Students build woven pavilion to shade archaeologists in Peru's desert

A woven white canopy, bamboo cane walls and earthen floors form this workspace for archaeologists on digs in Pachacamac, Peru, which was built by architecture students from Zurich and Lima.The Room for Archaeologists and Kids is located an archaeological site 40 kilometres (25 miles) southeast of Lima. Called Pachacamac, it covers about 600 hectares of desert.The pavilion forms the culmination of a collaborative project that teamed students from Studio Tom Emerson &