Inadequate progress in the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions has only served to aggravate the climate emergency in the post-pandemic world. The project attempts to mitigate this from an architectural perspective with an attitude of Eco-Prometheanism. The philosophy uses technologies to alleviate the ecological crisis and in this design are applied in the form of a large-scale installation of carbon capture technology.

The Clyde C is an architectural suggestion about integrating carbon removal within a residential programme. The design is situated on an abandoned dock and former shipbuilding site in Govan, Glasgow. The project’s large scale is influenced by Glasgow’s industrial past along the River Clyde and the language of the Anthropocene.

The developed procedural system generates computational aggregations that help the optimisation of carbon capture performance. A stable carbon sink of biochar is introduced as an acoustic buffer between domestic and technology spaces and for interstitial growth.