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The RIBA Journal Eye Line Competition rewards technical skill and imaginative flair in architectural drawing and rendering. Held annually, the free-to-enter competition is open to students and practitioners, gathering the most accomplished work from around the world. Student work is eligible if it was produced within the last three years while in architectural education.

Now in its eleventh year, the competition鈥檚 top Student prize went to Bartlett student Chia-Yi Chou, for her Architecture MArch (ARB/RIBA Part 2) Year 4 project 鈥楩oreston Keynes: Carbon Capture in a Progressive New Town鈥�. A man-made, cuboid structure captures carbon dioxide from the ambient air, more effectively than a natural forest due to its dramatically larger and more efficient surface area. Her project听also won the Design Realisation: Experimental Innovation Prize at last year鈥檚 Bartlett Summer Show. The project takes inspiration from fractal geometry, and calls to mind the infinite possibilities of hyperobjects.听Chia-Yi used complex folding drawing as an experiment to explore collage and scale, and to unfold a journey through the infrastructure, with panels on each surface of the cube opening out to reveal many more three-dimensional layers.

鈥楩oreston Keynes: Carbon Capture in a Progressive New Town鈥�

Chia-Yi Chou, Architecture March (ARB/RIBA Part 2), PG11, Y4

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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.

Commenting on Chia-Yi鈥檚 winning entry, the judges said:

鈥�I love this as an idea of how you can make a drawing, big in both thinking and presentation. It鈥檚 pulling everything out from two-dimensionality into three in a way that is totally engaging.鈥�

- Rana Begum听

鈥�It鈥檚 extremely skilful in terms of its drafting and use of colour, and whether it is [a sculpture] or not, it conveys the impression of a three dimensional model.鈥�

- Alan Power

鈥�She鈥檚 doing absolutely everything that we want her to do. Experimenting on a climate future while referencing past aesthetics; attempting a DIY 3D approach layered onto beautiful drawings. For me it blows the other entries out of the park.鈥�

- Jes Fernie

Chia-Yi Chou graduated this year from听Architecture MArch (ARB/RIBA Part 2) and was tutored in unit PG11 by Laura Allen and Mark Smout. After听graduating, she also won the Year 5 Portfolio Prize and The Bartlett School of Architecture Medal, MArch. You can see her more recent work at this year鈥檚 , open听now until Saturday 08 July.

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Images:听鈥楩oreston Keynes: Carbon Capture in a Progressive New Town鈥� by Chia-Yi Chou, Architecture March, PG11, Y4