Die Große Entlastungshalle

Public Bathhouse & Civic Relief Station

Die Große Entlastungshalle squats at the contested border between Kanalgrund and Wohlstandsgürtel like a sweating magistrate caught between two allegiances. Its vaulted roof is wrought from oxidized copper sheeting, green as envy, punctured at intervals by enormous iron exhaust chimneys that groan and sigh with the pressure of accumulated municipal need. The walls are thick Rhenish sandstone, darkened to the color of old broth by decades of steam and effluvium; the mortar between the blocks has ...

Located in Flatulence as Logos: The Pneumatic Language of the Disenfranchised.