Concluding Remarks

After mapping the typologies in Ashburn, Virginia, we began to speculate on how these hybrid forms might propagate into future developments or adapt to different sites, functions, and scales. It is crucial to analyze them as particularized objects—almost like entries in an animal book—so that we can emphasize their relational qualities: how each interacts with its immediate surroundings, while also participating in an aerial, mega-scalar system that is largely devoid of the human. To meaningfully engage these types and classify them, they must be approached as entities with their own independent autonomy, perhaps even a form of sovereignty, carrying a territorial presence that extends beyond conventional architectural categories.