Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship 2022 Winner, RIBA World Architecture Travel Prize
2022 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship Winner
3 Aug 2022

Hana Sapherson, winner of the 2022 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship
Winner of RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship 2022
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is pleased to announce Hana Sapherson, MA Architecture student from the Royal College of Art, UK as the 2022 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship recipient for her project ?Zero: direct air capture infrastructure and the future of zero carbon societies.?
The annual scholarship offers £7,000 to fund research by an architecture student who demonstrates original thinking on issues relating to the sustainable survival of cities and towns. Hana?s project will trace a two-month net-zero carbon journey by boat and train across the world to capture a situated snapshot of the international energy transition and ambition to reach net-zero by 2050. Hana will primarily focus on Direct Air Capture sites ? proposed and in development ? to scale carbon dioxide removal for the largest companies and economies across the world and their impact on society. Sites will include Drax Power Station (Yorkshire, UK) Carbfix/Climeworks (Hellisheidi, Iceland) Carbon Removal (Øygarden, Norway) and six further sites in Switzerland, Canada and the USA.
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