Out of the four scales of interaction of the human being with the physical environment—ground organism, urban organism, building and home—this line of research focuses on the first one. The point of departure is, therefore, the ground, the vastest and all-embracing support of human activity and, consequently, the result of the diachronic processes of occupying and producing the natural environment.

Researchers in this field aim to understand this process through two convergent vectors. The first is methodological, which tackles the ground as an element that tends to recognise, systematise and develop the specific techniques and instruments of ground analysis while compiling and collecting the scarce, although not irrelevant, contributions to the topic that architecture had made throughout the past century. The second vector is empirical, and its objective is to obtain data on specific grounds as the memory and structure of the Guadalquivir Valley coordinator of Andalusia has done

Researchers in this field intend to identify and define the structures and elements with which the ground was historically constructed. In this process, we intend to identify the space-time relationships that, among those elements, have been produced in order to understand, measure and format the factors that characterise the process of transformation of the natural environment in anthropogenic space.

The R&D&I Project: The Towers System of Medieval Islamic Origin in the Sierra de Segura, implementation, Constructive Techniques and Restoration of Rammed Earth (HAR-2014-53866-R), financed by the Ministry of the Economy and Competitiveness, is currently in the developmental stage and adheres to this line of research.