1. General information
2. Objectives of the intervention
Goals of the intervention
The main goals of the intervention are as follows:
1. To provide an educational experience to preschoolers in terms of sustainable agriculture and green lifestyles by designing an experimental vegetable garden (to teach children the importance of agriculture and their relationship with nature) as well as planting trees. (3)
2. To reaffirm the importance of sustainable use associated with green buildings, vertical gardens and natural ventilation through automatic gas analysis on computers. (3)
3. To employ energy-saving methods that are comprehensively applied but not limited to: green roofs as insulation, green facade as shading and solar water heating in order to raise educational awareness about sustainability. (5)
4. To respond to food security needs caused by increased droughts, floods and salinization. (5)
1. To provide an educational experience to preschoolers in terms of sustainable agriculture and green lifestyles by designing an experimental vegetable garden (to teach children the importance of agriculture and their relationship with nature) as well as planting trees. (3)
2. To reaffirm the importance of sustainable use associated with green buildings, vertical gardens and natural ventilation through automatic gas analysis on computers. (3)
3. To employ energy-saving methods that are comprehensively applied but not limited to: green roofs as insulation, green facade as shading and solar water heating in order to raise educational awareness about sustainability. (5)
4. To respond to food security needs caused by increased droughts, floods and salinization. (5)
Quantitative targets
- To serve 700 children aged from 2-5 years old. (4)
- To develop an area of 3800 sqm of which 200m2 is to be transformed into a garden. (2)
- To build a triple-ring green roof that encloses three secure playgrounds with 70% of its area covered by green trees. (4)
- To grow 5 types of vegetables in an experimental garden. (5)
- To develop an area of 3800 sqm of which 200m2 is to be transformed into a garden. (2)
- To build a triple-ring green roof that encloses three secure playgrounds with 70% of its area covered by green trees. (4)
- To grow 5 types of vegetables in an experimental garden. (5)
Monitoring indicators defined
- The number of children benefiting from the action
- The size of the area developed for the intervention
- The percentage of new green area
- The types of vegetables included (2,4,5)
- The size of the area developed for the intervention
- The percentage of new green area
- The types of vegetables included (2,4,5)
Sustainability challenge(s) addressed
Climate change mitigation: What were the goals of the NBS?
Climate change mitigation: What activities are implemented to realize the conservation goals and targets?
Implementation activities
The project was designed in 2011 by Vo Trong Nghia, Takashi Niwa, Masaaki Iwamoto. The implementation team, Pou Chen Corporation (owner of the factory) built a 200m2 vegetable garden on the roof of the kindergarten that included 5 types of vegetables to create educational opportunities for the children frequenting the institution. Throughout the initiative, local materials (e.g. brick, tile) and low-tech construction methods were adopted in order to reduce environmental impact as well as promote local industry. A more appropriate description is provided in one of the sources (2): "The building is designed as a continuous narrow strip with windows that can be opened on either side to maximize natural ventilation and lighting. In addition, architectural and mechanical energy-saving methods are comprehensively applied including but not limited to: green roofs as insulation, a green facade for shade and solar hot water." Factory wastewater is recycled to irrigate trees and flush toilets (2,5). The building is covered by vertical louvres made of pre-cast concrete, which is utilized as "vertical garden" for creepers such as bitter gourd and cucumber. Management of the garden is split between the teachers and the parents of the children, with harvested rainwater being used to irrigate the garden. Rainfall is collected by the wide gutter, which is covered by pre-cast concrete panels and utilized as an access pathway to the vegetable gardens on the roof (6).
Type of NBS project
3. NBS domains, ES and scale
4. Governance and financing
5. Innovation
Type of innovation
Please specify technological innovation
Innovation was identified in several types of action. One of them is seeing the intervention as a new product for Viet Nam, as the design and the idea of incorporating a vegetable garden in a kindergarten is new to the country (6). Another innovation could be infrastructural as the vegetable garden uses harvested wastewater from the factory and the kindergarten uses the same wastewater to flush toilets. (5)
Novelty level of the innovation
Please specify novelty level of the innovation
There is no indication that the initiative has been copied from previous interventions. Also, the sources mention the idea of a "farming kindergarten" is a novelty for Viet Nam. (6)
Replicability/Transferability
Please specify Replicability/Transferability
Sources do not mention that such a project will be replicable in other environments though they do mention that the idea of a "farming kindergarten" is a novelty for Viet Nam. (6)
