A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH TO STUDY THE CAUSES OF PATHOLOGIES IN MOROCCAN BUILDINGS
Morocco has a material heritage that bears witness to a history that has been enriched over time by different influences. Several archaeological sites, Roman ruins, ksours and kasbahsconstitute the base of our heritage and it becomes urgent to safeguard it. The medinas also highlight the know-how of Moroccan craftsmanship, which we find in traditional buildings, which unfortunately today, for reasons of insalubrity and a weakness of iridescence, are not always easy to find and to preserve. The medinas also highlight the know-how of Moroccan craftsmanship, which we find in traditional buildings, which unfortunately today, for reasons of insalubrity and a weakness of implication of the city policies in this direction, fall gradually in ruins, generating a loss of an exceptional heritage. Indeed, the traditional construction is characterized by an organization of spaces around a central structural system composed of walls, beams and pillars, called: halqa. It rests on load-bearing walls of brick and rubble and floors of cedar wood joists. Currently occupied by several households, and undergoing degradations mainly due to the traditional or modern sewerage networks, as well as to the nature of their ground of establishment, the traditional buildings constitute a danger initially for their inhabitants. In this respect, the purpose of this paper is to present the causes of the pathologies met in the traditional buildings and in reinforced concrete in Morocco based on the data available in various scientific sources.
Moroccan Traditional Building, Stability, Reinforced Concrete, Cracking Deformation, Humidity Settlement, Corrosion.