“You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike, with barely room for two to walk abreast and only the faint glow of torches to light the way.”
“Oh, we’re starting off in the dungeon already?”
“What? No. This is the inn.”
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“A hollow voice over the loudspeaker system says ‘PLUGH’.”
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wait wait wait. Pets? and Surfboards? Maybe I’ve just never lived in CA and everyone there has a pet closet and surfboard storage.
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Looking at all the windows in the renders sure gives a false sense of how airy this building will be.
Here’s a housing floor plan that shows it really is a gigantic warehouse to park students in, and a giant and regressive step backwards in terms of housing design.
512 students per floor, in windowless individual 10’ x 7’ cells.
8 students per “bedroom cluster” x 8 bedroom clusters per “house” x 8 houses per floor = 512 students.
Each 8 person “bedroom cluster” has a large stoveless kitchen and a giant 8 person dining table - leaving no room for any communal lounge, easy chairs or entertainment. For that, you need to head out to the 64 person “house” kitchen, dining area and “game room” - no idea how that’s gonna work. Way too many dining tables, all apparently assuming the students will be organizing regularly scheduled communal cooking on a massive scale as part of the gigantic 1.5 billion dollar social experiment Munger is mostly not paying for.
The entire building has to be evacuated if there is a power failure because of lack of light and ventilation.
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The floggings will continue until morale improves.
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Could it not be RGB and then synced to the students gaming PC with all its RGB lights?
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Well this all looks like hell.
One thing that particularly jumps out at me in his flawed logic: he genuinely seems to think that single rooms for students can only be provided in this manner. I can only assume that everyone who stayed in University accommodation in the UK in, say, the last forty years or so, would disagree. Plenty of other places too, including in the USA, I’m sure.
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I wonder if anyone has tried putting a camera outside with a screen showing the view? Not like a real window, of course, but way cheaper. I believe aircraft have considered doing it, as windows are very expensive from a structural perspective.
The Dillionaire Death Dorm of Doom.
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Now I’m thinking this is a prototype for the “humane” debtors’ prisons that I’m sure Munger thinks will be a growth industry in the future. Heck, most of this pilot project’s inmates would already be in debt.
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I mean does that ACTUALLY happen… seems far fetched to me! /s
@anon73430903 that happened at a building on the GSU campus that went about not too long ago… it was a new science building, and lots of folks kept getting sick after they moved into the building.
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One other thing I was thinking of is how bad the dorm is gonna smell after a few semesters. Beer, piss, and old farts (bathrooms NEED ventilation). Also, the humidity issue is gonna be bad so, “HELLO BLACK MOLD!” Yikes.
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It’s funny that he gets called an “amateur architect.” Like, I can draw designs for a building, I’ve even worked at design/build firms, but that doesn’t make me an “amateur architect.”
If I patch up my own owies am I an “amateur doctor?”
If he wasn’t a billionaire would he be called this in the media?
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I don’t know what it’s like in the US but in Ireland to call yourself an architect you have to pass the exams, so an academic and then a professional education. And here’s the crucial bit: what being an architect is, the crucial difference between you and an amateur is not that you know your stuff and have been accredited, it’s that you can sign an architect’s contract. Sign an RIAI contract and you are the person who gets sued if the building is fundamentally flawed by design.
So yes, amateur, or dilletante if you prefer, is absolutely appropriate for Charlie boy here who will carry none of the can for this multiple lawsuit magnet.
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Architecture is one of the professions requiring licensure in the US. Pretty similar process to obtain that license here.
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One in a million. It’ll blow over by the time this is constructed and it will nEVer HApPen AgaiN
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I am not sure about this specific instance as shown on this plan, but I have seen two different college campuses in two very different U.S. states, and each campus allows for therapy / emotional support dogs. Depending on the dog and the rules, it might be that such a service animal could need a place to go in some cases, at some times, when it is not possible for the dog to accompany its human.
Just a thought.
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I can’t be the only one expecting this to devolve into an indoor apocalypse with radioactive rodents running around?
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Americans, man…
Lemme guess, it does have microwaves?
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