Honestly, the windowless aspect to it doesn’t bother me; I would gladly have traded a window for a single room when I was living in the dorms. Having one single-seat toilet for eight people, though? Nuh-uh.
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gave $200 million to the University of California Santa Barbara on one condition: that no one could change his blueprints
. “Christ, what an asshole!”
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However bad the current design is, at least it’s a step up from his original concept:
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I think Charles must just be trolling them, or he’s finally gone senile.
usbc?
so if the students don’t fit, you just turn them upside down and try again?
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I think that University of California buildings aren’t subject to plan checks from local governments. They have their own review boards, such as the one this guy just resigned from.
from the article:
UCSB spokesperson Andrea Estrada said while the university was grateful for McFadden’s service on the review committee, his comments on the Munger proposal and his resignation won’t stop it from being built. “The Munger Hall project and design is continuing to move forward as planned,” she said in a statement. “We are delighted to be moving forward with this transformational project.”
which i hope involves checking with zoning and insurance before proceeding further.
oto: if he said only not to change his blueprints, that seems fine. they can frame them for posterity and put them on display in a well designed and humane set of dorms using someone else’s completely different blueprints. no changes necessary if they aren’t used in any way
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- University President Smails
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But I don’t like it…
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University presidents lie like that.
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The guy is 97. Think they’ll take the money and slow walk the construction for a couple of years, then maybe build something functional?
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97-year-old narcissistic sociopath designs a nearly windowless mega-dormitory for 4500 students
Fixed the headline.
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No way in hell it passes fire code. it’s that simple.
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The prison is better - more light, more toilets.
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That IS what BlueBeam is for, right? 97 year old a-hole probably has no clue that exists. 
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But your odds of being able to find an open toilet stall are considerably higher in a shared communal bathroom even of the toilets-to-residents ratio is the same, since odds are low that more than a quarter of the residents on your floor will need to use the facilities at any given time. It also allows for some flexibility if a toilet gets clogged.
When you’re supposed to share one specific toilet among four people then you’re out of luck if even one of your dormmates needs to use it at the same time you do.
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Prison. It’s a prison
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Interior Brutalism
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Also, I could understand sacrificing the view if you were in some dense-packed city where the view wasn’t integral to the experience, but any building in Santa Barbara ought to be doing everything to maximize the view.
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