Former ROCAF Headquarters

The surviving brick building in this compound began in 1944 as the No. 2 Hall of the Taiwan Government-General’s Industrial Research Institute (台灣總督府工業研究所), a spin-off from the Central Research Institute in 1939, but most of the facility was never finished before the war ended. After a brief post-war stint as a branch of the Taiwan Provincial Industrial Testing Institute, the compound was requisitioned in 1949 as the Ren’ai Camp (仁愛營區), home to the headquarters of the Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF), and remained an active military command for over six decades. The ROCAF relocated to Dazhi in 2012 and the base was soon marked for preservation in 2015. Over the next several years it became home to a variety of institutions: TAF Innovation Base (臺灣當代文化實驗場), Social Innovation Lab (社會創新實驗中心), and C-LAB. Parts of the site were promoted to national monument status in 2024.