“These environments are sealed; there are no exterior windows in 94% of the single-occupancy bedrooms. Each floor would house 512 students in a rectangle 20% larger than the entire field area of Dodger Stadium.” (via latimesopinion)
The $1.5-billion project would house more than 4,500 students, but 94% of the rooms would have no windows.For students assigned to bedrooms in the center of the building, the experience would be comparable to living at second base and being forced to walk to the center field wall to find out if it’s cloudy outside. Or, another analogy: living in a janitor’s closet buried in the center of an Ikea warehouse, with the closest window somewhere back at the entrance.
The California Building Standards Code, though, allows building owners to apply for “Alternate Method of Compliance,” which in this case means using mechanical ventilation and electric lighting as a substitute for windows. The real innovation of Munger Hall is that it exploits this provision in the building code — as some would exploit a loophole in tax law — and applies it at an unprecedented size and density. The result is a packing of windowless living units, some up to 200 feet — two-thirds the length of a football field — from a view to the outside world.
Munger Hall is an answer to the housing shortage and growth pressures currently facing the university. It is also an alien and destructive presence out of tune and out of scale with the rest of the campus. Worse, the building is a misguided experiment that will affect the health and safety of multiple generations of undergraduates who will be forced to negotiate the design’s gross miscalculations and unintended consequences — long after the story of how and why it came to be is forgotten.
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