Designing research experiments for the living breakwater landscape the Banjaard 

Door klimaatverandering wordt in 2100 een zeespiegelstijging van een meter verwacht. De kustbescherming in de Voordelta moet verbeteren om de veiligheid in de toekomst te waarborgen. Omdat harde kustbescherming onvoldoende is, is de aandacht verschoven naar natuurlijke bescherming door herstel van voormalige zandbanken zoals de Banjaard.

Case Study Ontwerp Veldstation voor ‘De Banjaard’

Breakwater barrier island 'De Banjaard'

As many other parts around the world, the Schouwen coast in Zeeland, Netherlands is being threatened by the effects of climate change. Hard structures that nowadays defend us from the sea are obsolete and will not withstand the sea level rise that is predicted. We need to think of other solutions.

The Mirror Project 

Since climate change and the sea level rise caused by it cause a growing threat to the Dutch coastlines and flood safety, experts are searching for new methods to protect the land and its inhabitants from the rising sea.

De Bandjaard as coastal protection project

Through sea level rise, water is becoming an increasing threat to Zeeland. In 1960, the Eastern Scheldt barrier was built to protect Zeeland and its inhabitants from the sea. But unfortunately, it cannot withstand a sea level rise of one meter.

Developing a barrier island on the eroded Banjaard sandbar as dynamic coastal protection through Nature-Based Solutions 

The consequences of climate change heavily threat the coast of Schouwen (Zeeland, the Netherlands); the strong relative SLR, which is predicted to range from +0.54 to +1.21 metres in 2100 in the most scenario (KNMI, 2021) or even more, extreme events, and ocean acidification (IPCC, 2019) challenge us to rethink our coastal protection systems.

Meesterproef De Banjaard | Planologische Verkenning