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How can a school simultaneously insert itself and spill out into the existing urban fabric? While the skin and bones of the existing Snyder building are surgically and systematically cut, a gantry crane is embedded to slide modules all over Manhattan. These re-configured shipping containers fulfill a variety of community needs, from public bathrooms placed in nearby parks, outdoor public libraries, to science labs mounted on a barge creating a floating summer school on the East River.