The initiative arises from the need to connect on the basis of a bridge or a series of them the great barrier island with the neighboring islands of the Hauraki Gulf.
This proposal on the contrary seeks primarily to create the necessary means to contribute to the regeneration of an aquatic ecosystem belonging to the marine park of the Hauraki Gulf which has been significantly affected over time due to pollution and overfishing altering in this way the existing trophic and environmental system.
That is why the interrelation between the gulf, its islands and basins is necessary to maintain the vital support of the environment which is a matter of national importance, besides that the marine park of the Hauraki Gulf is clearly different from other conservation areas of New Zealand, not only because it is a marine environment, but because it is home to more than one million people along its coasts and islands. It also contains a series of wildlife sanctuaries like no other in New Zealand.
This interrelation aims to be materialized through a proposal that is proportional to the historical, traditional, cultural, spiritual and natural relationship of the Hauraki Gulf and its surroundings using the connection through bridges as a pretext to regenerate and safeguard an ecosystem as fragile as it is the maritime.
This proposal would create the necessary conditions to induce the processes that generate a conformation and restoration of a marine biotic network through artificial reefs with the capacity to attract and harbor life since it is known that these have the capacity to generate new colonies of fauna species and marine flora, the natural structures that adhere to these processes will be the support that gives way to the connections between islands. This hybrid creation of artificial structure, but of natural appropriation will be geographic elements that emerge from the ocean as complements to the existing maritime landscape in the context of the Hauraki gulf. The islets resulting from these processes based on the reefs will form structures similar to atolls that will communicate with each other forming bridges that in turn will be linked to the landscape idiosyncrasies of that region of the Pacific Ocean.
Finally, this group of islets will form a permeable barrier that will act as a transition between the marine park of the Hauraki Gulf and the Pacific Ocean. This barrier is intended to prevent bad human practices such as overfishing and pollution from spreading beyond the gulf, on the other hand, the barrier aims to contribute towards the ecological restoration of the gulf which has been affected for several years by these same reasons. This is how a parallel is established between the Great Barrier Island as a great geographic element that protects the Hauraki Gulf and its coasts from sea currents and waves, and the islets created as complementary geographic elements as a barrier that protects the ocean from the bad practices of the human being.