Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm
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Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm
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Re: Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm
#2The University of Arizona has a dorm built into its stadium and the rooms to the seating side, which do not have windows despite being large, are no longer used. They were associated with higher suicide rates or something like that.
Re: Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm
#3Interesting collision of the idea with the covid era. During an outbreak you’d want students to have a private airspace to go to and the possibility of ventilation.
Update: from another comment, Munger designed a similar building in Michigan. It has great reviews!
But, one of the top ones was “great until pandemic”. Adding this to clarify that, contra other comments, I don’t necessarily think Munger was mistaken. But events have made the idea unfortunate.
https://www.veryapt.com/ApartmentReview-a7222-munger-graduat...
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#4"The idea was conceived by 97-year-old billionaire-investor turned amateur-architect Charles Munger, who donated $200 million toward the project with the condition that his blueprints be followed exactly."
Absolutely amazing
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#5Are there no laws against this in the U.S? In Norway there are building codes that prohibits bedrooms without a real window.
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#6That seems spectacularly awful--although there's probably been an overall trend in US college dorms (not that I've made a real study of it) towards small single rooms with common areas in general.
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#7[Laughs in Paris]
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#8"Munger Hall, in comparison, is a single block housing 4,500 students with two entrances"
Is it even possible to make it fire code compliant?
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#9> an 11-story, 1.68-million-square-foot structure that would house up to 4,500 students, 94 percent of whom would not have windows in their small, single-occupancy bedrooms.
> Munger maintains the small living quarters would coax residents out of their rooms and into larger common areas, where they could interact and collaborate.
That seems unlikely.
Re: Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm
#10The individual rooms look a lot like prison cells.