{
  "kind": "building",
  "id": "04-monumental",
  "role": "monumental",
  "name": "The Reserved Silence",
  "function": "A dynastic monument reserves untouched burial strata for descendants not yet born, publicly withdrawing precious capacity from the living city.",
  "shape_and_silhouette": "Five deep limestone fins rise in unequal stair-stepped profiles from a horseshoe platform, forming a monumental stone comb around a sunken open-air court whose processional stair ends at a sealed circular bronze door.",
  "visual_description": "Knife-narrow daylight slots divide warm pale masonry, hundreds of blank inset name tablets climb the inner fin faces, and a dark bronze door sits within concentric stone rings below an elevated, inaccessible ceremonial balcony.",
  "production_notes": "This dynastic monument combines the fine ashlar and surveyed courses of civic architecture with a below-platform exterior court, presenting a freestanding building on flat surrounding ground without exposing any burial chambers.",
  "departure": "Its empty tablets commemorate people not yet born, while the descent to a locked door makes visitors physically experience the exclusion that purchases those future lives space.",
  "shared_traits": [
    "Broad shallow stairs and surveyed stone courses",
    "Wealth expressed as unbuilt ground",
    "Sealed access and plugged inspection holes"
  ],
  "constraints": [
    "Exactly five parallel front-to-back masonry fins tied into a solid rear spine, with four open-to-sky slots",
    "A lowered exterior court lies within a raised horseshoe plinth on flat ground, with no underground cutaway",
    "Stepped fin crowns remain solid masonry with no unsupported cantilevers",
    "Blank tablets only, no skulls, skeletons or statues"
  ],
  "idle_animation": "none",
  "day_night": "Concealed low amber lamps graze the empty tablet rows and circular door after dusk while the stepped crowns remain unlit.",
  "version": 2,
  "image": "buildings/04-monumental/renders/sheet-v002.webp",
  "approved": false,
  "city_snapshot": "city-v001.md",
  "motif_snapshot": "motifs/brief-v001.md",
  "revision": "Replace the two plain blades with a five-fin stepped comb and lowered ceremonial court while preserving the name, dynastic reservation function, pale limestone, bronze seals, survey marks and conspicuous empty ground."
}