The ship wasn't designed to be a gothic gateway to hell. It was a starship on its maiden voyage to Proxima Centauri that got lost and reappeared near Neptune. The starship designers on Earth thought lots of dangling chains was really important to have on a deep space mission to another star system.
When you have hand valves located high, you can build a platform and stairs for operators to use them, or you can cheap out and put a chain actuator in it to turn it from below. It's also common to have several valves together in what's called a manifold.
Then, if you're really cheap, you don't really maintain the valves that don't carry dangerous or high temperature chemicals, and let them leak. Who gives a shit if it's leaking water, it's not dangerous.
Then, when a big heavy xenomorph uses the valves to climb up, the valves start leaking hard.
The set designer not only knew industrial environments, they also reinforced the message that W-Y didn't care at all about its employees.
Still a better design than the Event Horizon.
This comment can only be made by someone who missed the point of Event Horizon - the gothic ship that opened a gateway to hell.
The ship wasn't designed to be a gothic gateway to hell. It was a starship on its maiden voyage to Proxima Centauri that got lost and reappeared near Neptune. The starship designers on Earth thought lots of dangling chains was really important to have on a deep space mission to another star system.
Didn't they admit it was their take on a warp breach from warhammer 40k? In which case it would be a perfect night lords ship.
Also highly likely that the ship was corrupted by the warp...