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An exciting, deceptively simple form came to life. Then he realizes that the slender steel columns aren’t in
Schneider imagines a child, in a class in the courtyard, a grid, but rather the separation of each pair diminishes
her mind perhaps wandering a bit. The chains grab her the closer one gets to the drainage chains. The children
eye. That perhaps causes the realization that the two share this discovery with each other. “I would have
drainage gutters must slope downward to the chains— been one of those children,” Schneider acknowledged,
yet the outer edges of the roof are horizontal. Perhaps musing that the subtleties of the pavilion’s form might
she then points this out to a friend, and he looks closely be training future architects.
and notes the subtle trapezoidal shape of the roof panels.
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