The cultural neighborhood of the municipality of Sykies situated beside the city’s Byzantine Walls, was created within the context of a resettlement program for refugees who arrived in Nothern Greece after the Asia Minor disaster in 1922. Its preservation and maintenance aims to offer younger generations a different perception into the refugge past by highlighting the traces of an authentic, popular, traditional architecture. At the same time, it offers the opportunity to meet many of the Municipality’ s educational and cultural needs since, apart from the residential dwellings, twenty buildings have been earmarked for use as educational laboratories, a museum and hostels. The project proposes the preservation of the existing buildings shell as well as the outdoor and semi-outdoor areas of the refugee courtyards.