Thats an average of about 1,300 flights every day, or nearly a flight every minute.
In other words, Schiphol is very busy and very loud.
For years, residents complained about the incessant rumbling din produced every time an aircraft took off.
The idea to engage a landscape artist to solve a technical problem was born out of an accident.
There are 150 perfectly straight and symmetrical furrows with six foot high ridges between them.
These simple ridges have reduced noise levels by more than half.
He is sometimes referred to as the father of acoustics.
Today, we call them Chladni figures.
Paul De Korts landscaping work around Amsterdam Airport Schiphol eventually became a 36-hectare park called Buitenschot.
Various paths run through the park area.
Theres a paved bicycle lane in the center and a paved footpath crosses the park.
The most informal online grid is created by the grassy and cut paths between the ridges.
The plan is to achieve a noise reduction of up to 10 decibels.
All photographs courtesy Paul De Kort and H+N+S Landscape Architects.
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Sources:Gizmodo/Smithsonian/Landscape The Journal/Works That Work
