This is absolutely psychotic, living in a windowless dorm room, especially if you're forced to isolate there due to muh covid, is outright psychological torture. The POS says in the article that a similar building he helped finance for the University of Michigan "works fine", and that's a lie, it's suicide inducing: https://archive.md/5Zzhi
I can only wonder what their cafeteria menu looks like, I'm assuming it's all fried roaches and Soylent.
Were students expected to isolate in their bedrooms, or as a "household" in the entire bedroom cluster? Because if it was the former, I'd blame the university's inhumane order and not the building.
I feel like this is illegal. I know most city codes have laws in place that bedrooms need to have a window. Mostly for safety. If that common area catches fire everyone in those dorm rooms are fucked.
Sad, but… I really wish I was joking, at this point. 😞
UCSB has been massively on the pr offensive, since this became public knowledge, though, and a building like this, on a smaller scale (for graduates), designed by the same psychopath, already exists at Ann Arbor… So… Honestly, even The Bee couldn’t outdo this one. SMH….
The building’s aren’t worth anything, so if they burn down, and the students die - oh well, they got their money anyway, and they can always build a new one!
No one alive to complain/sue the shit out of them (except parents, of course)…
Evil, but anyone who advocates for this sort of build IS literally evil, so… Arguably it’s not as much of a stretch as it might initially seem… Sadly. 😞
And so it's just that it was so novel, he's never seen that done, and he doesn't like it when it's different from what he's used to.
People obviously aren't complaining just because it's novel. Practically every large building is unique. Stop being retarded.
If you go on a Disney cruise ship and pay $20,000 a week for a fancy stateroom, it uses an artificial window instead of a real one.
He probably had to have a team of researchers to come up with this ridiculous one example. First: that room probably sucks and would not be good to live in for four years. Cruises are short. Second: you don't spend your time on cruises in your bedroom doing work, you spend it out of your room basically every waking moment, often not even on the ship. This comparison is trash.
When you look at them, the way they're curtained and so forth, you can't tell if they're artificial by looking at them, and they admit the exact spectrum of real sunlight.
Behind enough curtains, you can't actually tell the difference between an apple and a cat, but apples aren't cats.
You can turn a knob and change the sunlight to brighten it up or down. So if you're a romantic, you can tamp it down. If you want more bright light and so forth, you can turn the sunlight up just by twisting a knob.
In many respects, these things are actually better than real windows.
"Romantic" students apparently have never heard of curtains on windows in real life.
Obviously, it would be better if every student could have a penthouse with perfect views in all four directions. But we don't do that because we can't get enough students to live conveniently close together.
"Penthouse": False dichotomy, retard. The choice isn't a 30,000 square foot penthouse or a shoebox with no windows. Literally every student housing not designed by you manages to find a better middle ground. And what's with "conveniently close"? Exactly at what time does a student say, "Well, if only there were 200 people living within 100 feet, that would somehow make my life better than if there were 100"? How many strangers live within 100 feet of this retard's bed?
This building has been criticized by McFadden in his resignation letter as a "social and psychological experiment with an unknown impact in the lives and personal developments" of these young people.
Well, he's just pulling that out of the air. Buildings actually exist with no windows at all in Michigan and people are living in them fine.
LOL, "Buildings actually exist"... yeah, other buildings you built, asshole. Don't leave that out, that you're the only person psychotic enough to do this, and act like it's an independent confirmation that you're sane.
The Munger Graduate Residence Hall in Michigan has no windows. It works fine. But once you put the artificial window in, it's a huge improvement.
So the last time you fucked up, but this time you're changing one variable and now it will totally be fine. That is the actual definition of what an "experiment" is, retard. Remember the thing you denied one line ago?
What the students hate most of all — as I know; we had eight children — what they really hate is sharing a bedroom with an unrelated stranger.
How many of your children didn't have a window? Do you think maybe the fact they weren't complaining about not having windows is because they actually had windows?
every single student gets his own private sleeping area. That's unheard of in undergraduate
Actually that's extremely normal for schools not located in overpriced shitholes almost nobody can afford to actually live in.
This windowless thing is just a bunch of crazy suppositions by an ignorant man.
You're not an architect, though, are you?
Well, no, but I've been building buildings all my life, and I've hired a lot of the very eminent architects for over 70 years.
No comment necessary.
The best buildings, in my opinion, are always created when an intelligent owner is working with an intelligent architect. And that's what's happened here. This is not just my design. This is a design with a lot of inputs from others.
I guarantee the "no windows" thing was 100% him, not any of the actual architects involved, and he made it clear to everyone else that if they had a problem with it they'd be fired.
It was your idea to have the rooms with these fake windows, right?
Universities, particularly land grant ones (created by lands designated in the Morrill Acts of 1862) are often partially exempt from building codes. They have to meet federal standards, but they often can shrug off municipal rules.
If you go on a Disney cruise ship and pay $20,000 a week for a fancy stateroom, it uses an artificial window instead of a real one.
Artificial windows are only used for inside staterooms, which are the cheapest and least desirable rooms on a cruise ship. But even a top-tier suite doesn't cost $20,000 for a week, and inside rooms are all of a few hundred dollars. Comments like this one, or the penthouse comment:
devote the top floor of it — which is a penthouse floor normally given to rich people, you know, for condos
Show how absolutely out of touch this guy is with the average person.
I've been on one big cruise ship and wouldn't do it again. The only justifiable thing about it was being able to sleep outside on the balcony. If those big boats would rock more, I'd really get some sleep.
Live in pods and eat bugs. The future looks good.
I think it's great. Give these NPC students in California a taste of where their ideology leads.
This is absolutely psychotic, living in a windowless dorm room, especially if you're forced to isolate there due to muh covid, is outright psychological torture. The POS says in the article that a similar building he helped finance for the University of Michigan "works fine", and that's a lie, it's suicide inducing: https://archive.md/5Zzhi
I can only wonder what their cafeteria menu looks like, I'm assuming it's all fried roaches and Soylent.
Were students expected to isolate in their bedrooms, or as a "household" in the entire bedroom cluster? Because if it was the former, I'd blame the university's inhumane order and not the building.
Even the average prison cell has a window.
People designing prisons care more about the wellbeing of criminals than this guy cares about kids trying to learn something.
What a fucking ghoul.
Actually the windows are there for light in the case of a power outage, so guards can see wtf is happening.
97 year old lich wants to torment the youth?
What a surprise.
I feel like this is illegal. I know most city codes have laws in place that bedrooms need to have a window. Mostly for safety. If that common area catches fire everyone in those dorm rooms are fucked.
And in California, it IS a law. Size and distance from the floor are in the housing codes. How do they suppose they will get around this?
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Sad, but… I really wish I was joking, at this point. 😞
UCSB has been massively on the pr offensive, since this became public knowledge, though, and a building like this, on a smaller scale (for graduates), designed by the same psychopath, already exists at Ann Arbor… So… Honestly, even The Bee couldn’t outdo this one. SMH….
Devil’s advocate: that’s the plan.
The building’s aren’t worth anything, so if they burn down, and the students die - oh well, they got their money anyway, and they can always build a new one!
No one alive to complain/sue the shit out of them (except parents, of course)…
Evil, but anyone who advocates for this sort of build IS literally evil, so… Arguably it’s not as much of a stretch as it might initially seem… Sadly. 😞
People obviously aren't complaining just because it's novel. Practically every large building is unique. Stop being retarded.
He probably had to have a team of researchers to come up with this ridiculous one example. First: that room probably sucks and would not be good to live in for four years. Cruises are short. Second: you don't spend your time on cruises in your bedroom doing work, you spend it out of your room basically every waking moment, often not even on the ship. This comparison is trash.
Behind enough curtains, you can't actually tell the difference between an apple and a cat, but apples aren't cats.
"Romantic" students apparently have never heard of curtains on windows in real life.
"Penthouse": False dichotomy, retard. The choice isn't a 30,000 square foot penthouse or a shoebox with no windows. Literally every student housing not designed by you manages to find a better middle ground. And what's with "conveniently close"? Exactly at what time does a student say, "Well, if only there were 200 people living within 100 feet, that would somehow make my life better than if there were 100"? How many strangers live within 100 feet of this retard's bed?
LOL, "Buildings actually exist"... yeah, other buildings you built, asshole. Don't leave that out, that you're the only person psychotic enough to do this, and act like it's an independent confirmation that you're sane.
So the last time you fucked up, but this time you're changing one variable and now it will totally be fine. That is the actual definition of what an "experiment" is, retard. Remember the thing you denied one line ago?
How many of your children didn't have a window? Do you think maybe the fact they weren't complaining about not having windows is because they actually had windows?
Actually that's extremely normal for schools not located in overpriced shitholes almost nobody can afford to actually live in.
No comment necessary.
I guarantee the "no windows" thing was 100% him, not any of the actual architects involved, and he made it clear to everyone else that if they had a problem with it they'd be fired.
I can predict the future!
Isn’t that… (Very) Illegal..?
In Australia at least, while windowless rooms DO exist, they only exist by skirting building codes (e.g. the room was not built as a “bedroom”).
I can think of a few examples, including a couple I’ve stayed in, nonetheless…
But to have this across a WHOLE BUILDING, and to openly brag about it in the media… Surely that is breaking at least a couple of laws, no..??!
Welcome to Cali, where something's illegality really only depends on the size of your campaign contributions.
Well, that would also explain people living in buildings with no plumbing; that sort of thing would be illegal up here.
It would certainly be illegal in my country, but hell if I know about American building codes.
Universities, particularly land grant ones (created by lands designated in the Morrill Acts of 1862) are often partially exempt from building codes. They have to meet federal standards, but they often can shrug off municipal rules.
Even maximum security prison cells have a slit that can be seen out of.
Oh, that's just to prepare the little shits to get used to living in a space pod on Mars/the asteroid mine fields. :P
Artificial windows are only used for inside staterooms, which are the cheapest and least desirable rooms on a cruise ship. But even a top-tier suite doesn't cost $20,000 for a week, and inside rooms are all of a few hundred dollars. Comments like this one, or the penthouse comment:
Show how absolutely out of touch this guy is with the average person.
I've been on one big cruise ship and wouldn't do it again. The only justifiable thing about it was being able to sleep outside on the balcony. If those big boats would rock more, I'd really get some sleep.
I would consider going on a smaller boat.
I mean, on the bright side (heh), they'll be safer from heat and UV exposure from global climate warming change crisis.
early life check
The building with only Harry Potter closet bedrooms.
Actually I would have taken a room with no windows if it meant I had no roomates in college :P
Then again, that is still crazy lol. Luckily I only ever had one roomate through college and he never was even there :P