Architecture, Interior, and Landscape Design: Takashi Niwa Architects
Program Direction: Yosuke Masuko
Agricultural Advisory: Shugo Hama
Photographs: Hiroyuki Oki

For Hikari Complex
Investor: Becamex Tokyu
Structural Design: SMT Viet Nam Construction JSC
MEP Design: G.E.C Corporation
Lighting Design: Hisaki Kato Design
Contractor: Hoa Binh Construction

For Pizza 4P's Binh Duong
Investor: 4ps Corporation
MEP Engineering: Theta Engineering
Contractor: Kha Viet

Imagine a place where people can enjoy delicious food, learn about sustainability, and experience nature in harmony. A place where every bite, every sip, and every step is part of a larger cycle that respects the environment and the community. This is Hikari-4P’s Eco-edutainment Hub, a project that aims to create a sustainable commercial complex that demonstrates the environmental and social benefits of a circular economy and a green lifestyle. The project is located in the center of Binh Duong New City, a large-scale urban development project in an industrial area of Vietnam. The project consists of two main components: the Hikari Complex and Pizza 4P’s Binh Duong restaurant.

<Place for approaching to Eco-food cycle with working their tenants: Hikari Complex>
The Hikari Complex, developed by Becamex Tokyu is a building and landscape that houses 15 F&B brands that share the eco-friendly vision. The complex incorporates various eco-friendly elements, such as solar panels, waste management, and green spaces. It also implements an eco-food cycle with composting food waste, aquaponics, and edible landscape with fruit trees. The complex also aims to promote local culture and community engagement through events and activities. These eco-cycle ideas are developed in cooperation with Pizza 4P’s which has experience in trying towards sustainable restaurants.

<Restaurant visualizing Eco-material cycle on its development and operations>
At the same time, Pizza 4P’s creates the first zero-waste restaurant in Vietnam in this complex. It cooperates to reduce the environmental impact of food production and consumption with Hikari complex. The restaurant uses recycled materials for its design and construction, such as recycled plastic panels, earth bricks, wine bottles, reused steel, wood, and concrete. Besides, the restaurant shows up a separate collection room for garbage to guests. The restaurant’s eco-cycles are a way of edutainment for guests, who can learn about sustainable practices while enjoying the garden scenery.

<Eco-edutainment Hub for new city's lifestyle toward future age>
Eco-food cycles and eco-material cycles were commonly seen in Vietnamese country villages with efficient and low-energy living styles. The Hub’s main challenge is to create and visualize multiple levels of sustainable cycles, from the facility level to each tenant. The project also aims to share its experience and vision of sustainability with the customers and the community through edutainment, entertainment space with an educational approach. By doing so, the project hopes to encourage more people to adopt a sustainable lifestyle and contribute to the development of a new city.