Apricot Court

A six-household cooperative residence in Polara, a city made entirely of plastic with the warm communal optimism of 1970s futurism. A low asymmetric L-shaped building stands on a shallow molded cellular raft plinth on flat ground. Its west wing is three stories high, its north wing two stories high, and their inner faces enclose a small court open toward the south and east. A continuous broad cream stoop connects three recessed persimmon entry doors on the courtyard elevations. Both wings have shallow opaque roof trays with thick rolled edges; a compact amber acrylic greenhouse with a shallow curved roof occupies the northern half of the taller wing's roof, leaving the remaining roof as a screened terrace.

Ribbed load-bearing thermoplastic panels carry replaceable cream outer skins with paired vertical assembly seams. The windows are horizontal amber acrylic rectangles recessed deeply into chunky rounded cream hoods. Avocado perforated sliding screens shade the west-facing balconies; each balcony is supported by integral molded wall brackets and has tobacco-colored polymer infill. The east end has two small recessed laundry windows and a projecting corrugated cream awning; the north rear has a regular rhythm of hooded windows, one service door and an exposed orange drain pipe. The south end of the taller wing has three stacked hooded windows. Roof corners carry small orange cup-chain drains, and two squat butter-yellow mushroom cowls vent the lower roof.

Keep the lived-in alterations precise: one persimmon welded patch on an avocado ground-floor panel and a slightly yellowed greenhouse shell. Matte cream polymer paving fills the court; all railings, fasteners, foundations, doors and glazing are plastic, with no exposed metal, mineral masonry or timber. This is intimate housing with room-sized modules and deep shade, not a smooth single-piece sculpture.