Abstract
This paper is an investigation of the humidity behavior of clay according to the design of historical monuments related to different dynasties in Morocco and classified as a world cultural heritage by UNESCO. The first step consisted of a diagnosis of the capillarity behavior of different design wall’s dynasties’. The second step consisted of a comparison of the humidity behavior of clay according to a different kind of the wall’s design located in Rabat as c and Fez as a dry and continental climate cities built by those dynasties’ Al Mohade and Alaouite. The method X-Ray was used for the identification of the material studied and samples were produced to analyze the humidity behavior of walls, according to their design: full walls or hollowed ones. Results indicate that the hallowed walls loosed water quickly in a very short time doesn’t exceed five days, however, the full ones keep water until the tenth day. According to the results authors’ advice on the manner of preservation of historical monuments to increase their lifetime.
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