The North Sea is organized and exploited in a rather intensive, anthropocentric way. As a result, the natural biotope is relegated to the background, having to evolve and adapt in the small cracks of this man-made network. Today, with the disruption of ecosystems and rising sea levels, this overexploitation is altering the local flora and fauna and all its biotopes.

The project statement would be as follows:
What if we rethought marine spatial planning in a non-anthropocentric way?
What if we moved away from a techno-scientific, economically-oriented type of maritime activity to involve more stakeholders in this metabolism of the landscape?

The project therefore aims to propose a new condition of interspecies cohabitation by introducing a network of artificial islands, both as a restored sanctuary for existing biodiversity and as an invitation to interact more closely with it as humans, in an amphibious landscape. This archipelago system would act as a buffer zone between the ongoing expansion and intensification of current shipping routes and the estuary, filtering the passage of ships (with the Antwerpen - Zeebrugge merger) and acting as a series of barrier islands for coastal protection and a natural method of beach nourishment through sediment deposition. This archipelago, initially conceived as an artificial state, would evolve gradually over time.