Impacts of Culture on Traditional Housing Architecture of Ethnic Minority in the Vietnamese Northern Mountains.

Under the impact of urbanization as well as the influence of cultural exchanges between ethnic groups and the need to develop housing in the modernity direction of the northern mountainous people, the construction of buildings with traditional housing architecture characteristics is gradually decreased. It is highly possible that the traditional heritage of ethnic communities will gradually be forgotten if the mutual influence relationship between traditional culture and architectural housing is not being paid sufficient attention. In order to provide insight into traditional housing architecture and guide the preservation and development of residential architecture, the research aims to identify the influences of traditional culture on residential architectural space. The article employs a variety of techniques, including field surveys, analysis and evaluation of real-world scenarios, overviews of related studies, and the inheritance of secondary data from earlier research endeavors to accomplish the suggested research goals. The study focuses on analysing the following five categories of traditional housing architecture, which are: 1) The influence of living culture; 2) The influence of costume culture; 3) The influence of labor and production culture; 4) The influence of culture, lifestyle, local customs and practices; and 5) The influence of religious culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]