2023 Open House Taipei | Sustainability and Dialogue

48-hour limited-time urban exploration from symbiotic environment to sustainable architecture

“What kind of city do people who live here wish Taipei become?”

Open House is an annual global architectural event that opens up urban secret spaces that are not usually known to the public for a limited time. It focuses on people’s concerns and aspirations for the city, and through actual participation and interaction, discovers new relationships in architecture, cities, landscapes, and humanities.

Event Date｜ 11/11 (Sat) - 11/12 (Sun) 48-hour limited-time connection of more than 100 architectural spaces in Taipei.

5 Key Points of Open House Taipei

1 Breathing City

Reproduce the water culture, experience the hydrophilic environment without going abroad, from the Chihtan Water Treatment Plant, Guanyinshan Reservoir, Caoshan Tunnel (Yangming Spring), to the Hsia River 94 Waterfront Renaissance and Guandu Nature Park Nature Center. Invite the public to explore seemingly hidden water resources, environments, and park green spaces, and imagine new possibilities for Taipei’s water city culture.

2 Livable Living Space

Open up the Juguang Social Housing in Wanhua, stroll around nearby theme spaces such as the Taipei Women’s Plaza, Xinfu Town Cultural Market, Bopiliao Tree House, and Ximen Red House that respond to openness, and feel the friendly living environment surrounded by diverse ethnic groups. Explore art and cultural experiential spaces around your life, such as Fude Gathering Place and Guangci Social Housing Public Art, Xinglong Small Living Room, Lohas Symbiosis Experimental Base, REstoRE Old and New Weaving, and Liao Life Hall. Discover unexpected aesthetics and fun in life.

3 Sustainable Architecture and City

Enter the rarely open Ministry of Transportation Highway Bureau, Hao Han Design Headquarters that showcases young designers and green environmental sustainability, Hongguo Building with rare green building certification for high age in the world, new Taipei City-owned Nanmen Market, and National Audiovisual Center with audiovisual works such as old movies. Then feel the reinterpretation of time and space from the new life of various cultural assets. Experience the practice of sustainable urban public space aesthetics in Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Rongjin Time Life Park, Beitou Center New Village.

4 Open Hidden Corners of the City

Visit the difficult-to-reserve Li Mountain along Yangmingshan Line and hidden secret landscape spaces. Private space lifelike, luxurious Langji Gong hidden in Qili’an’s secret alleyways, Fengjia Art Museum warehouse, National Taiwan Museum “Railway Department Park (the Cat walk)”, National Photography Culture Center, Taipei Performing Arts Center's Roof Garden, National Taiwan Science Education Museum's "Bee's Garden", Huashan Cultural Creative Park “Wangbei Tea Pavilion”, Dagan Planning Design Consultant , IMO Architecture and Design Office , CRE8 Kui Ai Te Design , Erben Planning x Yuma Design , Shi Chu Architecture , HOLO+FACE Huashan Concept Store are all open spaces that cannot be missed this year.

5 Open New Model of City

Urban Exploration Competition and Street Corner Consultation Room

The first “Urban Exploration Competition” was launched to invite people to form teams to take pictures to solve puzzles and get points. Interesting tools that follow the map will show you different perspectives of architectural space highlights. The team with the highest points from 11/11-12/9 also has a chance to win a “City Roaming Motorcycle CLBCU” sponsored by SYM Motorcycles.

In Insider’s “Street Corner OPEN TALK”, through observation, experience, and themed sharing of urban space, interact with space managers and people on each space’s digital message board to discuss. Let the opened architectural field become a starting point for sustainable topics, a meeting place for knowledge exchange, and a new starting point for urban renewal to generate new insights into the city you live in.

Open House Taipei