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 as not only a material system mediated through representation but is itself a mediation, producing a constant circulation of readings between technical “real” objects and the cultural practices surrounding the making of these objects. In Turn starts with the archetypal imagery present in 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. Employing quarter turns, the project aims to distance the notion of profile from that of a figure. This results in a more complicated 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.