Old Dominion University is located in Norfolk, Virginia one of the cities making up the Hampton Roads region of Southeastern Virginia; a modern port city nestled where the Chesapeake Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean. Old Dominion University is transitioning from a commuter campus to a residential campus and now offers over 4600 students accommodations on the Norfolk campus.
I noticed they did not show the bathrooms or closet space/drawers. IMHO if you have to raise the bed to create space to work/live, the room is "probably" too small. Climbing up into a raised bed might seem like a good idea/space saver at first, but that will get old really fast and I suspect most students will opt for having the bed near the floor after a few days, if not sooner. If you had a bunk bed you would normally use the lower bunk for sleeping/sitting, and use the top bunk for storage. A good idea would have been to place a large storage shelf where the top bunk would normally be. One other good idea would probably be to have a chair with better lumbar support and arm rails, like what the desk receptionist was using about 1/3 thru the video. It looks great. I hope Owens house works out, and does not become a "lesson's learned" project on modern living/learning environments. I have seen a lot of campus housing and my son will be living there in the Fall and these are just my thoughts from what I have seen in the video. It is probably best to let the students living there comment on their experience. Go Monarchs!
