Chia-Yi Chou Y4
The Forest Milton Keynes has always been an experimental city that heralds bold future-proofing schemes. Aligned with the city's ambition to integrate green technology with city hardware and software, the project envisages an exemplar infrastructure 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. The Forest creates a new city image for Milton Keynes on its fiftieth anniversary.
