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The problem is that labor and material cost continues to go up. As an architect yourself, I suspect you're not working for minimum wage. Given the thoughtful co

The problem is that labor and material cost continues to go up. As an architect yourself, I suspect you're not working for minimum wage. Given the thoughtful comment you posted originally, you seem like someone who puts in good work. People who put in good work deserve raises. I dont know how to solve for rising costs. I do know that if I cannot afford something nice, I have to settle for something subpar. I'm not sure how else to deal with the issue.

Kaibeezy 5y ago
There is an infinity of solutions for any building program. Eliminating windows solves a couple of problems, but creates many others. Throughout human history, windowless cells have been reserved for very few situations, such as extreme punishment, or a cheap cabin on a Disney cruise (arguably overlapping cases).
- aikinai 5y ago
  I really don’t understand how everyone’s freaking out about the window and alluding to prison and punishment but cramming two or three strangers into one tiny, old room is perfectly fine as the status quo.
  - Kaibeezy 5y ago
    Imagine... you can solve for both!
krisoft 5y ago
Architects needs to be paid, something something, therefore we build bedrooms without windows. Sounds a bit like the underpants gnome reasoning to me. I would understand if someone crunched the numbers and after a long and detailed reasoning they would have come up with this solution as the only one which can potentially work. But as far as I understand that is not what happened here. The donor has aspirations to be an architecture too and stipulated that this is the only way his money can be spent. No deviations from the plan are acceptable.