In the practice of restoration, knowledge on the primitive spatiality of buildings, their transformations throughout time and their materiality is crucial to responsibly approach this hard task. This is why the research project entitled "the construction of men's convent temples in the New Kingdom of Granada" contributes to the technical and construction-related knowledge concerning these types of patrimonial buildings. This contribution is made via the analysis of the contents of a large number of secondary sources, a documental and graphical analysis of primary sources from different files and a field exploration of each one of the studied buildings. The historical and geographical context is the so-called Colonial period, between the si...