BioReef: An Open, Modular Skeleton for Passive Marine Habitat Regeneration

This preprint presents the BioReef Open Skeleton: a boundary-defined, modular structural framework for passive marine habitat regeneration. The work deliberately restricts itself to the system “bones” — geometry, flow interaction principles, deployment logic, and failure tolerance — while omitting region-specific optimisation, material branding, and closed implementations. BioReef is intended as an enabling substrate rather than a finished product: a neutral, discipline-agnostic scaffold designed to integrate seamlessly into existing marine restoration, engineering, and ecological practice. The system emphasises robustness, partial-failure tolerance, and ecological succession over performance maximisation,…