USC Architecture XpoInstructor: Hadrian Predock
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 […]
The American suburban house was built for the nuclear family, and its spatial logic has rarely been revised for other ways of living. A house is fundamentally about boundary negotiation yet the suburban house has one answer to all of these boundaries: a wall and a property line. My thesis argues otherwise. Drawing from the […]
The Social Spine reimagines the corridor not just as circulation but as a system that creates different modes of interactions through visibility, encounters, and spatial rhythm. Dissolving the boundaries between program and circulation, the corridor can allow different demographics — elderly, families, and young professionals — to coexist within the same linear space. By reprogramming […]