VII.
Other Turns
A secret object
A prequel to the In Turn chess set, Other Turns explores nine alternatives of the King piece. Each version explores different composition of turns hinging around the X, Y and Z axes. The project builds a material logic out of the conceptual and geometrical basis of the Chess Set: profiles turned on 90-degree increments. Built out of laminated Red Western Cedar planks, each turn is manufactured via flip CNC milling.
Subtractive manufacturing coupled with the layered nature of the wood stock further amplifies the notion of profiles via a myriad of seams that delimit regions of wood grain. Seams therefore recreate offsets of either the profiles of the chess pieces or the sweeping curves of geometrical unfolding. These take the form of cross-section or topographical curves –depending on how the axial composition of the wood lamination is registered against the circular tool paths.
vii.
OtheR
Turns
a secret
Object
The original formal and conceptual struggle existing between frontality and axial rotation that fostered the Chess Set studies reaches other levels of speculation when realized via juxtaposition of textured materiality.
GRAIN
Wood’s sidedness (face-grain, edge-grain and end-grain) create a patchwork of textures that contrasts with the circular continuity of each piece.
OTHER TURNS
PROJECT TYPE
Product Design
EXHIBITED
“Objects” Exhibition, UT Austin
Art Palm Springs, with Jai & Jai
PUBLISHED
Sessions Vol. 2, SCI-Arc Press
CENTER 21: The Secret Life of
Buildings
PHOTOGRAPHY
Spinagu
TEAM
Maxi Spina
Jia Yi Gu
Stephan Bica
Wang-Hsuan Kung
FABRICATION ASSISTANCE
SCI-ARC Shop
Brandon Youndt
Rodney Rojas