This should be interesting. I don’t object to his idea of encouraging students to hang out together, but I am wondering how this will play out in reality. I suspect a very substantial number of students will object to windowless dorm rooms.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/29/business/ucsb-munger-hall/index.html
Already discussed here, with link to document with floorplans:
Charlie Munger offered a $200 million donation to help build new housing, but the catch is that it needs to be to his specifications. The proposed Munger Hall dorm is “an 11-story, 1.68-million-square-foot structure that would house up to 4,500 students, 94 percent of whom would not have windows in their small, single-occupancy bedrooms.”
Floor plans (see linked page) show that each floor would have eight “houses”, each with eight suites with eight single rooms and two bathrooms per suite. Each suite would have a small common area (about a third of the suite), and each “house” of eight suites would have a larger common area with windows.
More information and floor plans can be found at https://www.dfss.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/docs/dcs/DRC%20Meeting%20Packet%2010.05.21.pdf starting at page 42. The first floor shown on page 57 includes various retail, study rooms, utilities, and surfboard storage. The detailed “house” floor plan on page 60 shows 10’*7’ single rooms. The sui…
The bedrooms do not have windows, though common areas do.
Thanks, I didn’t see a thread about this, but I didn’t look in the UCSB forum. Closing.