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Any resemblance to residential construction ends when one
perceives the form of the roof and the scale of the building.
The rectangular plan is approximately 50ft. x 125ft. with
a mezzanine occupying one end of the plan. Sized for the storage
of the rowboats, the building's large interior receives sufficient
natural light through clerestories that gain height towards
opposite corners, accomplished as the top chords of the roof
trusses rotate along an axis running the length of the building
(seen as the row of "V"'s in the image at left).
This simple structural maneuver gives the building a noticeable
silhouette from the Mississippi River below while also making
the interior spatially dynamic.
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