The ISU students collaborated with the Peruvian students from the beginning of the spring semester until about a week before the trip. The students researched micro libraries around the world for inspiration for about a month before they started developing designs for the micro library in Peru. "We would propose a design; they would give us feedback and then they would take that proposal to the community organization who would give them feedback. And then they would come back to us," [Kellen] Pacheco said. "We went through that process about two or three times."
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"As a profession, architecture operates in so many ways, I think that this is one of the ways we have to be humbled as students of architecture, because not everything goes according to plan, especially in these kinds of environments."
