At times, my dorm unit has been unable to bathe for two or three weeks.
He was from my dorm unit.
Annette Kim, director of the University of Southern California's Spatial Analysis Lab, spent almost a year in China's capital from 2013 to 2014 studying the conditions for those living in the city's underground housing – a mixture of former bomb shelters and common basements repurposed to act as small dorm room units.
Then it began to grow dark outside and unbearable inside the cramped confines of the honor dorm, a unit reserved for inmates with good behavior records.
To be sure, there is some good that comes of the treatment program, an intense 500 hours of cognitive behavioral treatment over a nine-month period, during which participants are housed in a dorm-like unit set apart from the general population.
That means less emphasis for kitchens in the cottages, but plenty of sleeping and common areas in the two-bedroom, three bedroom and dorm-style four bedroom units.
According to Joseph Tanney, the architect and principal of Resolution: 4, which focuses now on single-family prefab but is getting numerous inquiries about multifamily these days for everything from dorms to micro-units, "The residential modular industry is salivating at the prospect of building more multifamily projects.
On a late winter afternoon, the south building resembles a dorm hall, with giggling tenants running from unit to unit, brushing against posters promoting art shows.
Diana Wei, who lives in Berkeley's Unit Three dorms, notes: "There is some primping you don't want to do in front of a guy.
John and thirty-two other patients lived in the same unit, in unlocked cells that resemble college dorm rooms, and shared two large common areas, where many of the men crocheted.
