Rural Damascus, Syria This project examines a critical transitional moment in rural building culture—where conflict, displacement, and material disruption have fractured longstanding ties between communities and the earth-based techniques that once shaped daily life. Focusing on Earthen structures, the project documents how traditional practices have been interrupted, improvised, or revived in response to the demands of post-conflict recovery. In many cases, these methods persist out of necessity; in others, they are re-learned as part of a broader search for stability and self-reliance. The project explores resilience not only as physical rebuilding, but as a cultural process. The study captures how material choices reflect broader tensions between survival, memory, and adaptation.