She said the project was in line with how the university generally develops its housing projects, вЂњwith the goal of providing affordable, on-campus housing that minimizes energy consumption.вЂќД®strada did not address McFaddenвЂ™s specific concerns. In a statement, Andrea Estrada, a spokesperson for the university, said the design and the project were moving forward вЂњas planned.вЂќД®strada said the plan was a collaboration between the university, Munger and architects at VTBS Architects, and that it would reduce the number of students who would have to live off campus. On its website, the university said that Munger Hall would create вЂњbetter and more affordableвЂќ housing вЂњwith flourish and elegance.вЂќ 5 meeting of the committee over the design, which the university has embraced as it contends with a housing shortage so severe that students have had to be placed in hotels. вЂњThe basic concept of Munger Hall as a place for students to live is unsupportable from my perspective as an architect, a parent and a human being.вЂќ вЂњIn the nearly 15 years I served as a consulting architect to the DRC, no project was brought before the committee that is larger, more transformational and potentially more destructive to the campus as a place than Munger Hall,вЂќ he wrote in the letter. He said he was вЂњdisturbedвЂќ by a design that would cram the students into a 1.7-million-square-foot, 11-story building and make the vast majority of them live in small rooms without windows, вЂњwholly dependent on artificial light and mechanical ventilation.вЂќ

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