Planning and architecture. Searching for an approach

River and lake Agreements, international competitions, academic Workshops and Design Ateliers were the starting point for our experimentation with integrated transcalar design. This method combines urban planning and architectural tools and approaches in an attempt to overcome the limitations of sectoral measures. Territorial design requires new vision and the ability to integrate all aspects of the project in order to overcome the traditional chronological sequence between planning and architectural design; to achieve this goal individual elements and the overall system should be considered together. Decision-making and implementation need new tools to involve and raise awareness in both public and private actors. Our target involved finding an architecture that forgoes self-referential formalisms; through its contribution to urban and territorial design and the elaboration of urban planning rules and regulations, this idea of architecture can create long-lasting and long-term effects. At the same time, it also sparks a more in-depth debate about urban design, spanning from the creation of large-scale scenarios to experimental architecture in settlements.