Open House Brno

Open House Brno (OHB)[1] is a free weekend festival held annually in Brno that allows participants to visit dozens of buildings that are not typically open to the public. Every visit is free of charge. It is part of a worldwide network of Open House events,[2] that started with Open House London in 1992,in 2003 followed Open House New York and other cities as for example later in 2011 Open House Chicago.

Edition 2018

For the first full scale event in 2018, 23 locations participated, and event attracted around 8,000 people.

Edition 2019

Second year of the event in 2019 was attended in person by Victoria Thornton, founder of Open House Worldwide.[3] Included were Educational workshops "Human Ant-hill,"[4] a special program for children – architectural-learning fun – and there are also guided tours for English and German speaking visitors. The festival lead architecture fans, not only through the city centre, where doors to the former Moravian Parliament and the renovated palaces and villas will be thrown open, but also to the more remote parts of the city. There are civil engineering structures, residential structures and industrial buildings with an panoramatic view or a unique design.[5]  

Edition 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has limited personal attendance possibilities, thus the online version of the festival was performed on 23rd–24th April 2020. The Autumn edition was presented as the spring festival replacement. Once again was realized solely online 10th–11th October 2020[6]

Filming and Workshops were prepared by a group of volunteers and students from Masaryk and Mendel Universities. Results were published on YouTube channel[7] and Facebook. The industrial focus was emphasized e.g. presented was Edison’s power station, which was used for the first European electrified Theatre. One of the most popular recordings was Dada district residential lofts[8]

Virtual visits were enabled to almost 50 locations across the city. There were presented pre-recorded guided tours, panoramas, 3D walks and 360 walks. Streaming gained quite positive reviews, about 14ts views on Facebook and about 6ts views on freshly established Youtube channel. Traditional entry was enabled only to restricted groups of volunteers.

Open House Brno participated on Open House Worldwide online festival,[9] 48 hours over the weekend of 14–15 November.[10] OHB presented section Spiritual places, for which were prepared Brno Synagogue and Rainbow jewel is Catholic Church of Maria Restituta Kafka, consecrated just in September 2020. The event had widespread media attention.[11][12]

Structure

Open House Brno is organized by nonprofit organization Spolek Culture&Management. In the years 2017 – 2020 was main partner TIC Brno.

  • Visitors of Open House Brno at BVV Trade Fairs Brno view tower, 2018
    Visitors of Open House Brno at BVV Trade Fairs Brno view tower, 2018
  • Visitors of Open House Brno at BVV Trade Fairs Brno view tower, 2018
    Visitors of Open House Brno at BVV Trade Fairs Brno view tower, 2018
  • Visitors of Open House Brno at Arnoldova vila Memorial, 2019
    Visitors of Open House Brno at Arnoldova vila Memorial, 2019
  • Visitors of Open House Brno at Masaryk Univezity Campus, 2020
    Visitors of Open House Brno at Masaryk Univezity Campus, 2020

References
  1. "Home". www.openhousebrno.cz.
  2. "Brno". Open House Worldwide.
  3. Stephens, Jack (21 March 2019). "Open House Brno 2019 Will Open 68 Normally Private Spaces To The Public".
  4. "OHB: Human Anthill – fun learning about architecture for children up to 11 years old". Go To Brno. 8 April 2019.
  5. "43 Cities Hosting the 2019 Open House Festival". ArchDaily. 4 February 2019.
  6. Bingel, Kim (8 October 2020). "Open House Brno: An Invitation Behind Closed Doors".
  7. "Open House Brno – YouTube". www.youtube.com.
  8. "Open House Brno | DADA DISTRIKT s.r.o." YouTube. 9 October 2020. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  9. "Open House Worldwide". Open House Worldwide. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  10. "Open House Brno intro for Open House Worldwide Festival 2020". YouTube. 13 November 2020. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  11. "Das Architekturfestival Open House". ORF. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  12. "Archdaily". Archdaily. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
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