**Abstract**

Adana city has a significant risk for seismicity in the past, today, and in the future. Therefore, traditional unreinforced masonry houses in Adana city and their structural qualifications are essential to provide information on these buildings, which will be of value to researchers and practitioners, policymakers, and disaster managers. Therefore, one of the traditional houses was examined by identifying the construction details, damage, and collapse analysis in the Tepebağ settlement. At the end of the study, the construction details and their description could be added to the literature. In addition, the rule of art was used for interpreting the crack, damage, and predicted structure collapse scenario. Working on the rule of art was not enough separately to identify the collapsed analysis of the building. Besides, engineering applications and calculations are the other critical scientific aspects for determining the collapsed scenario. However, the rule of art is efficient for architects to predict the damage and collapsed analyses of the old structures.

**Keywords:** traditional houses, masonry wall, seismicity
