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High Occupancy Low Income Housing

This is a high occupancy apartment set up in an experimental way that is based off the proposed and then abandoned student housing apartment named Munger Hall for the University of California in Santa Barbara, USA.

The real life design was to split up each floor into multiple "Houses". Each house would have a common area on one end. Each house would them be split up into multiple "Bedroom Clusters" that have a small common room for studying and a kitchen surrounded by 8 small bedrooms. The end result is each of the 4,500 students gets a room the size of a prison cell with no windows. The ground floor would have mechanical rooms, study rooms, theatre, laundry room, small room for pets, security, staff offices... and even a room for 570 surfboards. On the top floor would be a gaming room, classroom, reading rooms, gastro pub, fitness centre, cafe, market all surrounding some trees(?) and other greenery in the middle. A consulting architect on the review committee had quit in protest of the design. the design was abandoned.

Please do an image search for "Munger Hall floor plan"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munger_Hall


I took this idea and thought instead of just university students, what if it was also for low income housing for single people, homeless, and even some elderly that don't need special care. However this layout makes it hard for couples to live together in a small room, let alone families with kids. I cant add the other things into the building like a restaurant, grocery store, or other leisure activities, so there will be a flood of people leaving this building like there is an never ending evacuation.

With my building, there are 10 floors. Each floor is divided into 4 houses. Each house is divided into 10 bedroom clusters. Each bedroom cluster is divided into 8 bedrooms. 10 x 4 x 10 x 8 = 3200 people. Housing quality is lower but at least you can house a lot of people.