'Marine Multifunctional Landscape Infrastructures' are multifunctional infrastructures at sea that can provide a multi-functional, integrated response to the climate challenges that we are facing. Think of artificial reefs that help to protect the coast, restore habitats and enrich biodiversity - sandbanks with aquaculture for coastal protection and food production - structures with energy storage, desalination and aquaculture - etc.
Such landscape infrastructures rarely reach the realisation phase. This is not only due to 1. economic and 2. technical reasons. Research (Hertogh TU Delft) shows that too little attention is paid to 3. social support and 4. spatial integration. Part of the D4PV@Sea study is therefore, in addition to a spatial study, also the incorporation of a co-creative aspect in which both supporters and opponents are involved from the very beginning in the design of these marine landscape infrastructures. Our research team has created a generic toolbox that can be used co-creatively for the creation of multifunctional marine landscape infrastructures around the world.
An MMLI consists of two basic components: the surface and the functions programmed on it. Percellation rules determine how these functions can be combined on the MMLI. A participatory strategy can then be used to invite co-creants to help shape an MMLI. As MMLIs have a dynamic character (the challenges they have to meet can change), the development strategies conceivable today are projected on a time scale. The future will show which course will be followed.
Result? A supported MMLI - with the necessary degrees of freedom - on its way to realisation!

The possible configurations of an MMLI are determined by hydromorphological requirements, technical requirements and by the functions on the MMLI. In cooperation with IMDC and Jan De Nul, the hydromorphological requirements were mapped out and possible island shapes were determined with their corresponding technical profiles.
The various functionalities are then placed on an MMLI. This does not just happen. Spatial preconditions indicate whether the function should be located in the subtidal, the intertidal or the supratidal zone. Within each of these zones, percellation rules then determine how functions are spatially efficiently combined. These rules derive from general principles such as 'efficient use of space', 'multiple use of space', etc.

More info about the project can be found on our website: https://orgpermod.com/systems/projects/design-4-public-value-sea