2021-2022
Speculative Design
The Bartlett School of Architecture
Tutors: Prof. Laura Allen, Prof. Mark Smout
Speculative Design
The Bartlett School of Architecture
Tutors: Prof. Laura Allen, Prof. Mark Smout
The Forest
Carbon Capture in a Progressive Town
Carbon Capture in a Progressive Town
Milton Keynes has always been an experimental city that heralds bold future-proofing schemes. Aligned with the city's ambition to hold a leading role in integrating green technology, the Milton Keynes Council launches an exemplar infrastructure - The Forest - to capture carbon dioxide and carbon credit.
The Forest captures carbon dioxide from the ambient air like a real forest, with its extensive surface area being a thousand times more efficient than an authentic woodland of the same footprint. It is also made from the same material as a real forest—The timber structure sequestrates carbon dioxide. Responding to the urban planning of Central Milton Keynes (CMK), it is a public green space that reveals and demonstrates the human-induced carbon cycles. The infrastructure is a living ecosystem that synchronises with CMK, supplying waste heat to the city. The skin of the building unveils the carbon capture process at a monumental scale.
The project integrates and displays new environmental technologies in an urban environment as radical infrastructure. Being a progressive icon for CMK after 50 years of its birth, The Forest erects a new city image that celebrates and reshapes the modernist new town.
The Forest captures carbon dioxide from the ambient air like a real forest, with its extensive surface area being a thousand times more efficient than an authentic woodland of the same footprint. It is also made from the same material as a real forest—The timber structure sequestrates carbon dioxide. Responding to the urban planning of Central Milton Keynes (CMK), it is a public green space that reveals and demonstrates the human-induced carbon cycles. The infrastructure is a living ecosystem that synchronises with CMK, supplying waste heat to the city. The skin of the building unveils the carbon capture process at a monumental scale.
The project integrates and displays new environmental technologies in an urban environment as radical infrastructure. Being a progressive icon for CMK after 50 years of its birth, The Forest erects a new city image that celebrates and reshapes the modernist new town.