Mexican architect Alberto Kalach has built a 22-metre-tall chimney for children to make ceramics on the site of the Casa Wabi artist retreat designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando.
The architect, who runs TAX Architects with partner Adolfo Romero in Mexico City, designed the chimney as a ceramic kiln for Casa Wabi retreat and arts charity foundation in Puerto Escondido, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.

Japanese architect Ando completed the centre for Mexican contemporary artist Bosco Sodi's Casa Wabi Foundation in 2014.
Sodi tasked Kalach to design the kiln about a year ago to accompany a pottery studio by Portuguese architect �lvaro Siza. Together, they are used to teach local children how to make pottery with red clay that is common to the region.
Kalach used locally sourced brick to complement the materiality of Siza's brickwork studio, as well as the activities inside.
"After working the pottery, they can burn it in the chimney," Kalach told Dezeen "I wanted to make a reference to where the bricks are burned, so the material and design speak for itself."

Kalach, who also designed the landscape on the Casa Wabi property, made the chimney very tall in order to contrast with the property's flat surroundings. No trees are closeby, allowing the chimney to further stand out.

"I thought the chimney was a nice idea because the landscape is very flat," Kalach said. "I thought it was nice to have a distance reference."
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