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January 24, 2006

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In college I studied "deconstruction" in its literary sense, but that didn't prepare me for this: taking apart, or "deconstructing," a Pan Abode cabin. It was simple. Built of notched interlocking cedar lumber with very few fasteners, to disassemble just pry and lift. The one trick is it's completely interconnected so you can only do one run at a time, working circumspectly from the top down. (In that sense it serves as an apt metaphor for an ecosystem--everything connected to and affecting everything else.) This meant a lot of scurrying around dragging ladders to all points of the floor plan, but once the walls got low enough it went lickety-split.

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