SOM reveals a model for carbon-negative architecture, the ‘Urban Sequoia’, during COP26, the UN Climate Change ConferenceArchitecture and the built environment have received scant attention in the coverage of COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference. It’s an obvious blind spot given that the building sector currently generates 40 per cent of all global carbon emissions and that massive population growth and increased urbanisation mean there’s a lot more building to be done.
The concept doesn’t suggest one big fix but demonstrates how a number of strategies and emerging technologies – from biomaterials and biomass to carbon-capture technologies – can be optimised and work together and at scale. ‘The power of this idea is how achievable it is,’ argues Yasemin Kologlu, principal at SOM. ‘Our proposal brings together new design ideas with nature-based solutions, emerging and current carbon absorption technologies, and integrates them in a way not done before in the built environment.’
SOM imagines the building as the hub of a number of virtuous circles and value chains, the focus of a new economy for carbon and biomaterials. Biomass and algae on its façade could turn the building into a source of biofuel that powers heating systems and evenand aeroplanes. It would also be a source of bioprotein. Captured carbon could also be used in various industrial processes.
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