Reviving Vietnamese Traditional Values within Đạo Mẫu Museum

A museum building complex made from thousands of clay tiles spans in the middle of the 50-year-old orchard which preserves the existing historical buildings to preserve the architecture and Vietnamese traditional culture.

Đạo Mẫu Museum by ARB Architects stands on a beautiful 50-year-old orchard  (cr: Trieu Chien) 

Inspired by the Vietnamese belief in a goddess,  Đạo Mẫu, which has been believed for years, ARB architects collaborated with a Vietnamese artist and transformed an old building complex into a brand-new museum. 

a remarkable Đạo Mẫu Museum by ARB Architects (cr: Trieu Chien) 

Stands on a 5.000 sqm area, this building keeps the old buildings such as the houses and the gate pillars to preserve the authenticity of its architecture. Around the old house which has been transformed into a display area that displays the artifacts that connected to the Đạo Mẫu, is placed several new buildings such as galleries and a kitchen. Besides keeping the landscape, the reuse concept of the old buildings aims to preserve the traditional values that are kept inside the building. 

Đạo Mẫu Museum's masterplan (cr: ARB Architects) 

Đạo Mẫu Museum by ARB Architects (cr: Trieu Chien) 

This building preservation is also shown through the reuse of the existing materials such as the clay tiles from hundred old houses that existed there. Thousands of clay tiles are arranged at every turn of the building to revive the traditional values inside the building. Those clay tiles integrate harmoniously with the landscape, giving a beautiful scene of how traditional architecture and landscape become a perfect harmonization. 

the clay tiles integrate harmoniously with the landscape (cr: Trieu Chien) 

showing the beautiful scene of how traditional architecture and landscape harmonize perfectly (cr: Trieu Chien) 

The existing trees on the landscape are kept and stand side by side with the building, giving a perfect frame on how the building should respect the existing landscape that has existed far before the building. It aims to preserve the historical values that are kept on every angle of the landscape. The presence of historical values and traditional values at every turn in the Đạo Mẫu museum's success in keeping the traditional values that have been culturally inherent for the Vietnamese.

preserving the historical values of the landscape (cr: Trieu Chien) 

Đạo Mẫu Museum by ARB Architects (cr: Trieu Chien)