{
  "kind": "building",
  "id": "communal-home",
  "role": "residence",
  "name": "Communal Court",
  "size": 2.5,
  "function": "Houses twelve workers around a shared court with a front airlock facing the public path.",
  "shape_and_silhouette": "Two low, flat-roofed, unequal basalt blocks form a U around a central court roofed with one broad sheet of glass glowing dustlight amber. Heavy stepped basalt buttresses brace the outer corners, and a taller, plain square stair tower in signal enamel red rises from the rear wing, capped by one broad pressure-aluminum band.",
  "visual_description": "The outer walls are plain and solid, with a few narrow amber slot windows. One broad aluminum band caps the walls. A deep aluminum frame around a pair of red doors closes the open side of the U. No sculpture: the warm glass court makes shared domestic life the building's brightest feature.",
  "shared_traits": [
    "plain basalt pressure walls",
    "broad aluminum bands",
    "red civic entrance"
  ],
  "departure": "The inward glass court makes collective domestic life its brightest exterior feature.",
  "palette": [
    "Basalt shadow",
    "Pressure aluminum",
    "Signal enamel",
    "Dustlight amber"
  ]
}