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Warren Buffett's billionaire partner funds windowless dorm. An architect quit

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>"When this thing goes up and becomes an extreme success, which is absolutely inevitable, I think there will end up to be more buildings like it on the UCSB campus," Munger said.

Regardless of your opinion on the merits of the idea itself, this is a fairly staggering amount of hubris. I guess humility is a lot to ask from a century-old billionaire.

Patrick Collins tweet in response to this story: https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1454201794620375042?s=21

Look up the location of the UCSB campus. It is an ideal place for bedrooms with open windows.

That tweet is totally ignoring the fact that one dorm is in Michigan and the other dorm is in California on the beach!

It’s probably too late, but looking at the plans it seems like the residents will either have to avoid sex in their room for the duration or engage in more creative alternatives. If the boxes are not single gender, half of America will have vapours. Obviously, introverts go do other schools, or they mix the people in the box by workload?

Edit: and there’s one couch and a table - where the hell do people relax? In their box on the bed with a laptop? And any good stereo will incite riots.

TL:DR sheltered billionaire thinks that giving someone a shitty place to live will make them get out more.

Article doesn't say anything about ventilation in the interior either. The building sounds like a covid spreading hellhole.

> Article doesn't say anything about ventilation in the interior either.

It doesn't say anything about anything the resigning architect couldn't come up with a complaint about.

So, that's probably not a problem.

> Article doesn't say anything about ventilation in the interior either. The building sounds like a covid spreading hellhole.

Even aside from the spread of pathogens (not to mention molds, mildews, and fungus infestations), unless they are extremely careful about the materials that go into the rooms and their furnishings (ie. no cheap particle board or plywood bookshelves or desks allowed, not to mention scented air fresheners, candles, aerosols, perfumes, colognes, and cleaning products), the whole building is likely to come down with sick building syndrome:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_building_syndrome

Sounds like a barracks. Why not make sure it’s brutalist architecture and open bay, I’m sure everyone will love living there.

what a lunatic

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