Overview
The Bauhaus brief reduced every piece to pure turned geometry: cylinders, cones, and spheres, with the identity of each piece reading from silhouette alone. That makes the design problem and the manufacturing problem the same problem, since every aesthetic decision is a lathe operation.
Execution
Working in a team of four, we designed the set in SolidWorks, programmed toolpaths in MasterCAM, and turned the pieces on a Haas TL-1 CNC lathe in aluminum and brass. Consistency was the hard part: sixteen pawns that must be visually identical is a repeatability exercise in workholding, tool wear, and process control.
