VI. In Turn. A turned chess set

VI.
In Turn
A turned chess set

In Turn is a project for a commissioned chess set. It focuses on a transformation of the architectural object through the transformation of the lathe into a digital toolpath. In Turn starts with the archetypal profile of the Staunton Chess pieces, which originally acquired their appearance by synthesizing clean neoclassical profiles and column-like, tripartite division with ideas of mass production of objects by means of ‘turning’ material on a lathe.

In digital space, the profile of the chess set is rotated in half of a straight angle. Employing quarter turns, the project aims distances the notion of the profile from that of a figure. This results in a composition of ‘partial revolutions’, as the proportions of the whole are illustrated as fractions of a turn. Delineated profiles acquire a thematic quality, and they manifest in one of two ways: as the lines and curves indicating the cross-sections of the chess pieces, and as the typical imaginary curves of geometrical unfolding.

VI.
in turn
A turned
ChesS
Set

PROFILES

In Turn reimagines the Staunton Chess Set, reminiscent of clean neoclassical profiles and the column-like, tripartite division of Greece and ancient Rome.

COMPOSITION
In Turn employs 90-degree turns, which then hinge around the three spatial axes, resulting in a more complex composition of partial or discrete revolutions.