Hypergreen

Central park is a green hole within the grid machine of Manhattan. Here the sensation of the 'natural' is simulated through the performance of an artificial landscape constructed by F. L. Olmstead. Taking this as a point of departure for generating a jungle at the proposed location, our goal is to create an extension and mutation of the present condition into a virtual construct, instead of simply covering of the park with physical construction. The intention is to construct an architectural simulacrum where the virtual and the physical intermingle and coexist simultaneously. The simulacrum extends the imaginary as well as the phenomenal into the domain of cyberspace. The park becomes the arena upon which the transaction between the actual and the virtual takes place. Forming a "Digital Halo" for central park, the cloud houses a source of possible worlds. The Digital Halo is a virtual expression of the universe of branching systems forming into a constellation or virtual cloud. The virtual and actual presentation are an interconnected entity, the boundaries of which are constantly questioned. There is a modification of the virtual and the actual thereby elevating its phenomena into the sphere of the hypersensations. The virtual is defined as a domain of the set of possible relations contained within the structure of the given problem. The actual infuses the virtual with desires and its first reality manifestations. The universal turing machine is an instrument that generates the garden. The virtual cloud is a receptacle or a matrix that dynamically changes its morphology in relation to the changes and mutations occurring within the axiomatic infrastructure of the L-systems. Out of an infinite number of possible formations specific events crystallize into constructs at the lower level, on the parkscape. Crystallization evolves through an aggregation of the axioms' phenotypes along the lines of a more informed system of distribution, the "Polyzom". Polyzom is the gene that generates a phenotype, the hybrid between a polycentric and a rhizomatic organization. It operates as an interlocking and nested arrangement of hypercycles. Each axiom is a multicycle or a complex looping that generates different aggregations by actualizing them on the plane of consistency. Hypercycles occur within each plane defined by transversal communication and rhizomatic formations as well as between the plane of consistency and the sphere of virtuality. Each axiom is a subset of a monad, which is defined by the L-system. Diagrammatic formation of the virtual cloud is mapped through hypergraphs that show the coordination of monads on the ground by utilizing multiple coordinate systems within the Cartesian - Euclidean representation of space. The simple structure of the axiom together with its high recursion/nesting level allows for both distinct interconnected fields of accumulation and rhizomatic growth in horizontal manner.