This thesis explores how architecture might engage with Timothy Morton's concept of hyperobjects: vast, nonlocal, distributed systems that exceed human perception. Rather than trying to make these systems totally legible, which is neither possible nor desirable, this project asks how architecture might instead stage encounters with hyperobjects. Using the aluminum window mullion as an origin point, it traces networks of extraction, production, and global supply chains through notational diagrams that reveal ontological relationships. These mappings are paired with a series of architectural discursive objects that take on unique representational challenges and meanings, encouraging new + hybrid modes of legibility in the field.
