Windowless dorm?

[jp1]

Apparently UC Santa Barbara is on a path to building what to me sounds absolutely horrible, a dorm where 94% of the rooms have no windows. The purpose being to encourage people to spend more time in the public spaces. I read that as ‘make the rooms unpleasant enough so that people won’t want to be in them.’ $200 million for the project is being donated by Charles Munger, who has put strings on the donation that absolutely nothing about the design change. At least he’s enough of a believer in the project that he’s willing to have his name on the building.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/uc-sant...-hall-rcna4401

[Tybee]

I am trying to get my head around how that room would have felt when I went off to college. I was a lot more adaptable in those days.

[Tradd]

Ugh

[iris lilies]

We have a window-less bathroom, and I don't even like to put pets in there for any time longer than an hour.

[LDAHL]

I once tried to interest my wife in building an underground house. She vigorously refused. She insisted on natural light and thought it would be too quiet, “like a tomb”. I lost that one.

[nswef]

I would imagine deep depression for many students.

[JaneV2.0]

Given a choice between windowless solitude and socially-engineered herding, I'd learn to embrace the room with artificial light and ventilation, I suppose. This reminds me of the roundly-scorned group projects being foisted on students these days. What do these educators have against individuals, anyway?

[catherine]

I once tried to interest my wife in building an underground house. She vigorously refused. She insisted on natural light and thought it would be too quiet, “like a tomb”. I lost that one.

Reminds me of that old movie--a great concept, OK movie--Blast from the Past--where Sissy Spacek and Christopher Walken raised Brandon Fraser in a 1960s-era bomb shelter.

As far as Munger's design: I think it's dreadful. "Prison" sounds like an apt description.

[LDAHL]

Reminds me of that old movie--a great concept, OK movie--Blast from the Past--where Sissy Spacek and Christopher Walken raised Brandon Fraser in a 1960s-era bomb shelter.

As far as Munger's design: I think it's dreadful. "Prison" sounds like an apt description.

Every once in a while, you read about someone renovating a bomb shelter as a residency. Some of them look pretty nice to me.

I still think there are a lot of pluses to an underground or earth berm house; but it was one of those arguments that would only be resolved through divorce.

Back at the dear old U, I lived in a drafty cinder block monstrosity thrown together after the war. The pampered students of today would consider it a human rights violation, but it served its purpose.

[Tybee]

Reminds me of that old movie--a great concept, OK movie--Blast from the Past--where Sissy Spacek and Christopher Walken raised Brandon Fraser in a 1960s-era bomb shelter.

As far as Munger's design: I think it's dreadful. "Prison" sounds like an apt description.

I loved that movie, because they kept pulling out all these stock certificates and he had money to spend in the present day.