I thought I recall reading someplace that the angles and the walls constructed from them created some kind of auditory dampening/scrambling effect so that sound

I thought I recall reading someplace that the angles and the walls constructed from them created some kind of auditory dampening/scrambling effect so that sounds did not emanate out from the structure in any intelligible way. That may have all been speculation of sorts, I can't recall the source I got that impression from :(