Re:San Francisco braces for commercial real estate crash
by radicaldreamer on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @03:06AM
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This building is a recipe for mental illness. It’s like someone saw Kowloon Walled City and was like, let’s do that (or Chungking Mansions).
People do live there (some pretty happily) but this does not seem like a good idea for UCSB freshmen.
Last November, HN briefly discussed [1] Munger Hall at the University of California Santa Barbara, which will be just such a building. Housing 4,500 students, only 32 of 512 single rooms on each floor will have physical windows. The remaining 95% will have virtual windows that simulate sunlight.
The HN linked article [2] includes a floor plan and a rendering of an 8-room cluster with shared kitchen, dining room, and bathrooms. UC Santa Barbara has more information on the project [3].
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29096773
[2] https://www.dezeen.com/2021/11/02/architect-resigns-grotesqu...
[3] https://sam.ucsb.edu/campus-planning-design/current-projects...