The possibility of characterising an existing building based on a limited set of attributes would permit building a semantical, graphical or even conceptual model that could serve as a reference for analytical purposes. Providing that the intent of the analysis and the evaluation procedures are consistent with each other and coherent with the description, it is plausible to assume that the data required to build such a conceptual model could be obtained by resorting, for example, to an ad-hoc survey composed of a set of pre-selected parameters. In the context of a growing interest in preserving Mexican cultural heritage, there has been a continuous effort to catalogue the buildings that, under the corresponding legal definition, are considered historical monuments; in this case, all constructions dated from the early 16th century until 1900. This catalogue has allowed putting together a comprehensive database of the Mexican architectonic heritage. Among other applications, this catalogue has been used to support intervention decision making, particularly in the sequence of recent seismic events in Mexico. Much of the information included in the current version of the catalogue is related to the buildings’ structural characteristics, making it pertinent to discuss the suitability of using these data for feeding simplified vulnerability assessment methodologies. With this in view, the present paper explores and discusses the feasibility of a transversal use of an index-based seismic vulnerability assessment approach for façade walls together with the Mexican National Catalogue of Historical Monuments. For such, the methodology—a pre-established vulnerability assessment approach for façade walls—was applied to a set of representative masonry buildings damaged by the 2017 Puebla earthquake. Furthermore, this paper offers a proposal for enhancing the existing survey to obtain data that would permit to include a semi-quantitative index for vulnerability as a part of the current catalogue works.

根据一组有限的属性来表征现有建筑的可能性将允许构建语义、图形甚至概念模型，作为分析目的的参考。如果分析的意图和评估程序彼此一致并与描述一致，则可以假设构建这样一个概念模型所需的数据可以通过求助于例如广告来获得由一组预选参数组成的临时调查。在保护墨西哥文化遗产的兴趣日益浓厚的背景下，一直在努力对根据相应法律定义被视为历史古迹的建筑物进行编目；在这种情况下，所有的建筑都可以追溯到 16 世纪初到 1900 年。该目录允许将墨西哥建筑遗产的综合数据库放在一起。在其他应用中，该目录已被用于支持干预决策，特别是在墨西哥最近的地震事件序列中。当前版本目录中包含的大部分信息都与建筑物的结构特征有关，因此有必要讨论使用这些数据来提供简化的脆弱性评估方法的适用性。有鉴于此，本文探讨并讨论了横向使用基于指数的地震脆弱性评估方法对立面墙以及墨西哥国家历史古迹目录的可行性。对于这样，该方法——一种预先建立的外墙脆弱性评估方法——被应用于一组在 2017 年普埃布拉地震中受损的代表性砖石建筑。此外，本文提出了一项建议，以加强现有调查以获得数据，从而允许将脆弱性的半定量指数作为当前目录工作的一部分。