A keeper of figures.

SITU is a virtual museum of the Silk Roads — a shared, ever-expanding 3D atlas of world heritage, from Chang’an to Cairo. Each one is a place you can read, walk in 3D, draft, reconstruct, and ask. Anything you make in the studio can be reviewed, accepted, and added to the public atlas — your work, sitting next to ours.

The name is 司图 (sī-tú) — the keeper of figures. An old role for someone who minds the lines, the lists, the lay of the land. We took it for a project that does the same with heritage.

The Silk Roads sit across a dozen disciplines and ten archives. Wikipedia knows they existed, GIS knows where, museum sites hold the artifacts. None of them let you read a place, walk it, model it, and contribute back — all in one tab. SITU is the place that does.

Workspace, knowledge graph, atlas, conversation — open and free, for any researcher, any student, anyone curious. We work with architects, archaeologists, and computational humanists. If that's your kind of thing, come find us.