{
  "kind": "building",
  "id": "02-resource-collector",
  "role": "resource-collector",
  "name": "Eightfold Meltwater House",
  "function": "A communal waterworks receives glacial meltwater, settles sediment and distributes water through eight service outlets.",
  "shape_and_silhouette": "A narrow square intake tower descends into a broad triangular cascade of one, two, four and eight stone channels above a low cistern house.",
  "visual_description": "Precisely dressed pale channel stones split across dark rubble buttresses, while a restrained concrete tower, steel sluice fittings and a folded metal maintenance roof reveal successive generations of public investment.",
  "production_notes": "A communal masonry waterwork expanded with a later concrete intake tower, presented freestanding on flat ground with its supply entering through a visible rear pipe.",
  "departure": "An exposed branching water diagram defines the entire front silhouette and gives the resource function an immediately readable fractal form.",
  "shared_traits": [
    "Recursive division into smaller units",
    "Carefully dressed communal thresholds and channels",
    "Rubble structural fabric",
    "Straight supported bridges"
  ],
  "constraints": [
    "Flat freestanding base",
    "Water moves downhill from a supplied elevated header",
    "Eight terminal channels",
    "Complete enclosed cistern-house roof behind the exposed cascade",
    "No terrain-dependent inlet"
  ],
  "idle_animation": "Thin streams descend through the branching channels with restrained ripples in the collection trough.",
  "day_night": "Small amber maintenance lamps illuminate the sluice controls and ground-level service door.",
  "version": 1,
  "image": "buildings/02-resource-collector/renders/render-v001.png",
  "approved": true,
  "city_snapshot": "city-v001.md",
  "motif_snapshot": "motifs/brief-v001.md"
}