Pierre Le Quer, Sophie Delage, and Mathieu Grenier all have diverse backgrounds from Nice to Barcelona, or from Grenoble to Marseille. Each brings to the workshop, through their training, a specialty: Urbanism, Structure, Design; this know-how makes it possible to nourish the culture of the project in its various dimensions. A common frame of thought is drawn through a method based on a sensitive reading of the elements of the landscape that mark our daily lives. Between sea and mountain, horizontal and vertical, shadow and light, lush vegetation and aridity, the Combas workshop is part of a Mediterranean school logic. «We seek in each new project, to question the territory, to promote the understanding of the places, in particular through a reading of the vernacular typologies associated with modern techniques of implementation».  Architectural design is approached as a sedimentation of knowledge: each partner approaches the project in turn through his specialty, and thus develops part of the architectural whole. The accumulation of crossed views forms a homogeneous whole thanks to a common ethic based around work on a triptych: Relationship to the ground, relationship to the sky, work with matter.