Cultural heritage, Built environment, Landscape Integrated Studies

The research group takes historical areas, the values they embody, and the design perspectives associated with them as a shared field of reference. The fields of work, primarily urban and territorial, encompass cultural, spatio-temporal, environmental, technical-constructional, figurative, and hermeneutic dimensions. Research relies on well-established disciplinary tools, alongside innovative forms of local knowledge production that integrate fieldwork and community engagement.
Cultural heritage is approached in its multiple forms, tangible and intangible, formally recognised as well as informal. The research is grounded in historical processes, from early civilisations to major recent transformations, with particular reference to urban history and Digital Humanities methodologies, to promote the conservation and enhancement of heritage as an inclusive resource for society.
The built environment is examined through the relationship between settlement spaces, dwelling cultures, and landscape, in line with objectives of sustainability, circularity, resilience, and inclusiveness.
The group develops techniques for the analysis, conception, transformation, recovery, and management of the built environment: the history of construction techniques and systems; bio-based and geo-based materials; the sustainable use of energy and resources; environmental design and the design of complex healthcare buildings; and modelling for the safety of built heritage.
Landscape is adopted as a field of research and design which, through a multiscalar reading of open space, interprets the relationships between natural and cultural systems, with particular attention to the regeneration of the urban environment in the face of climate change and biodiversity loss, to make open spaces more resilient, inclusive, and adaptive.