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In 2022, an agriculture company unveiled China’s first vertical hog farm in the city of Ezhou: a twenty-six-story high-rise building, the latest experiment in intensified hog-raising. Inside the megafarm, which resembles an apartment block, the company expects to raise 25,000 pigs a year on each of the twenty-four breeding floors.
Ever since the harnessing of fire, humans have nurtured an independence from the sun that has been wielded as a foundational force in shaping architecture.
Materials are typically described as raw resources, fixed products, or inert objects to be sourced from a shelf in the store—as commodities more than prerequisites for or products of making.