The detailed design of UC Santa Barbara building is being carried out by VTBS Architects, which is the architect of record on the project. Munger, who conceived the building, is the vice chairman of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate and has no formal architecture training. Virtual windows to have circadian-rhythm control system "How far UCSB has fallen since the days when it had architects like Charles Moore." "No, design isn’t up to billionaire donors," he added.
Pulitzer Prize-winning American architecture critic Paul Goldberger also slated the Munger Hall project online, tweeting: "If this report is true, this design is a grotesque, sick joke - a jail masquerading as a dormitory." How far UCSB has fallen since the days when it had architects like Charles Moore. No, design isn’t up to billionaire donors. If this report is true, this design is a grotesque, sick joke - a jail masquerading as a dormitory. McFadden also pointed out that the current largest single dormitory in the world, Bancroft Hall at the US Naval Academy, houses only 4,000 students and is spread over multiple wings with more than 25 entrances. "Yet in the nearly 15 years I served as a consulting architect to the DRC, no project was brought before the committee that is larger, more transformational, and potentially more destructive to the campus as a place than Munger Hall." "The design was described as 100 per cent complete, approval was not requested, no vote was taken, and no further submittals are intended or required," he said. McFadden said he left the committee as there was no possibility of making changes to the dormitory's design, according to the Santa Barbara Independent. No other project "potentially more destructive to the campus" "The Munger Hall design ignores this evidence and seems to take the position that it doesn’t matter."
"An ample body of documented evidence shows that interior environments with access to natural light, air, and views to nature improve both the physical and mental wellbeing of occupants," he wrote. In his resignation letter, McFadden called the design "unsupportable from my perspective as an architect, a parent, and a human being".
A typical residential floor plan at Munger Hall The top floor would feature a one-acre courtyard with "social pods" and seating areas. The single-occupancy bedrooms would instead feature virtual windows that would simulate sunlight.Įach of the nine residential floors in the dormitory would have eight "houses", with eight separate "suites" organised around a communal kitchen and living area. While the gigantic Munger Hall would have fourteen entrances and exits, 94 per cent of students living in it would reportedly be in windowless rooms.
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