ABSTRACT
The importance of this paper focuses on the development of architectural assessment of the typology of adobe buildings in Mexicali, Mexico, which has not been documented to this day; these buildings are largely abandoned because users feel unsafe living in an adobe house in a seismic zone. This assessment supports the patrimonial value, absent for this city’s building, which is highly related to the adequate behavior of these buildings in seismic events. The classification of these buildings supports their conservation because of their local singularity, but also in order to identify the components that have allowed adobe structures, with these characteristics, to have an adequate adaptation to local weather and seismic conditions.
