That's by way of a reddit post about the dorm that I stumbled across trying to find the answer to whether there were fire code concerns with the project.
Hard to understand how the new dorm meets these standards, though the article is from 2000, and the question was about a private home:
To begin with, the Unified Building Code states that every bedroom is required to have at least one window opening to the exterior of the dwelling, not an adjoining room. The purpose of this requirement is threefold:
A bedroom must have a direct source of outside light, provided by a window that is at least 10% as large as the floor area of the room.
* A bedroom must have a direct source of outside ventilation, consisting of an opening window at least 5% as large as the floor area.
* Every bedroom must have a means of fire escape, directly to the exterior of the building, by way of a door or window that opens. Fire escapes to adjoining rooms are not acceptable. In the advent of a fire, that second room could conceivably be filled with smoke or engulfed in flames at the moment when escape becomes imperative. The only permitted means of escape is to the outside.*
That's by way of a reddit post about the dorm that I stumbled across trying to find the answer to whether there were fire code concerns with the project.