Neglected sites of industrial ordinary often sit as reminders of the historic economic vulnerability of rural communities heavily dependent on material refinement. Beehive kilns are remnants of a past dependent on the firing of greenware bricks for use in structural construction and road pavers. These overlooked artifacts, Currently in a state of decay, hold a history of hyper localization in which small rural operations would produce bricks from local clay to be fired and redistributed from these sites to be used all over the country, often marked with the name of the maker.
Through exhausting forms of architectural analysis Of existing beehive kilns from all over the country we begin to understand how these seemingly repetitive structures have incredible variation in craft at the same time that they meet the practical demands of a convection Kiln system. Through reanimating and shuffling these kilns these subtle inconsistencies are directly compared and begin to form a new space with new intentions that obscure the ordinary nature of the former, inviting closer inspection to an otherwise forgotten history.