Warren Buffet’s Business Partner Bankrolls Windowless Dorm”
” . . . 94% of the dorm’s single occupancy rooms are in the interior of the building, and have no windows.”
The controversy continues, as an “Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm” — Criticizes Munger Hall as ‘Social and Psychological Experiment’ with Unknown Consequences”
“In his October 25 resignation letter to UCSB Campus Architect Julie Hendricks, Dennis McFadden ― a well-respected Southern California architect with 15 years on the committee ― goes scorched earth on the radical new building concept, which calls for 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.”
Below are some images from the blueprints:
“Yes, Build the Windowless Dorm in My Backyard”
“It took Munger—who is worth more than $2 billion, owing to several decades spent as Warren Buffett’s right-hand man—a year and a half to come up with this configuration, he has said. The secret is that the dorm has compact, windowless rooms. Esteemed architecture man Paul Goldberger described the design as “a grotesque, sick joke — a jail masquerading as a dormitory.” Also, apparently there is one shared toilet per eight bedrooms? Yikes.”
