Form fakes function 2
Listening to Savile Broadcasting interviewing an idiot "architect" named Rogers who is famous for grotesquely ugly "functional" buildings with all the pipes and ducts on the outside.

Polistra has already exposed the fakery of the "functional", but not yet in this specific case.

Let's just ask a few questions.

What happens to a water pipe on the outside of a building? It freezes and breaks.
What happens to a sewer pipe on the outside of a building? It freezes and breaks.
What happens to a heating duct on the outside of a building? It loses heat.
What happens to a cooling duct on the outside of a building? It gains heat.
What happens to a steel beam on the outside of a building? It rusts.

There is a GOOD MOTHERFUCKING REASON why all those elements are normally inside a building.

It's because they are FUNCTIONAL when inside, and they are NON-FUNCTIONAL when outside.

Idiot Rogers, you are Satan.

You are creating intentional destruction and falsely representing it as "art", and you are making millions of dollars from fools who think your intentional chaos is Cool and Fashionable. You are Satan.

Still listening.... Aaarrggghhh. Now he's claiming that his destruction is necessary because it prevents "climate change". Boringly predictable for a commie, but completely wrong even FROM A GAIAN VIEWPOINT. A heating duct that loses heat is wasting energy. A cooling duct that gains heat is wasting energy. A water pipe that freezes then sprays water all over the street is wasting energy. His buildings are intrinsic energy-wasters by design, and he has the chutzpah to claim the opposite. Satan.

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Aside from the "climate change" crap, Satan claims his buildings are more flexible because they don't have an inner core to hold plumbing and heating stuff. We've already shown why the inner core is better, but let's examine the flexibility claim just for completeness.

Here's a highly schematic cross-section of a primitive old-fashioned non-Satanic office building with an inner core. Yup, sure enough the core occupies space, and you can't slide your bathrooms around at will. The plumbing pretty much has to stay where it is, and the heating outlets limit your ability to enclose any space you want. Have to heat and cool each space properly. Highly restrictive!


Now here's the Satan-style building. No inner core! Yes! Perfect flexibility ... Ooops. Still can't move the bathroom around, can you? And still have to account for those heating outlets. But now that the plumbing and heating can be frozen up or torn off by wind or punctured by a rock, you won't have to use the building very often anyway. It will be closed for repairs much of the time. Advantage Satan!
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