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introduction |
The Architecture Department at UC Berkeley is one of the largest academic
units on campus. The curriculum allows every student to enroll in courses
from the diverse educational offerings of the world’s finest comprehensive
public research institutions. This includes courses from colleges such
as Letters and Sciences, Engineering, Law, Education, Business, Public
Health. In addition many of the lower division, upper division and graduate
courses of the Architecture Department are open to students from disciplines
outside the College creating an instructional environment which integrates
diverse educational and career perspectives. The program is structured
around the studio environment as the mechanism for applying the theoretical
and ideological breath presented by the faculty and the University at
large. Students are encourage to access the rich intellectual context
of the University, fostering an understanding of the importance of bringing
multi-disciplinary knowledge and skill to resolving architecture problems.
The results are an understanding of the importance of the relationship
of theory to practice and practice to theory which carryover into a
commitment to life-long learning. The work represented by the Architecture
Department at the University of California at Berkeley in this years
2003 Beyond Media Festival from the [arc]HIVE studio is clearly an outstanding
example of the implementation of our educational mission and pedagogic
approach. It continues to move our program to the forefront of research
and instruction in the arena of digital media in the 21st Century. W. Mike Martin, Chair |
 Installation at the Stazione Leopolda, Florence (photo by: Omar Cotza) |
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| [arc]HIVE,
diff () and Thesis Instructor: Anthony Burke http://www.arch.ced.berkeley.edu/courses/arch201_sp03 |
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[arc]HIVE. Project by Mike Eggers The fascination with emergent systems as progenitors for design, have at their core a desire for infinite duration. The endlessness of the evolving system offers a strategy for ongoing contextualization through responsiveness to continual environmental and programmatic pressures, while thinly disguising the promise of perpetuity of a type previously unimagined. Through accepting the instability of form and the variability of program through time, the need for completion and closure are conceptually abandoned. Insinuating an entirely novel relationship between the architect and their product, the architectural project has now become endless. [arc]HIVE explores this premise through various structures of memory as paradigms for this condition of continual emergence. Recent strategies in information storage to overcome data extinction, (data migration, emulation and encapsulation), were appropriated and misused for their promise of sustained spatial development, through systemic operations on a continual or periodically defined basis. These strategies were used to develop proposals for an archive intended to store, exhibit and allow research on works of a continually expanding collection of digital art, at Furnace Creek in Death Valley, California. Through the juxtaposition of the digital content and the physical site, an intentionally unsettling antagonism was effectively maintained, postponing programmatic or climatic stability in favor of continual evaluation and response. diff () was devised as a projected installation as a result of the procedures developed in the [arc]HIVE studio, and first installed at the University of California, Berkeley and subsequently at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Using an algorithm specifically developed for this project, live video frames are compared and their differences isolated, revealing only that which has changed in time, hence registering movement in space. These traces are then projected (fed back) into the space itself, creating a self referential but open system. By using this process with multiple capture and projection points the installation explores a dynamically sculpted relationship between space, surface, media and motion in real time. Thesis. This project was completed by masters student R. David Scheer 3, as a thesis project with the supervision of several faculty at UC Berkeley. Similar to [arc]HIVE the core of the project is the development of a system of environmental interactions over time, that can be digitally modeled and tested. The intent of the system was one of eventual reintegration of the LA river and a correspondingly redefined environmental/urban zone into the operational flux of the greater LA basin. [arc]HIVE is a Graduate Design Studio held in the Spring semester 2003. diff () is an installation (May/June 2003). Thesis projects are from the Spring semester 2003. Thanks to the Department of Architecture and the Center for Environmental Design Research (CEDR) for their support, and all those involved in the [arc]HIVE project Spring 2003. Students: Aaron Poser, Alison Sant, Mike Eggers, John Ristevski, R. David Scheer 3, Otto Stonerov. |
Anthony Burke is an assistant professor in Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, leading design studio and seminar courses with a particular interest in the theoretical and formal impact of new media on the conceptualization and visualization of architecture. Professor Burke graduated from the Graduate school of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University with a Post Professional Masters in Advanced Architectural Design in 2000. Prior to that he gained a Bachelor of Architecture with honors from the University of New South Wales, Sydney in 1996. He has held teaching positions at several institutions including the University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney, and Columbia University. | |||||
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