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The Game of Orders project is an attempt to approach architectural genealogy in a playful, yet educative way with the use of computational tools. The project embraces the variety and richness of cultural goods and data in order to propose a design method that manipulate and resynthesize it.

The project consists of a set of 32 unique chess pieces that are a result of geometrical morphing of well known chess figures with iconic architectural columns, among which there are: Caryatid, Atlas, baroque spiral and V shape column, Ioinic, Doric of 5 Vitruvio Orders, Mies van der Rohe cross column, Gaudi shape study ( from the columns of Sagrada Familia), Frank Lloyd Wright from Johnson Wax Headquarters, Oscar Niemeyer, Toyo Ito, The Ironic Column ( Robert Venturi).
The merging process is based on computation method of evaluation of the curve between two corresponding vertices of two input geometries. The evaluation points are calculated according to the distance to the control figures, which can be: one point, multiple points, single or multiple curves, surface or combination of those. Strength and dynamics or morphing depends on the numeric mapping function applied ( power, sine, bezier curve evaluation). Such variety of tools and parameters allow to create no-end amount of intermediate geometries and multiple scenarios to emerge and as such, can be mass customized or locally fabricated on the desktop 3d printer, when available for public.
The whole set is to be 3d printed black and white plastic depending on the modern/classic column category and chess family.

Pieces are ambiguous, yet not deprived of their identifying features that reveals what they are originally composed of and what they compose as a whole set- the rich collection of interplaying references as a result of synthesis of geometries and their properties, disciplines and concepts behind them.

Ongoing project.

2016

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