ABSTRACT
Battery Park City functions as a point of overlap between marine and terrestrial mass transit in New York City. Global Positioning System (GPS) technology is responsible for the choreography of the ferry routes and will eventually conduct bus routes and scheduling. This situates the GPS network as the connective tissue of the transit system as well as the event-structure informing site conditions. Through satellite triangulation GPS never locates a point, but rather creates a circle with a circumference related to the estimated error. The variety of potential error sources generated by the GPS system informs analysis of site. Identification of places of potential error shapes a strategy that capitalizes on the error's destabilizing effects. Study models reflect productive applications of error found within systems. Families of units related through the ideal origin, each of which provides a series of potential connection points between itself and the field, aggregate to form a membrane with the embedded intelligence of the error-based system.
