Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm

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[Rio]

Not good. My dorm room at UCSB looked over the ocean and could see Santa Cruz Island out there.

[EEGator]

It’s Cali, you can just crap outside...

[Roccus]

Whenever I’d work in a windowless phone company building it seemed like the workers therein were rather odd. We used to call it the “Silo Effect”

[Karliner]

That’s not architecture. That’s cramped prison quarters.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Howard Roark laughed.

[IYAS9YAS]

Interesting. Under current household/apartment building code, bedrooms must have two routes for egress (most cases a window) in case of fire blocking the door. You would think college dorms would fall under this code, too.

[rolling_stone]

ah more social engineering

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Sounds perfect for COVID. /S

[samadams2000]

I was in Santa Cruz dorm with 2nd story view of the ocean just over the Chancelors house.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Sounds like Agenda 21 housing."

Bingo, but our grandkids will love it! That's what the corporate media are already telling us. /s

[Rio]

FT!

[sauropod]

Beehive.

[Michael.SF.]

I’ve seen minimum security prisons with better amenities

[Lisbon1940]

No offshore oil rigs in Santa Cruz.

[cgbg]

The amazing weather means you can open windows almost year round—if you have windows!

This is unhealthy and cruel.

[Kevmo]

I graduated from UCSB, and my wife worked in the Budget & Planning office as an architect. Incredible number of bureaucracy tales. So this kind of Munger Hall approach is no surprise.

[nickcarraway]

I think it would increase the number to a science.

[DarrellZero]

“Munger maintains the small living quarters would coax residents out of their rooms and into larger common areas, where they could interact and collaborate.”

So, medium security prison then?

[Dr. Sivana]

Might cut down on suicides during finals.

Quite the opposite. Woodward Court at U of Chicago had some basement dorm rooms with a high suicide rate. Of course, a Santa Barbara winter is not the same as a Chicago winter.

I can tell you that a small room would not get me to go out and socialize or collaborate with people I have no desire to socialize or collaborate with. In my old dorm I would often sing "We Are the World" loud and off-key on purpose as I walked to my dorm room so that people would keep their distance. "We're saving our own lives ..."

[Paladin2]

Just plug into the Matrix, comrade....