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 ? a design and research studio in the architecture faculty at Swiss university ETH Zurich ? and Taller 5 at Lima's Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
Architects Guillaume Othenin-Girard and Vincent Juillerat led 45 students on the design, producing the outdoor structure in three weeks during June 2018.
The pavilion provides shelter for archaeologists making their first examinations of artefacts that emerge from digs. It is designed to be open so that work can be undertaken in view of passing visitors and children from a nearby school.
Four linear outdoor walkways, made mostly of wood, form the rectangular shape of the structure with a sandy courtyard in the middle. It measures 37 metres by 16.3 metres in total, and rises 3.6 metres high.

The roof is made from white polyester textile, which is woven in between upper and lower planes of wooden struts. This canopy provides layers of shade from the punishing Andean sun, while retaining views to the sky and landscape beyond.
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