Status: Built in 12.2020
Program: Restaurant
Location: 10 Vo Nguyen Giap street, Hai Phong city, Vietnam
Site area: 390m2
GFA: 840m2
Client: 4P's Corporation
Promoter: AEON MALL Hai Phong Le Chan
Hai Phong is a logistics and industrial hub with the largest terminal port in Northern Vietnam. It is a port city at the mouth of the Red River, about 100km away from Hanoi. The project, named “Ark Pavilion for Pizza 4P’s” is designed as a standalone building at the corner of a large newly built shopping mall.
This project is conceived as a symbolic monument to capture both the unique background and values of the city and restaurant - Hai Phong as a port and industrial city, as well as Pizza 4P’s value of sustainable dining. The building is perceived as an ark docked in a port, which is represented by the large shopping mall. It is an ark pavilion where the history and memories of the city are embraced and displayed to the diners and visitors.
The pavilion building opens to the entrance court where abundant flowers and trees for children to play. The curved slope in the landscape invites people to access the large roof where the pavilion welcomes the people to the journey of pizza 4P's dining.
When guests enter the pavilion building, the large void with top lights gives a special experience. A couple of pizza ovens in the center of the void gives a joyful scene of pizza cooking from everywhere in the restaurant. The dining space will be filled with natural light through the skylights, bringing guests a memorable time for dining in daytime.
Interior materials, lighting equipment, and patterns in the restaurant were inspired by the local context of the industrial port city, is not only to keep the value of the city for the local residents to re-find but also to let visitors experience the city’s culture and history.
[Design]
Architectural Design: Takashi Niwa Architects
Design team: Takashi Niwa, Kyohei Takahashi, Nguyen Van Khuong, Akash Ganguly, Lakshay Jasoria, Rhiddhit Paul, Jules Seguineau, Tran Quang Duc
MEP engineer: SMT Viet Nam Construction Joint Stock Company
[Contractor]
Main contractor: Obayashi Vietnam Corporation
Interior contractor: CYN Furniture joint stock company
Playground designer: Think Playgrounds
Shopping mall design and Tenant coordination: SEMBA VIETNAM CO., LTD
[Photographs]
Photographs: Hiroyuki Oki