Overview
The Bauhaus brief was a constraint, not decoration: every piece reduced to pure turned geometry — cylinders, cones, spheres — where the identity of each piece has to read 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.
