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In the past few years, the city of Austin, Texas, has approved the construction of\u00a0thousands of windowless rooms<\/a>\u00a0in new apartment buildings next to The University of Texas at Austin.<\/p>\n

Most of these rooms are being leased to UT students, resulting in a\u00a0deterioration of their well-being<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In April 2024, the Austin City Council finally\u00a0voted to ban the construction of windowless bedrooms<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As a\u00a0professor at UT\u2019s School of Architecture<\/a>, I see this ban as a belated but welcomed development. For 25 years, I have given my students an assignment called \u201cMy Window,\u201d where I ask them to draw a section of the window in their bedroom. In 2021, some students started to tell me that they did not have a window in their room.<\/p>\n

I was shocked because, as a practicing architect, I had always assumed that windowless bedrooms were illegal. Some students started to share with me photographs of their rooms and what dozens of students have described as their terrible experiences living in them.<\/p>\n

Adverse effects on mental health<\/strong><\/h4>\n

A common complaint is \u201cmessed up circadian cycles\u201d and the development of \u201cdepression and fatigue.\u201d They try to avoid their rooms as much as possible. One student told me about experiencing \u201cunbearable loneliness and claustrophobia caused by the four solid walls.\u201d Another one lamented waking up \u201cwith anxiety every morning<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

As soon as I learned that windowless bedrooms were being built in Austin, I started advocating to ban them. I have asked the City Council to act, via\u00a0letters<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0in op-eds<\/a>. I have educated myself on the issue and shared my views with architects, professors and students in multiple venues.<\/p>\n

Students have mobilized, too. In the spring of 2023, they ran\u00a0a survey<\/a>\u00a0to compare students\u2019 experiences living in rooms with and without windows. Students who lived in rooms without windows scored lower in all the categories on a\u00a0well-known scale that measures well-being<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a September 2023 [letter to Austin\u2019s City Council], 762 students demanded a ban on windowless rooms. \u201cOur city\u2019s negligence to defend its citizens is being weaponized by developers as a means of profit,\u201d they wrote. They also pointed out that windowless rooms are illegal in cities such as New York City and Madrid.<\/p>\n

Not legal elsewhere<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Indeed, in New York City \u2013 as in major cities around the world \u2013 windowless bedrooms are illegal. A percentage of the room\u2019s floor area, set in each city\u2019s building code, determines the minimum window size. In New York City, every bedroom must have a window area\u00a0at least 10%<\/a>\u00a0the size of the room\u2019s floor area; in Madrid, 12%; and in Mexico City, 15%.<\/p>\n

In Austin, the number has been 0% until the recent ban.<\/p>\n

Why? There is a simple reason: Austin, like most cities in the U.S., follows the International Building Code, and this code has a glaring loophole. Its\u00a0lighting section<\/a>\u00a0states: \u201cEvery space intended for human occupancy shall be provided with natural light by means of exterior glazed openings in accordance with Section 1204.2 or shall be provided with artificial light in accordance with Section 1204.3.\u201d<\/p>\n

The code then goes into great detail on the specific requirements for each situation. But the word \u201cor\u201d leaves the door open for some developers to interpret the code to mean that natural light is optional.<\/p>\n

To protect themselves against those developers, cities such as Chicago and Washington, D.C., have closed the loophole by simply replacing \u201cor\u201d with \u201cand\u201d in their adopted codes. Austin is finally doing precisely that. The recently approved\u00a0code revision will ban windowless<\/a>\u00a0bedrooms when it takes effect on May 20, 2024.<\/p>\n

Putting profits first<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Unfortunately, developers have already exploited the loophole and built thousands of windowless bedrooms that soon will no longer be legal to build but will be legal to continue to be leased.<\/p>\n

Windowless rooms\u00a0have not resulted in lower rents<\/a>\u00a0for students in Austin. Moreover, during my two-year campaign to ban windowless rooms, no developer has spoken in their favor in front of the Austin City Council.<\/p>\n

They have been quietly building them for as long as they have been able to because student housing is\u00a0very profitable<\/a>, and more so when windowless rooms are allowed.<\/p>\n

How come? Because a bulky building, with interior rooms away from the facade, can capture more interior space with a smaller ratio of exterior walls, which are more expensive to build than interior walls.<\/p>\n

A vulnerable population<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Namratha Thrikutam, a UT architecture student, sums up the predicament of her peers living in windowless rooms: \u201cStudents are a population that developers know they can take advantage of.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have as much money. We don\u2019t have as much standing in the world. We don\u2019t have as much experience about things that we\u2019ve been through, so it\u2019s very easy to take advantage of us,\u201d she\u00a0told the Daily Texan<\/a>, UT Austin\u2019s official newspaper.<\/p>\n

Lured by the proximity to campus, students in windowless rooms\u00a0try to cope<\/a>\u00a0with abundant room decoration, circadian rhythm LED lighting, mental therapy or medication.<\/p>\n

For example, an\u00a0exchange student from Spain<\/a>\u00a0who had unknowingly leased a windowless room contacted me asking for help. She told me that, being illegal in her hometown of Barcelona, it never crossed her mind that the room she had leased before arriving in Austin could be windowless.<\/p>\n

She described her anxiety and deteriorating mental health after just a few days in her unit. When I wrote on her behalf to her building manager requesting a room with a window, they responded: \u201cWe do not promise windows in any of our rooms. Like other buildings in the Austin area, windows are not promised.\u201d Shockingly, their leases do not disclose the absence of windows either.<\/p>\n

Much like immigrants in New York City\u2019s\u00a0tenement buildings in the 1850s<\/a>, UT students have been left to fend for themselves. Austin has failed them by approving the construction of thousands of windowless units.<\/p>\n

UT, a\u00a0top-tier public university<\/a>, has failed them by\u00a0not providing enough university housing<\/a>\u00a0and by remaining silent during the campaign to ban windowless rooms. The university\u2019s position is based on the fact that West Campus \u201cfalls under the city of Austin\u2019s jurisdiction,\u201d according to a statement obtained by The Conversation.<\/p>\n

My position is: Yes, but these are your students asking for help.<\/p>\n

And architects have failed students by willingly designing windowless rooms. In doing so, architects have ignored one of the\u00a0core guidelines<\/a>\u00a0of the American Institute of Architects: \u201cto consider the physical, mental, and emotional effects a building has on its occupants.\u201d<\/p>\n

Changes sought<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The experiences of students living in windowless rooms in Austin should serve as a cautionary tale for authorities who control building codes. If windowless rooms are already illegal in your city, keep it that way. If they are not, ban them as soon as possible. If not, students and other vulnerable populations such as immigrants, seniors and low-income people would always be a potential target for developers.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, and to protect these populations, I am working with other concerned architects across the U.S. in closing the loophole at the source, by directly modifying the International Building Code instead of assuming that each city will close it by amending their codes locally, as Austin just did.<\/p>\n

It is a slow and bureaucratic process, but, ultimately, the message should be clear: Having natural light in buildings should be a human right, not a developer\u2019s choice.<\/p>\n

Author Bio:<\/strong> Juan Mir\u00f3 is Professor, Dick Clark Chair in Architecture, School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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