The dormitory’s nine identical residential floors would be organized into eight “houses” with eight “suites” (shown here) with eight bedrooms.
Cripes its a damn prison where everyone gets solitary.
The dormitory’s nine identical residential floors would be organized into eight “houses” with eight “suites” (shown here) with eight bedrooms.
Go to your windowless cell and like it.
Sounds like Agenda 21 housing.
Did he get the idea from the inside cabins on a cruise ship?
Architecture in general has seen a world of hurt since the dawn of the 21st Century, at least. Boxy, drab, cheap, and unoriginal must be the goal.
> Munger maintains the small living quarters would coax residents out of their rooms and into larger common areas, where they could interact and collaborate. <
More social engineering by the elite. You wanna coax residents into the common areas? Put out some donuts.
UCSB, on the coast just west of Santa Barbara, Calif. has one of the most scenic locations of any university in the world—yet they are not going to provide windows.
I would point out that the number of day light hours a kid is in their dorm room is rather small. Each kid is getting their own room. And the interior space is much larger. We got windows. But they meant the room was way to hot in summer and way to cold in winter. It also meant that we only had narrow hallways to gather in with one common room that could not handle all of us.
Students will either like them or hate them. Most of the dorm rooms my children had were dreadful. Often they were over stuffed little rooms with nothing but cinder block walls and no circulating air. Just call these dorms Japanese Modern and everyone will think they are cool.
Not good. My dorm room at UCSB looked over the ocean and could see Santa Cruz Island out there.
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”
That’s not architecture. That’s cramped prison quarters.
Howard Roark laughed.
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.
ah more social engineering
Sounds perfect for COVID. /S
I’ve seen minimum security prisons with better amenities
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.
“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?