Standing 15 feet tall, the leaning poles of the Kaw Pavilion at Burroughs Creek Park slant toward the center of the structure as they circle its canopy made of fabric sails. The cloth is cut to the likeness of the stretched animal hides used by the original indigenous tribes of Kansas. Recycled road signs layer the two sides of the pavilion in the pattern of water, prairie grass and fire.
Assistant architecture professor Keith Van de Riet taught the third-year architecture studio that designed a