uc santa barbara’s nightmare dorm from charlie munger

Billionaire Charlie Munger offered at least 200 million dollars to UC Santa Barbara to build his vision of what a dorm should be. Nicknamed "prison" dorm and dormzilla, it would cost 1.5 billion to build. Maximized to the brim, his 11 story dorm fits over 4600 students, but at the expense of windowless bedrooms. When an architect on the university's design committee resigned in protect, Munger's "prison" dorm went viral and got hated on by the whole internet. But maybe Charlie was onto something and not just some sick twisted billionaire trapping students in dark rooms for fun. He seems like a pretty honest guy to me from his interview he did on why he wants to build the dorm.

Chapters:
00:00 - Charlie's deal with UC Santa Barbara
00:25 - Dorm design
02:07 - Backlash
03:14 - Charlie's response
04:43 - Windowless Michigan dorm
05:38 - Dorm's status today

[wargriffin]

You'd think the Costco would go on the FIRST floor. You know...for logistical reasons. 😄

[nredacted]

wait.... you arent a massive creator? HOW?? this video was amazing. just subscribed!!!

[lucasgiumarra]

This is a tough one for me but I think I would trade in sharing a room with a window for having my room without a window. Although one of my fondest memories of my dorm experience at UCSD was lowering myself down from my second story window to run away from campus security who were busting our party lolll

[Njrocks]

NGL looks like a giant fire hazard single corridor yeah watch 500+ people all have to file down a single hallway in a fire not like they'll be trapped or trample people.

[daganrose]

Why does this only have 200 views? Well produced vid mate keep it up 🤜

[AlexLopez-loeh]

Really nice video keep up the great work!!!

[kli]

This is actually very interesting. However Michigan really needed the artificial sunlight since they will not get it naturally for 6 months a year.

[jfwfreo]

One thing I will say is that they are kind of optimistic by placing a "gastro pub" on the plans given the laws in California and the age of most of the students who go to UCSB... (or at least one set of plans I saw showed such a thing)

[tclinn]

Mr. Charlie Munger is a good man. Rest In Peace Charlie!

[GMAN]

UCSB students don't have to worry about Munger Hall - the $200 million was cancelled. Now the students can go protest the lack of housing. LOL

[ixcdekv]

Would have loved to live in a place like this. I had boarded up my window anyways due to my messed up sleep schedule.