{
  "kind": "building",
  "id": "01-residence",
  "role": "residence",
  "name": "Nested Hearth Court",
  "function": "A communal dwelling houses several related households around a shared open-air court.",
  "shape_and_silhouette": "A low square ring of cubic rooms surrounds a square void, with a taller rear-left corner and three descending parapet steps toward the front-right entrance.",
  "visual_description": "Matte black stone piers and lintels frame nested square openings, white ceramic caps trace the stepped roofline, and violet shutters and a visibly patched side panel temper cyan light from the deep reveals.",
  "production_notes": "An early courtyard dwelling, freestanding on flat obsidian ground, belongs among other low hollow blocks and uses reused mineral closures with individually fitted ceramic caps.",
  "departure": "An uneven roofline and repaired east wall distinguish a lived-in household compound from the tradition\u2019s ideal cubic symmetry.",
  "shared_traits": [
    "Two to three scales of square voids",
    "Substantial uncut corner piers",
    "Internal cyan illumination",
    "Violet mineral closures and white ceramic caps"
  ],
  "constraints": [
    "Keep the central court open to the sky",
    "No gold trim",
    "No branching tower or triangular screen",
    "All fa\u00e7ades and roof surfaces must be designed"
  ],
  "idle_animation": "One upper square shutter eases open and closed by a few degrees on a slow irregular cycle while its frame stays fixed.",
  "day_night": "Day reveals cloudy repaired glazing and stone grain; at night restrained cyan reveal lighting outlines public passages while private violet panes remain dim.",
  "version": 1
}