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by lawlessone 2881 days ago
Those floor plans creep me out and i don't know why.
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They give the impression of the building being alive. And therefore your presence is potentially a threat that it will deal with and you'll be trapped for an eternity in an endless maze of reconfiguring hallways and dead ends.
Well I wasn't feeling this way but now I am... Seriously though I prefer the more organic feel. I don't really like square hallways and I wouldn't mind being in a rounder room. though it would need to take into the actual requirements of the rooms. A shop class needs both a lot of space and square enough walls/floor plan that they can fit in equipment without a ton of wasted space.
Probably because they definitely don't feel like anything created by a human mind.

I'd love to see these visualized in first-person, so I could walk through them and look around.

It's Kafkaesque i think
Only in the sense that it looks like an insect hive, I think.
Weird, I had the opposite feeling, it looked comfortable and organic and natural to me. Maybe it depends on how regularly you get out into and appreciate nature.
The final chapters of Ender's Game take place in rooms like these, and the protagonist is creeped out in the same, inexplicable way.