INDIGENOUS CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY OF COTU MINORITIES IN CENTRAL VIETNAM

The traditional community house named “Guol” is a unique architecture of Cotu minorities living upland area of central Vietnam. One community house in Hong Ha commune, Thua Thien Hue province was built in totally traditional method in 2007 and it is taken as a case study in this paper. This study focuses on their indigenous knowledge of design and construction. The field research was conducted during the construction to obtain the information related to structure, form, technique, process, and materials. Moreover, the local elders were interviewed to understand their design methodology.