Bamboo Community Pavilion

Lio Lab: A South-North Design-Build Studio

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How can architectural educators develop international design-build collaborations that build bridges of community care across south-north boundaries? Bamboo Community Pavilion is the inaugural effort of Lio Lab, a traveling design-build studio organized annually by Peter Zuroweste in collaboration with students, staff, faculty, and UPN (Universidad Privada Del Norte, Lima, Peru) and ISU (Iowa State University, Ames, IA) and . Lio Lab’s mission is to work with communities of marginalized Peruvian neighborhoods to design and build projects with a positive impact on daily life. With the support of Espacios A+, a social responsibility non-profit specializing in improving Peruvian educational spaces, the 1,500sf shade structure was built over a 20-day period for Fe Y Alegria #34, a K-12 school in the Chorrillos neighborhood of Lima. Built of regionally sourced bamboo, local jute textiles, and cedar foundation components custom-lathed in Iowa, the project brings materials and people together across north-south boundaries through a shared process of collective worlding. ISU students: A. Muchori, A. Rosas, A. Boun, B. Schneider, B. Witt, B. Reed, B. Brcka, E. Dougherty, E. Sall, G. Saholt, H. Keast, J. Bainbridge, J. Yeong, K. Bolkcom, N. Ritland, P. Djunaedi, R. Trautman, T. Ngo, Z. Kaissi

Role: Co-Director, Lio Lab (Lima/Iowa Operation)

Client: Fe y Alegria #34

Location: Lima, Peru

Year: 2024

Status: Built (construction duration 10 days)

Type: Educational

Invited Group Exhibitions: Machines... and Ideas to Postpone the End of the World (curated by WAI), Gallery 181, Iowa State University, College of Design, Ames, IA, 2024

Peer-reviewed Conference Presentations: “Assemblages of Care: Lio Lab (A South-North Design-Build Studio),” AAG (American Association of Geographers) Annual Meeting, 2026 (forthcoming)

Press: “Episode 7: Architecture Connects Cultures with Peter Zuroweste,” interview, Student Innovation Center: 2/17/2025

“Cap #4: Lio Lab,” interview, LAPA (Laboratorio Arquitectónico de Producción Audiovisual): 12/27/2024

Publications: “Lio Lab: A South-North Design-Build Studio,” in Lauren Johnson, Heather Sauer (ed.), Inspire, Volume 15, Issue 2, 2025

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