Jenifer Haider Chowdhury: This time I tried something different. Sometimes we do architecture for fantasy movies or for fictional characters. I did that type of experiment in this series. So, we all know about the famous five times Oscar-winning children’s fantasy movie “HUGO”. In this film, there was a very talented little boy Hugo Cabret who loved to invent different types of interesting automatons.
Automaton means a machine or control mechanism or robot designed to follow automatically a predetermined sequence of operations or respond to encoded instructions. Those machines or robots which were invented and built by Hugo, had beautiful stunning types of mechanical architecture. Those didn’t need to be covered by an outer shell.
Those mechanisms had a stunning aesthetical composition that was so eye catchy. Those had some kind of magical sparks in their designs. So I thought if there was a Cinderella who lived in an alien world, then how Hugo designed her castle in both mechanical and magical ways. I tried to blend the essence of Disney’s dreamy architectural style with the liveliness of the extraterrestrial mechanism created by Hugo. So here the results are.
