ABSTRACT
The potential dynamics of the proposed site and program for the NYC2012 Olympics/Williamsburg Waterfront Park reside in the interplay of paradoxical forces that represent gaming not as a competition, but as a network of play. In such a network outcomes are not assigned a binary value such as victory or loss but are instead understood against a background of novel possibilities. Material studies become a morphological analog to this idea, in which functional changes occur when singular entities aggregate and bind into a transcatenate network. Like the Olympic Games, intricate connections of disparate bodies exchange energy while still retaining their individual characteristics. This "multi-singular network" makes it possible to imagine new, hybrid games. The knitting of a mobius-like network of these modular units creates a park on the Williamsburg Waterfront. The underlying recombinatory logic of the interwoven field produces a physical ground pregnant with unforeseen programmatic possibilities.
