蒜山高原のある真庭市では、廃棄物として処理されていた製材端材や林地残材を木質バイオマス発電所の燃料として活用してきました。生ゴミをメタン発酵させることで農業用肥料に変えるバイオ液肥プロジェクト、瀬戸内海で養殖された牡蠣の殻を土壌改良剤として「里山」の田に施用する資源循環農業「真庭里海米」の生産など、ゴミを資源に変え、資源とお金の地域循環を作る「回る経済」(“Circular Economy”)を実装する試みです。

In the city of Maniwa, which is home to Hiruzen Plateau, excess lumber and forest residue, which had previously been disposed of as waste, are used as fuel in woody biomass power plants. A bio-liquid fertilizer project that converts food waste into agricultural fertilizer through the fermentation of methane... growing Maniwa Satoumi-mai rice through resource-recycling agriculture that utilizes oyster shells from the Seto Inland Sea as soil conditioner for the rice paddies in our countryside... these are among the initiatives that turn waste into resources, a circular economy that creates a cycle of money and resources flowing through the region. This project aims to put that circular economy into practice.

“GREENableHIRUZEN”は、「回る経済」(Circular Economy)の実現に向けた真庭市の試みをさらに発展させるものです。
“GREENable”とは、“Green”と“Sustainable”を組み合わせた造語で、洗練され誰にでも使いやすい自然共生に関する行為やものを紹介する「コミュニティ・ブランド」です。
ものの付加価値を無理やり上げてブランド化するのではなく、人と自然環境にとって持続可能な開発を探求し、地域振興に関する思想や取組みを表すゆえ、「コミュニティ・ブランド」という名称を用いています。

GREENable HIRUZEN represents a further development on Maniwa’s initiatives for realizing a truly circular economy.
GREENable is a portmanteau of green and sustainable. It is a community brand intended to introduce actions and items that relate to co-existence with nature that is sophisticated and can be easily used by anyone.
Not simply forcing up and branding added value, it seeks to achieve sustainable development of both people and the natural environment, and it represents both thought and real efforts related to regional invigoration. It is for these reasons that we call it a community brand.

真庭市の木材で作られたCLT(直交集成板)を使い、東京・晴海に建設された隈研吾氏設計の“CLT PARK HARUMI”が、2021年7月のオープンを目指して真庭市蒜山高原に移築され、蒜山の新たな観光・文化発信拠点施設として生まれ変わります。
解体しても再生することができる木造建築物の特性を生かしたこのプロジェクトは、日本古来より大切にされている永続性(“Sustainability”)を実現するものです。このCLTの里帰りをきっかけに“GREENable”の想いを具現化するものとして、蒜山高原の新たな観光・文化発信拠点施設を“GREENable HIRUZEN”としました。

CLT PARK HARUMI was constructed in the Harumi area of Tokyo, and was designed by the famed architect Kengo Kuma. It utilizes cross-laminated timber (CLT) made from the excellent lumber of Maniwa, and, with an eye on a grand opening in July 2021, it is being moved to Hiruzen Plateau. It is hoped that the facility will become a brand new tourism and culture center for the Hiruzen area.
This project, which utilizes the special quality of wooden buildings that they can be reconstructed even after being dismantled, is intended to achieve the kind of sustainability that Japanese have appreciated since ancient times. Taking the opportunity of this return of the CLT to its ancestral hometown of Maniwa to embody the GREENable thought, and to become a new facility for the transmission of tourism and culture on Hiruzen Plateau... that is what GREENable HIRUZEN means!