NEW MEDIA ARTS BUILDING
TOPPING OFF AND GOING GREEN
UC Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts recently celebrated the placement of the top-most beam of its New Media Arts Building and Gallery. Chancellor Michael Drake and Acting Dean Alan Terricciano officiated at the ceremonial beam signing and crane lift.
The five-story, 59,000-square-foot building will provide facilities for new types of technology-driven instruction, research, and performance space when it is completed in 2010. Included in the building are digital arts instruction labs, motion capture studio, visual design studio, rehearsal haslls, art gallery, mixed-media performance space, sound design studio lab and offices.
The new building is a sustainable design that meets defined energy efficient benchmarks and a rating system of the non-profit U. S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The "green design" includes sustainable site planning, safeguarding water and water efficiency, enery efficiency, conservation of materials and resources, and indoor environmental quality.
"The School has long been at the forefront of integrating the arts and technology. The new building will accommodate both the space and technological requirements for this growing focus, one that has already resulting in more collaborative, multi-disciplinary work preparing our graduates for careers in both the entertainment and high-tech industries," said Terricciano.