We observe two cities within the city; a north city and a south city. The south city is defined by a triangular logic between three major vertices; the administrative district based around the Presidential Office, the financial district on the opposing end symbolized by the Taipei 101, and an educational district built upon the National Taiwan University campus. The north city is defined by more recent urban regeneration operations that speak of a modern Taipei of hi-tech cultural districts and is loosely defined by the logic of the Keelung River. The remainder city between the north and south cities has a more diffuse identity and tenuous logic. The site is located at the axis of this north-south divide.

Imagine a green infrastructure that allows a new way to navigate the city. An enabling infrastructure that provides an alternative to car-based urban reality, emancipating the elderly, expanding the imagination of the young and with the capacity to empower other dependent and marginalized social groups.

The Taipei Turntable proposes an ever-recurrent circular narrative between the administrative, financial and educational districts of the southern city and the modern cultural and hi-tech districts of the northern city. This site’s location, orientation and size give it instrumental strategic value abolishing the north-south divide.