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Hyperobjects as phenomena in the Third landscape

In the second half of the twentieth century, architectural thought placed its focus on environmental issues that question the position of man on Earth. Since then, several terms that describe and conceptualize these issues in different theoretical frameworks have been introduced into the architectural language. This research will focus on two such interdisciplinary concepts: 1. hyperoject - a term formulated in philosophy by Timothy Morton, which encompasses various phenomena in nature caused by human action; 2. the Third landscape - a phenomenon that Gilles Clement defines within landscape architecture and which recognizes a new typology of landscape as a territory of diversity, in the permeation of natural and artificial context.
The superposition of selected concepts, which are observed in the same spatial and temporal proportions, opens a discussion on this topic within the framework of ecological, cultural, and aesthetic discourse. The starting hypothesis of this research is that the fragment and the whole, in the context of the global network of hyperobjects as phenomena in the third landscape, are one. In this regard, this research aims to form a model at the location of the Bor mine, Serbia, which could be translated to all landscapes of this category and which, ultimately, presupposes a re-examination of the concept of local.
This research includes the regeneration of the mine and the projection of the scientific campus at the moment of complete depletion of mineral resources on a global level. The result of the research is the Terra Posteterna simulation, which examines the potentials for the restoration of devastated ecosystems of localities through the design of specific architectural and infrastructural forms in a posthumanist framework and according to the postulates of the Third landscape, apropos, "from the landscape".
Hyperobjects as phenomena in the Third landscape
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Hyperobjects as phenomena in the Third landscape

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