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| Steven Holl designed Simmons Hall, this MIT dormitory. | |||
| Holl reports the plan was motivated at least in part by a natural sponge, a shape having a "fractal distribution" of holes. | |||
| What is a fractal distribution of holes? The shape on the right is constructed in a fashion similar to the gasket: cut out one red square, three green squares, nine dark blue squares, 27 light blue squares, 81 pink squares, and so on. | |||
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| The sponge and Simmon Hall have similar distributions of holes: a few large, more middle-size, still more small, and so on. |