Urban Hyperobjects
Objects: Architecture and Nature Within the Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO), we can think of architecture and nature as equal objects. In this case, there is no hierarchy between them but instead they have an equal value. Looking deeper into how each object works, we find that they are constantly interconnected, but that they also coexist one inside the other. There is a series of affiliations between these objects, and the more we understand them the more we know they are connected. They exist in way that they have a gap between what they are and how they appear, and are constant footprints of hyperobjects. For this book, architecture, urbanization, cities, nature, and global warming are all hyperobjects. These hyperobjects magnify the wierdness of things for our inspection, and are not simply mental constructs but real entities whose reality is withdrawn from humans. As these hyperobjects are interconnected and correlated, they remain without any hierarchy inbetween.
Figure 7: Chunk model of “Urban Catalyst� Fall Studio 2019 Project by Valeria Cedillos and Victoria Tsukerman. Instructor: Oliver Schaper and Emilija Landsbergis. Pratt GAUD 2019.
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