Movie-Tron:Legacy

TRON: Legacy (2010)

Directed by Joseph Kosinki

The movie Tron Legacy is the movie that inspiring me a lot about the futuristic idea of architecture. This movie is talk about a son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father's corrupted creation and a unique ally who was born inside the digital world.

This is movie basically are well beyond the possibility of logical explanation. Since the Tron universe exists entirely within chips, I wondering where the physical body of the character been? And how his young son get into it. How the people who live in the chips program live. Because is a sci-fi movie, so I don’t bother much about their living life style in the chip program. But what inspiring a lot about in this movie is the idea of futuristic architecture. Futuristic architecture has been beautifully visualized in the movie like Star wars, Inception, oblivion and other sci-fi movie. The way the director imagined the world inside the chips with the futuristic concepts.

I like the way that the director design a safehouse for the main character. The safehouse is a combination of a spacious home and bunker which hidden in the outland to escape from prying eyes of Clu’s subordinates. Minimalist interior featured by the neo Victorian furniture creating a look that blends the old with new in a provocative way. Most of the lighting features are from the floor and brighten up the interior with white glow.

Beside that, the space design for Game Arena which the character is forced to participate in gladiatorial games is also very interesting. It include Lightcycle and also Disc Arena. The participant fighting inside a series of floating transparent modules and surrounded by the audience. The environment of the arena combat area can be constantly reshaped to accommodate a wide range of different game environments. Everything from rotating Disc Arena modules suspended high above the ground to a lightcycle grid with spiral tracks and other ramped structures.

Watching movie is also a way to explore the imagination of a designer. The idea of the futuristic architecture one day might become real. The world inside the chip is something like created by Digital architecture, which is an architecture technique to craft the creative digital model. The imaginary world in the chip could be design to become a real-world projects by using software. By digitally designing real world project, architect like Zaha hadid are able to fabricate and construct building with more flowing and organic form. The fluidity of the architecture visually simplifies everything. Elements within each design fit together to form a seamless continuum. This allows architect to build much complexity into each project without cluttering the visual scene.