Constructing a new city amid the global environmental crisis, could be seen as a reckless decision. Indonesia is now in the process of relocating its capital city, built from scratch on top of an industrial forest. Yet, there are opportunities to make amend of the development and transforming the way we build buildings by designing carbon-negative buildings.

Using locally sourced timber from the former forest and developing transparent wood to complement glass will significantly reduce the carbon footprint of the construction. Symbolized by the use of transparent woods that highlights potential of profound change within any entity, the transformation toward transparency is ideally extended to government practices, starting with the construction of legislative buildings in the new capital city.

The studio utilizes AI, with platforms such as Midjourney and DALL-E, to generate feedback and inspiration during design iterations. Renderings and sections are generated using PromeAI, with prompt “Large public building, vernacular-modernism” and additional manual collages.