In the harsh environment of Africa, the vernacular architecture detaches the indoor from the outdoor environment through natural materials with high thermal capacities. This method, inherited from craftsmanship and knowledge of local materials and climate, is essential in sustainable design. With the rise in construction in Africa, a new trend inspired by vernacular architecture seeks to renew its passive strategies to adapt to the outdoor climate. The challenge of affordable building in educational architecture requires methods to optimize the indoor environment inspired this study. This research aims to clarify the characteristics of contemporary educational architecture in Africa by illustrating how the regional style was reinvented by comparing the vernacular models and their modern derivations. The results demonstrate the design solution to combine spatial composition and wind environment. Further, the technique and knowledge of using the thermal capacity of local materials is a solution for the built environment in the climate change era.
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