Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities of Incorporating Traditional Ethnic Minority Design into Contemporary Resort Architecture in Vietnam

Exploiting traditional architecture combined with modern architecture is a topic promoted by many countries around the world over the past decades. Vietnam has 54 ethnic groups living in different natural and climatic conditions, creating a diverse cultural identity. Resort is a group of projects with great potential in integrating traditional ethnic minority design into contemporary solutions. The goal of the article is to synthesize opportunities and challenges in integrating traditional ethnic minority design into contemporary resort architecture in Vietnam along with design recommendations to improve exploitation efficiency. Exploiting the above values for new projects in a more sustainable way. Research methods focus on collecting, analyzing and synthesizing documents to cover many elements of resort design according to an integrated design orientation. The results of the article meet the research objectives with recommendations from general to detailed. Draw conclusions for the architecture of resorts in Vietnam with many regions with architectural values of ethnic minorities.