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ArchitectureGraduation project · 2025Graduation projectJrai culturePleikuCultural heritage

Gia Tuấn

A museum shaped around a simple idea: helping people come together and experience Jrai festival culture up close.

Aerial rendering of the circular Jrai culture museum beside Biển Hồ, set low among pine-covered hills and cultivated landscape.
01Hội at Biển Hồ
Portrait of architect Lê Gia Tuấn seated in a white shirt in front of bamboo.
Lê Gia Tuấn · Project creator
Meet the creator

Lê Gia Tuấn

This project grew through many conversations between Gia Tuấn and La Commune de Pleiku—about heritage, art, and the sense of gathering that shapes life in the Central Highlands.

Gia Tuấn led the architecture from start to finish. We were glad to be there early on, sharing references, questions, and honest feedback as the idea took shape.

M(+84) 773 485 256Egiatuans.arch@gmail.com
Detailed site plan showing the circular museum, ceremonial approach, lakeside setting, and landscape routes.
02Detailed site plan
Architectural board mapping the museum zoning, circular movement, and sequential visitor journey beside a dark interior rendering.
03Museum journey
Ground-floor architectural plan organised around the museum's large circular ceremonial courtyard and axial approach.
04Ground-floor plan
First-floor architectural plan showing exhibition rooms and circulation wrapped around the central courtyard.
05First-floor plan
Second-floor architectural plan showing the upper circular route and spaces surrounding the ceremonial void.
06Second-floor plan
Long museum section showing the rising roof, central Neu pole, circular courtyard, exhibition levels, and relationship to the land.
07East–west section
Rainy exterior rendering of visitors approaching the museum beneath the broad circular roof and between carved guardians.
08Rain court approach
Long architectural section through the museum, rising ceremonial roof, Neu pole, exhibition floors, and wooded horizon.
09North–south section
Aerial rendering of the circular museum, long ceremonial approach, pine forest, lake, and surrounding highland terrain.
10Museum in the landscape
Elevated frontal rendering looking along the approach toward the circular museum and tall central Neu pole under an overcast sky.
11Ceremonial axis
Distant landscape rendering of the low circular museum and vertical tower reflected across Biển Hồ beneath misty hills.
12Biển Hồ landscape
Daylight view from beneath the roof toward the curved ceremonial courtyard, central Neu pole, and patterned openings.
13Courtyard in daylight
Ceremonial courtyard rendering with people gathering in a circular Xoang dance around the Neu pole.
14Xoang around the Neu pole
Visitors walking between carved Jrai funerary figures along the museum approach toward the landscape.
15Funerary guardians
Dark interactive exhibition interior where visitors stand beneath suspended gong forms around a circular floor pattern.
16Interactive gong space
Night view of a ceremony radiating from the Neu pole in the museum's circular courtyard beneath a star-filled sky.
17Neu pole at night
Three interior renderings showing interactive exhibition screens, the ceremonial ramp, and a low circular display hall.
18Exhibition interiors
Night rendering looking down on the central Neu pole and radiating ceremonial lines inside the museum courtyard.
19Ritual centre at night
Architectural study board tracing the museum's circular form, Rông-house roof language, timber structure, stone, and earth materials.
20Form and material study

Project details

Created by
Lê Gia Tuấn
Graduation project
Jrai Culture Museum of Rituals and Festivals
The idea
Hội
What we shared
Early conversations, cultural references, and creative feedback
Site
Biển Hồ, Pleiku, Gia Lai, Vietnam
Size
16,510 m²
Year
Graduation project · 2025
University
University of Architecture Ho Chi Minh City
Academic mentor
Dr. Phạm Phú Cường
Recognition
Second Prize, Loa Thành Awards 2025 · Tamayouz Top 100
Project images
Shared by Lê Gia Tuấn through World Architecture Community

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