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The Factory Habitat reinvents the typology of the pier, factory, and park by interweaving the production spaces of silk with the coastline habitats. The landscaped structure creates a thickened city edge that resists the degradation of the harbor, and challenges the dichotomy between nature and city, and between efficiency and natural cycles.