As they were designing these shell patterns, the perception of the motorist became very important. "When driving over or through those plateaus, you are facing a rhythm of black and white shells and black and white birds," Geuze explains. "In my view, this project is a beautiful example of the relation of technology-the citizen speeding in a car-with the ecology of the Delta." These plateaus offer the driver not only a perspective of living graphic patterns, but open panoramas across the sea.

Sources and web sites:

A transcript from "Black and White." This was a lecture given by Adriaan Geuze at the Doors of Perception 3 Conference in 1995.

Kuper, Marijke. Nine+One: Ten Young Dutch Architectural Offices. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 1997.

Lootsma, Bart. Adriaan Geuze, West 8 Landscape Architecture. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 1995.