, and as work/live spaces for tech / creative makers and in entrepreneurial business training.

SITE 4 d: DESIGN AFRICATOWN PARK/GATEWAY 4

as Public Plaza  and DOOR OF RETURN TO AFRICA in Africatown Park USA.

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Site 4

AFRICATOWN U.S.A. STATE PARK

Design (1) Urban Design Concept & (4) Building Venues on 10 acres of a 160-acre undeveloped public park

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Site 4

AFRICATOWN USA STATE PARK

Design (1) Urban Design Concept & (4) Building Venues on 10 acres of a 160-acre undeveloped public park

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SITE 4 a: DESIGN THE BENIN HOUSE MUSEUM

As a highly immersive interpretive museum focused on the history of Africa, the Empire of Dahomey and the culture of Benin. Museum should include African role and perspective on the International Slave Trade, Story of Ouidah, the Barracoons and the Clotilda;. Exhibitions should use virtual reality techniques to explore African civilizations, Art of Benin, African oral Histories, maps, and a genealogical wing that traces African ancestry.

SITE 4 b: DESIGN WELLNESS SPA HOTEL/CONVENTION CENTER

As an African international Trade Center Complex that features a world-class luxury Destination Hotel focused on holistic health and healing. Also includes  an African-themed marketplace with organic food-sourced restaurants, and a tourism agency promoting travel to Africa.

SITE 4 c: DESIGN TECHNO/ENVIRONMENTAL WORKFORCE CENTER

As a high-tech tour de force where world-class innovators test the latest global technological advancements and scientists work to solve environmental challenges from industry in Africatown and other under-served areas. Also serves as offices for international business executives, and as work/live spaces for tech / creative makers and in entrepreneurial business training.

SITE 4 d: DESIGN AFRICATOWN PARK/GATEWAY 4

As Public Plaza  and DOOR OF RETURN TO AFRICA in Africatown Park USA.

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“Africatown was built by the hands of Africans who came to the Americas with thousands of years of science embedded in their DNA, not only the science of tilling the soil for nutrients for our bodies, but scientific knowledge of shaping the soil into architectural monuments”.                  

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