In the interrelationship between humans and the environment, the body interacts with the landscape, determining spatial-temporal relationships and parameters.  From a design perspective, relating is approached as an instance of experimentation where various agents (in this case, air, earth, water, and gravity) operate as elements that, as a result of their interaction and impact, trace, mark, and sketch, drawing new micro-geographies.  The notion of scale appears as that infinity of dimensions and proportions where it is possible to observe how the macro and micro relate reciprocally and intimately. Thus, design establishes possible links between the macrocosm of the earth and the microcosm of its small fragments. 

 

This relationship between immensity and fragment that underlies the notion of scale is approached from geography as the need to establish a geographical parameter that allows for the analysis of a specific element of the territory, in this case, the soil.

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In the process of understanding the location and distribution of geographical phenomena, it is necessary to carry out a detailed study of the components present and how they interact. In this way, the underlying processes that explain them can be understood.

Analysis in geography, as in any scientific discipline, is the in-depth study of a particular phenomenon or topic in order to gain a more complete understanding of it. Morphogenesis and pedogenesis study the origin and evolution of landforms and soils, respectively, both of which are directly correlated. Thus, a morphogenetic analysis seeks to establish relationships between landscape forms and the processes that gave rise to them. Similarly, a pedogenetic analysis studies the relationships between soil properties—e.g., color, granulometry, pH, among others—and the processes that originated them. The texture and structure of soils, for example, can lead us to infer levels of weathering and the climatic conditions that favored them. Meanwhile, the proportion of organic carbon and oxidation, grain size, and pH can account for different contact zones (erosion or accumulation), which are directly related to slope. Stratigraphy, for its part, allows for the relative dating of soil horizons, which is also reflected in the relative grain size and color tone, with older horizons having darker colors and finer grains.