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You'd be surprised. The architecture and design podcast 99% Invisible did an episode on this recently. Give it a listen if you're interested in learning more. H

You'd be surprised. The architecture and design podcast 99% Invisible did an episode on this recently. Give it a listen if you're interested in learning more. Here are some details from memory. Internal space without windows can't legally be made into residential. Plumbing and ventilation requirements are vastly different (in offices these go to larger centralized areas, in residential they go to smaller distributed locations). There are very few buildings that can be easily converted to apartments, and the costs of conversion for those that can be is expensive. Meaning what few conversations are possible are limited to luxury units. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/office-space/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/office-space/

adolph 3y ago
> Internal space without windows can't legally be made into residential. Residential: Bah; Dormitory: Yay! In brief: [Charlie Munger—billionaire vice chairman of Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway] has offered UCSB more than $200 million to build this dorm to his designs, which will cost an estimated $1.2 billion. The structure is a giant block in which almost none of the rooms have windows. https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/buildings/the-munger-dorm-is-bad-but-why_o https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/buildings/the-munge... Also, the Munger interview here is pretty funny: https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15378-exclusive-interview-with-billionaire-charlie-munger-on-controversial-ucsb-dorm https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15378-exclusive...