Whew - we were floored just reading the description of all the work done on customizing this dorm room at MIT. The room of a computer engineering student, it's complete with a loft, light wall, Eames lounge, two work stations, custom ceiling panels, metal wall paneling, recessed halogen lights, hardwood flooring. There's lots more but we had to come up for air:
It's all finished off with a giant ear on the door (of course!). Not only was this thoroughly impressive project pulled off within the semester, it was accomplished within the first couple of weeks of school! Read much more about the ingenious work put into this dorm room over at the blog of the man behind it all: Zack Anderson.
Images: Zack Anderson
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Dorm rooms at MIT are some of the most depressing spaces on the planet. Bravo, Mr.Anderson. You've changed my mind on this.
I think I'm in love.
This reminds me of the movie Real Genius.
I sure hope he's going to be living in this room longer than one academic years. That's a lot of effort.
Very cool!
Neat except for the creepy ear on the door...haha
and after the first 3 weeks of school the computer engineering student had no time to continue to work on their dorm room.
While I am amazed and admiring of people who do so much with a dorm room, it also seems a bit "too much" to me. I lived in dorm rooms throughout most my undergraduate and grad school life and I wanted minimal posessions with me, and only what made me more comfortable while I worked on my schoolwork. Dorms are temporary, and sometimes I switched rooms mid year, and every time I had to move it was a chore. Extreme dorm decorating just felt like a waste of my valuable time, especially since I always had a job and social life, so the dorm was only for sleeping and studying. Depends on the person, I suppose.
East Campus?
MIT students do CRAZY things to their dorm rooms, like floating living rooms or incredible light displays. I don't see where the manage to find the time, but I think they keep those rooms for awhile.
they find the time by not sleeping :)
and yes, in many cases, they're allowed to keep their rooms multiple years if they want.
I sure hope he's going to be living in this room longer than one academic years.
He's a computer engineer. He'll be living in this room, or one almost exactly like it, until forced into normality by a future wife. That is the way of their kind.
Genius use of the second Eames chair! That alone wins my adoration.
This looks like either East Campus or Random Hall. Yes, they do have the time because they don't actually sleep. Those two dorms have more laxed rules on what you can do to your room, including building any structural changes. They also live in the same room for 2-3 years. This could also be in a frat, where they can build whatever they want too. This won't be permitted in regular west campus dorms even at MIT.
how cool! props