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 large surface being a thousand times more efficient than an authentic woodland. The timber structure sequestrates carbon dioxide during construction. Being a new green space responding to the urban planning of Central Milton Keynes, it is a public space that reveals and demonstrates the human-induced carbon cycles. The infrastructure is a living ecosystem that synchronises with Central Milton Keynes, supplying waste heat to the area. The skin of the building unveils the carbon capture process to the city at a monumental scale.

The project explores integrating and displaying new environmental technologies in an urban environment as radical infrastructure. 50 years from its birth, The Forest erects a new progressive icon that celebrates and reshapes the modernist new town.