Building with Nature as integrated design of infrastructures

Many people associate Building with Nature its flagship project, the Sand Motor. This mega-nourishment redefined role of natural processes in civil engineering projects, demonstrating that instead ‘do no harm’ as highest possible supporting goal coastal infrastructure, design could incorporate to attain societal and ecological goals. As such, Motor represents a key example integrated infrastructures. In this contribution, we pursue an improved understanding infrastructures, by comparing illustrative against framework based on transport infrastructures occasional flood defence. It turns out application from one domain another - conscious act interdisciplinary learning results modification framework. Although fits well many existing attributes for (the life cycle approach, adaptive adding functionalities), attribute (dynamics) adds unique box integrality index. intellectual effort raises two issues. demonstrates our is rather specific different infrastructure-domains. Second, it likely bandwidth uncertainty incorporation infrastructure design, changing behaviour structure itself maintenance phase, has implications governance regime such