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ORG Permanent Modernity announced that it has been chosen as a Winner in the category of Unbuilt Landscape in the 2022 Architizer A+Awards for THE DESIGN FOR PUBLIC VALUE project, a maritime multifunctional landscape infrastructure.
The Architizer A+Awards is a highly distinguished international prize in architecture and urbanism. It is an unparalleled honor that this project has been selected to represent the best of design worldwide among entries from over 80 countries. The Architizer A+ Jury Winner is selected by an illustrious jury, comprising architects and designers, media luminaries, tech and business leaders, and other creatives.
The project will be published in Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture 2022 book.
Project Details
In this project, ORG led research and design for a Maritime Multifunctional Landscape Infrastructure (MMLI) to serve as an integrated response to the societal, environmental, energy, and climate challenges being faced today. The MMLI includes artificial reefs to protect the coast, restore habitats, and enrich biodiversity, sandbanks with aquaculture for coastal protection and food production, renewable energy production such as wind, wave, and solar, structures with blue energy battery, hydrogen, and CO2 storage, data centers, desalination, research facilities, monitoring stations, ecotourism, etc.
In short, the MMLI functions as a complex system of infrastructures operating in harmony, while appearing as a landscape or island. As a whole, the MMLI works to provide a clean energy future and support flourishing ecological systems. The project includes an in-depth environmental and co-creation study to provide a realizable, well-supported implementation scheme, along with verified environmental benefits.
Technical sheet
Location: North Sea, Belgium
Year: 2019 - 2020
Area: 6-10 Km²
Program: Energy, Aquaculture, Offshore, Infrastructure, Landscape
Collaborators: Deme, Jan De Nul Group, Econopolis, Imdc, Common Ground, Tractebel – Engie
Team
Alexander D’hooghe, Timothy Vanagt, Yannick Vanhaelen, Mae Emerick, Caterina Dubini, Basil Descheemaeker, Elena Kasselouri, Heinrich Altenmueller, Ivana Vukelic
Clients
Innoviris.Brussels, Vlaio – Flemish Agency Innovation & Entrepreneurship
About ORG Permanent Modernity
ORG Permanent Modernity is a research, strategy, and design group, with offices in Brussels and New York City. Architects, engineers, urban planners, ecologists, economists, coalition strategists, and policy and process designers work together to tackle complex projects. The group thinks, designs, and connects on multiple levels of scale: from architecture to regional and international systems. ORG draws, calculates, and unites across domains of knowledge in order to calculate consequences of choices beyond any conventional production system. ORG has three dedicated departments, each with their own expertise: Architecture, Urbanism, and Systems. Each department takes a transdisciplinary approach, interweaving multiple skillsets and services to develop transformative projects that integrate place, space, systems, strategy, and policy.
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