WOODPUZZLE: two puzzle commissions
Contract manufacture
Games and leisure
Games, toys and leisure products
Cutting and fretwork, Engraving and marking
MDF, Plywood
The project
WOODPUZZLE brings together two commissions manufactured by Archicercle in 2020 and 2021. Both involve interlocking pieces, but each takes a different approach: a large-format MDF puzzle and a plywood puzzle with new ways of inserting the pieces and infilled engraved text.
The 2020 commission was a large puzzle made from laser-cut MDF. A small fitting allowance enables the pieces to be moved to different positions while retaining the overall structure. Interchangeability is part of the documented solution, alongside the familiar outline of a jigsaw piece.
For this first commission, manufacture combines cutting the outlines with the allowance needed for the pieces to fit together. The documentation covers only part of the puzzle, rather than its full extent, so the result is described through its pieces and how they relate to one another, without assigning overall dimensions.
The 2021 commission explores new ways of inserting the pieces. Made from 1 cm thick plywood, it has interlocking profiles that differ from those of the earlier puzzle. This is a separate commission with its own geometry and material, rather than a development stage of the 2020 puzzle.
Alongside its interlocking features, the second puzzle incorporates text through infilled engravings. This adds a graphic treatment to the surface of the pieces. Archicercle’s documented contribution to both commissions is manufacture; authorship of the original concept is not attributed to the studio.
2020 · Laser-cut MDF with a fitting allowance that makes the pieces interchangeable.
2021 · 1 cm plywood with infilled engraved text.
Processes and materials: fabrication services · available materials · studio machinery.
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