Jerada is a post-mining city located in the northeastern region of Morocco, it was the biggest producer of coal in the country and in Africa, but after the sudden closure of its mining industry, the city started declining. The crisis impacted its economy, its environment and its social and urban structure. Today, Jerada is one of the most problematic territories in the country, stuck between a traditional past and a modern industrial present, and most importantly, with an obscure future. Before discovering the coal mine in the city, the community lived in a social structure based on Moroccan traditions, ethics and practices, where all the family members had a special role in their daily life, men, women and children. But after the colonialization of Morocco and the discovery of coal mine in the city, the French system implemented a whole new model of living in the city, based on the industrial coal extraction, with the main goal to make the maximum of economic profit, in consequence, the local community lost its primary core roles in the society. Jerada, where the local community is living a multidimensional crisis since the closure of the mine, socially, culturally, economically and urbanely with the huge problem of informal housing that presents 90 % of the city’s urban tissue. Today, the society of Jerada is living an identity dilemma, losing their cultural identity and collective memory due to the colonial mining era. Stuck between old traditions and colonial modernism, my primary vision of the project isn’t to erase one of the two identities or to revive one of them, neither to create a hybrid approach between the two, but to use the good of the two worlds, either tradition and modernism have pros and cons, that must be valorized or tackled, and the right choices between them, in order to see what suits today’s needs, could help to rebuild the social and urban identity of Jerada for a better future