Traditional Architectural Methods’ Sustainability to Improve Schools Buildings in Refugee Camps in Syria

Disasters pose a great danger to societies due to the impact on various aspects of life such as social, educational, economics which calls to find better post-disaster solutions. This paper is highlighting the war in Syria as one of the human-made disasters that threaten Syrian’s children present and future. Education is an essential factor in terms of societies’ recovery and to children's recovery process and overcoming the trauma of war. Providing post-disaster school building is an essential part of children's post-war recovery. The current paper is trying to identify a modular system suitable for school design and propose a school model that depends on natural materials available in the area and using the traditional architectural methods in an attempt to construct a building with a good efficiency and at lower costs. The methodology is based on a survey on a number of schools in Syria to show the impact of the war on the school buildings. The paper suggests an architectural design system to achieve the best environmental results in terms of thermal comfort and ventilation in order to minimize the cost of air-conditioning and mechanical equipment.