Carbon Nexus
Carbon Nexus is a speculative architectural prototype in Kingsway Business Park, Rochdale — a landscape shaped by the cotton industry and now reimagined as the birthplace of a sentient carbon-capture structure. Designed in response to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the project merges 3D printing, carbon sequestration, and kinetic systems into a biomechanical architecture that acts as a factory and organism.
The design begins with a core module, the “Nest”, which captures CO₂ from the atmosphere and uses it as printable material. This unit then fabricates the rest of the building — exhibition zones, printing area, and factory area. The structure features a Voronoi exoskeleton with kinetic air vents, dynamically responding to local environmental conditions, including sunlight, rain, air quality, and frost. Its ETFE membrane panels, 3D-printed carbon-captured structural facade, and resin-infused T-steel anchors embody a fusion of organic form and industrial logic.
My work explores the future of architecture as a responsive, evolving ecosystem — an intersection of machine intelligence, environmental repair, and speculative design. I’m interested in how built forms can behave like living systems: growing, adapting, and contributing to the planet rather than depleting it. Carbon Nexus is not just a building, but a vision for architecture as a self-sustaining, reactive agent, blurring the boundaries between biology, robotics, and post-industrial landscapes.
