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

[Judi Lynn]

Students build woven pavilion to shade archaeologists in Peru's desert
Bridget Cogley | 24 February 2019

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.

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When viewed from overhead, the project only stands out with its white roof. Nearby are tiered buildings from centuries past, including perimeter walls of Acllawasi, where a selected group of Incan women inhabited.

"Its powerful underlying hill topography was extended upwards with adobe and stone temples and palaces to form what must have been an unbelievably impressive place – the largest hill later becoming the Temple of the Sun in the Incan era," reads the study.

"The sanctuary of Pachacamac is a most extraordinary constructed landscape... and one of the biggest and most important of such city-complexes in what is today Peru," it continues. "It was once an isolated citadel: a strategic point located where the River Lurin meets the ocean, from which the entire surrounding territory could be controlled."

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