{
  "kind": "building",
  "version": 2,
  "id": "03-economic",
  "role": "economic",
  "name": "Second Mold Exchange",
  "function": "A cooperative reclamation exchange remolds discarded plastic into replacement building parts and sells them through sheltered curved trade counters.",
  "shape_and_silhouette": "A low horseshoe of three swollen workshop pods wraps around a circular sorting drum, with a broad open forecourt and two squat capsule-shaped feed hoppers rising at the rear.",
  "visual_description": "Buttery cream shells with thick curled rims enclose persimmon loading mouths, avocado ribbed service bands and inset mosaics of recycled polymer flakes, joined by smooth orange pipe loops.",
  "production_notes": "A manufacturing-shore enterprise stands freestanding on flat ground and expresses its molding process through rounded polymer vessels and shared covered trade counters.",
  "departure": "Bulbous chambers and deep flexible loading collars replace the former rectangular shed, sawtooth roofs and exposed gusset frame.",
  "shared_traits": [
    "Thick rounded molded lips and recessed acrylic openings",
    "Visible recycled-flake inserts and precise welded patches",
    "Oversized plastic pipe collars and flexible bellows"
  ],
  "constraints": [
    "No sawtooth roof, pitched roof, angular shed, exposed portal frame, metal-looking bolts or gussets",
    "Three low rounded workshop pods arranged west, north and east around a central sorting drum",
    "An open south-facing forecourt with visible trade counters and service openings",
    "Every constructed element is visibly plastic or synthetic-fiber polymer composite",
    "Freestanding on flat ground"
  ],
  "idle_animation": "A slow feed paddle is visible turning through a small amber inspection window in one rear hopper.",
  "day_night": "Warm light fills the recessed trade counters and amber inspection windows while a soft strip beneath each curled roof lip traces the three pods.",
  "approved": true,
  "city_snapshot": "buildings/03-economic/renders/city-v001.md",
  "motif_snapshot": "buildings/03-economic/renders/motifs-v001.md",
  "revision": "Replace the rejected angular industrial shed with a sculptural horseshoe of rounded molding pods and capsule hoppers, preserving the reclamation function, recycled material story and Polara palette.",
  "image": "buildings/03-economic/renders/render-v003.png"
}