I hadn't been following this too closely but now looking at the designs it looks more like an office building then a traditional dorm. I can see the logic and e

I hadn't been following this too closely but now looking at the designs it looks more like an office building then a traditional dorm. I can see the logic and efficiency in the design. A lot of dorms I've seen would end up with long interior hallways with bathrooms and shared spaces at the ends. While each room had a windows and an exterior wall the amenities would be far away. Some even only had common areas (kitchens etc) on the ground floor. Rooms with immediately shared common areas make them more accessible. Multiple shared areas makes for less overcrowding at busy times of the day. Kitchen areas close by rooms also means students aren't overheating their rooms with small refrigerators to keep their beer cold. The common rooms at the end of the hall on each floor also makes for more easily accessible non-room space to live in. So long as the dorm rooms themselves are kept single occupancy there's always a private study space available in addition to shared study spaces like in the library and wherever. If you wanted to get a similar number of rooms in the same areal footprint but give everyone a window it seems like you'd need a central courtyard. But then the building couldn't be more than a few stories tall or the lower floors would be in constant shade except for noon a few days a year. So you'd fit fewer students in the same plot. Central common spaces with dorms lining the exterior walls would also have lower density and the large common areas would still need a bunch of interior walls for sound abatement lest the floor have a constant din of noise. A gruff billionaire and soundbite headlines are the only thing driving this "story" in my opinion. The design looks sound and can pack a lot of people comfortably into the lot available for the building. I'm not an architect so I don't know if there's some big detail I'm missing.