Fig. 34

(a) Typical two-story building with a stone masonry at the ground floor and rammed earth walls at the first floor in Amizmiz. Cracking at the top floor goes through the interface between neighboring rammed earth blocks (credit S. Saloustros). (b) Close-up in a traditional floor system in a partially collapsed building in Amizmiz connected to the rammed earth walls through a stone masonry layer (credit S. Saloustros).