The Simmons Hall dormitory on the MIT campus by Steven Holl is very unique in how it connects to itself, as well as its surroundings. The structures multitudes of windows are on a grid, but they are not on the same grid as the floor planes. Although the building seems extremely regimented and structured from the outside, and in some respects it is, on the inside the building is actually quite irregular. Windows do not always meet up evenly with the floors. The building doesn’t just meet the sky; it invites it and brings it into the building through multiple tunnels. The way that the building has been shifted and carved away doesn’t just meet it’s surroundings but actually includes them in the overall structure.
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