… a sound barrier (picture).
The goal of this ongoing project is to find a way to reduce low frequency noise pollution emitted by aircraft during take-off at Schiphol’s Polder runway (NB.: A polder is an area of low-lying land, especially in the Netherlands, that has been reclaimed from a body of water and is protected by dikes).
A design contest called “Creating a Sound Barrier” was launched in 2009 by Amsterdam Schiphol Airport authorities. It involved nine companies and twenty seven men and women. The winner of the design project is an architecture firm called Brandes en Meurs.
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