super-positions defends a deep understanding of architecture and the city as a representation of their material and immaterial histories. History and analysis are to be considered both as a methodological support and as an operational tool, at all scales, from architecture to the city.
super-positions studies architecture and the city through multiple research tools. Written and drawn sources (theoretical texts or archival materials) and physical traces (that allow the reading of both the archaeology of the built environment and the territory as palimpsest) testify to the breadth and richness of the means employed.
super-positions tests the significance of ideas, built objects and unbuilt spaces in the longue durée, from their genesis, via their construction, to their reception. The perspective is open to the international community and rejects any cultural compartmentalisation.
super-positions reveals the stratification of the built environment and of the territory, through a process of decomposition and recomposition, using a multiplicity of writing and representation tools –drawing, surveying, cartography. The new knowledge thus produced wishes to nourish reflections on architectural and territorial projects.
super-positions develops project strategies in the existing built environment by identifying cultural values specific to architecture, the city and the territory. These intrinsic values, appropriately selected, ordered and prioritized, are the true fil rouge of future interventions.