Evaluating the applicability of regional traditionalarchitectural elements in the post-war residential reconstruction phase in Aleppo city

Traditional architecture left us a great legacy, with its aesthetic elements that outperformed the aesthetic stagnation, that accompanied contemporary architecture, As well as its functional and environmental efficiency, without high cost, as well as its suitability to local communities, and their ways of living. Traditional architecture's positive features had a great effective role in contemporary architecture, and the presence of sustainability concept, despite the radical transformations, that took place on the contemporary era. And as a city rich with a long-standing residential architectural heritage, Aleppo city has been exposed to architectural distortions, both environmentally, and aesthetically, In the first place, due to the departure from the Alepine architectural identity, represented by its architectural elements. Then the distortion to the authentic architectural identity of Aleppo increased, while it was damaged during the conflict in Syria, And these distortions began to appear clearly in the architecture of the reconstruction stages, after the crises. So this study purpose is to prove the feasibility of re-employing traditional architectural elements and techniques in the residential architecture of the post-crisis reconstruction phase in Aleppo, In order to benefit from its advantages on the functional, environmental, and aesthetic levels, then to suggest how to use these elements within the contemporary architecture.