Vietnam 2016 / Hanoi Museum of Ethnology 2xPiP

Trinh Tuong House ( especially in mountain regions )
The Trinh Tuong is a traditional house for many minorities like H'Mong ,Ha Nhi or Ngai. From a distance the houses look like big mushrooms. A Trinh Tuong house is built on a 40 to 50 square meter plot. The clay walls are 40 to 45 cm thick and four to five meters high. The roofs of the Trinh Tuong houses were originally covered with straw. The houses of these ethnic groups have a special feature, there are no windows in their houses.
In the architecture of these peoples there is a five-room house with two bedrooms, kitchen/stay and stable and a three-room house with one bedroom, kitchen/stay and stable.
It is said that the houses are cool in summer and warm in winter.