You want visionary, buy an old cruise ship, run it up on land, build some scaffolding, and you’ve got cheap accommodation for 20 years! Repeat!
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The structure of this roof cap is exactly like the kind of telemetry tracker that NASA uses to identify dead pulsars in deep space. Cold riveted girders with cores of pure selenium… the architect was either a certified genius or an aesthetic wacko! The whole building is a huge super conductive antenna that was designed and built expressly for the purpose of pulling in and concentrating spiritual turbulence. You’re spending your freshman year in - spook central.
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I thought the Ark Ships were for the loads of useless bloody loonies, like phone sanitisers…
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So this is how Fallout Vault design starts…
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Or an Orgone Accumulator?
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“Unless the bedroom has a door that connects to the outdoors”…
Yeah, about that, this building is designed for 4500 residents.
Actual not making this up number of exits,
Two.
I think Munger came up with this design from a fever nightmare and just ran with it.
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Bravo
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Yes, well, of course, this is just the sort blinkered philistine pig ignorance I’ve come to expect from you non-creative garbage. You sit there on your loathsome, spotty behinds squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker’s cuss about the struggling artist!
You excrement! You lousy hypocritical whining toadies with your lousy colour TV sets and your Tony Jacklin golf clubs and your bleeding masonic handshakes! You wouldn’t let me join, would you, you blackballing bastards.
Well I wouldn’t become a freemason now if you went down on your lousy, stinking, purulent knees and begged me!
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Look, not having them make any changes to the design is a good thing. Otherwise they might subvert his vision, and he would have to destroy the building, then make an exceptionally lengthy speech about morality to make everyone realize he was the good guy all along.
I mean, doesn’t anyone know the classics, by which I mean unreadable books that the 1% really like because they congratulate them for being selfish?
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If it is as described, it won’t get built, whatever this spokesperson says.
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Unless the UC system has their own planning, zoning and permit system (and one that the county recognizes), along with inspectors, etc…they won’t get this past the planning stage…
Even county building aren’t exempt and are required to get plans and permits.
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I’m not 100% sure how it works for UC but in many cases local governments have no jurisdiction over state property especially state universities. They don’t need a county building permit unless the board of regents says that they need one. Here is a link from Berkeley on permitting: Permits and Plan Reviews | Facilities Services which doesn’t talk about county review at all.
I could be misinterpreting this but I know UC facilities don’t have to get approval from a bunch of other local and even state level agencies. They still have to follow state law and regulations and they have their own administration for approval and enforcement.
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The article doesn’t mention the cafeteria only serves Soylent.
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Architect Says Billionaire’s Dystopian Dorm Design Is a Dangerous Social and Psychological Experiment
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Mausoleum?
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How does Soylent taste?
Depends on the people.
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One of the halls of residence (as we call ‘dorms’ over here) at Exter Uni had particularly narrow corridors, about one meter (3’) wide. The rumour was that the architect hadn’t taken into account the width of the bricks. They did feel slightly prison like, but they were clean and in good repair, which put them above most people’s private accommodation.
The hall I was in had normal width corridors, but as it had been built in the 1970’s, each room had one (1) single plug outlet. This led to a lot of daisy-chained extension leads if you had a computer.
Oh, and it was just around the corner from a massive unexploded German bomb, but we didn’t know that at the time.
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An interview with Charlie Munger, starts at 9:00.
Go Outside Dorm Building
Rooms without a view. A California university is being criticized over plans for a gargantuan new dormitory that’s almost entirely windowless – so we’ll ask the 97-year-old billionaire behind the project to explain his vision.
Says about anyone that disagrees: “If they had more information, they would have more correct conclusions.” Ookay.
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