{
  "kind": "building",
  "id": "apricot-court",
  "role": "residence",
  "name": "Apricot Court",
  "footprint": "2.5×1.7 tiles",
  "function": "A six-household cooperative shares a shaded entrance court, laundry room and rooftop winter garden.",
  "shape_and_silhouette": "Two stepped residential wings form a low L around a front court, with one three-story end capped by a small amber greenhouse.",
  "visual_description": "Cream molded wall panels, deep amber window hoods and avocado sliding screens surround persimmon doors, patched corners and a broad shared stoop.",
  "production_notes": "An early cooperative dwelling expanded by its residents stands freestanding on flat ground, expressing the intimate and additive domestic fabric rather than municipal monumentality.",
  "departure": "Asymmetric additions and visible repairs distinguish the dwelling from Polara's pristine civic shells.",
  "shared_traits": [
    "Deep recessed acrylic openings",
    "Rolled thermoplastic roof edges",
    "Visible molded joints and careful repairs"
  ],
  "constraints": [
    "All constructed elements are plastic or synthetic-fiber polymer composite",
    "No metal, glass, wood, masonry or concrete",
    "Freestanding on flat ground",
    "Design all four elevations"
  ],
  "idle_animation": "An exterior laundry-room ventilation flap rocks slightly while every major building element remains fixed.",
  "day_night": "Warm household light appears unevenly behind amber windows and the shared stoop lights illuminate after dark."
}