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c.a.f.a atelier 央艺

Kiln and Corridor

Index
010
Status
Completed
Year
2023
Discipline
Architecture
Ceramics

A wood-fired kiln and the sixty metres of corridor that lead to it. The slope of the corridor is set by the flue and nothing else, so anyone walking in is walking the path of the smoke.

Design
He Yiming
Firing
A workshop in Jingdezhen
Mentor
Shen Zhibai
The mouth of the wood-fired kiln at the end of the corridor.
The corridor in long section, rising with the flue.
The outer wall of the kiln during a firing.
Test tiles after unloading, arranged by their position in the kiln.
The corridor entrance, where the slope begins.
The flue in section — the thing that set the height of the whole corridor.
The kiln mouth on the third night of firing.