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"Documented · Source attached" }, "scope": { "practice": "Cycladic vernacular" }, "derives_from": [], "ruling": null }, { "id": "kcc:technique-1", "text": "Cycladic walls are stone (newer ones reinforced concrete) coated in lime whitewash, valued as a disinfectant and for keeping interiors cool.", "role": "rule", "area": "technique", "basis": "documentary", "support": { "state": "cited", "for": [ "kcc-mediterranean-S4", "kcc-mediterranean-S6" ], "against": [], "contested": false }, "label": { "kind": "documented", "mark": "attached", "text": "Documented · Source attached" }, "scope": { "practice": "Cycladic" }, "derives_from": [], "ruling": null }, { "id": "kcc:technique-2", "text": "Mediterranean Revival relies on stucco exteriors, red clay barrel tile roofing, terra cotta decorative insets, heavy timbers and ornamental wrought iron.", "role": "rule", "area": "technique", "basis": "documentary", "support": { "state": "cited", "for": [ "kcc-mediterranean-S2" ], "against": [], "contested": false }, "label": { "kind": "documented", "mark": "attached", "text": "Documented · Source attached" }, "scope": { "practice": "Mediterranean Revival" }, "derives_from": [], "ruling": null }, { "id": "kcc:technique-3", "text": "Clay roof tiles are interlocked and bedded in mortar to waterproof the roof.", "role": "context", "area": "technique", "basis": "observed", "support": { "state": "observed_instances", "for": [ "kcc-mediterranean-S6" ], "against": [], "contested": false }, "label": { "kind": "seen", "text": "Seen in the work" }, "scope": { "practice": "observed in the Sporades by a student traveller; weak source" }, "derives_from": [], "ruling": null }, { "id": "kcc:form-1", "text": "Cycladic building is cubic and rigidly geometric, with flat roofs and few, small openings, the geometry explained as protection from wind and light.", "role": "rule", "area": "form", "basis": "documentary", "support": { "state": "cited", "for": [ "kcc-mediterranean-S4", 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The arched opening is the nearest physical analogue to a radius and is recorded under form, not as an interface rule.", "role": "context", "area": "interface", "basis": "documentary", "support": { "state": "cited", "for": [ "kcc-mediterranean-S1", "kcc-mediterranean-S3" ], "against": [], "contested": false }, "label": { "kind": "documented", "mark": "attached", "text": "Documented · Source attached" }, "derives_from": [], "ruling": null }, { "id": "kcc:w2-typography-1", "text": "A Los Angeles preservation context statement lists character-defining features of Mediterranean Revival, including a low-pitched, typically hipped clay-tile roof, a relatively formal composition approaching symmetry, and limited applied decoration.", "role": "negative", "area": "typography", "basis": "documentary", "support": { "state": "cited", "for": [ "kcc-mediterranean-W2S1" ], "against": [], "contested": false }, "label": { "kind": "documented", "mark": "attached", "text": "Documented · Source attached" }, "scope": { "practice": "Los Angeles, Mediterranean Revival sub-theme 1918-1942. The absence of lettering from a feature list is a silence, not a documented refusal." }, "derives_from": [], "ruling": null }, { "id": "kcc:w2-typography-2", "text": "The context statement says detailing on Los Angeles Union Station, such as the tower clocks and the flat entrance canopy with sans-serif lettering spelling 'Union Station', provides a modernist touch.", "role": "diagnostic", "area": "typography", "basis": "documentary", "support": { "state": "cited", "for": [ "kcc-mediterranean-W2S1" ], "against": [], "contested": false }, "label": { "kind": "documented", "mark": "attached", "text": "Documented · Source attached" }, "scope": { "practice": "One Spanish Colonial Revival building in Los Angeles, a sibling sub-theme of Mediterranean Revival within the same context statement." }, "derives_from": [], "ruling": null }, { "id": "kcc:definition", "text": "Mediterranean is a composite of two documented building traditions: the Cycladic Greek island vernacular of cubic, lime-whitewashed stone houses, and North American Mediterranean Revival architecture (early 20th century, flourishing in the 1920s and 1930s, chiefly Florida and California) of stucco, red clay barrel tile, loggias, arcades and courtyards drawn particularly from Spain and Italy; the composite itself, the hard noon light, cobalt, lemon and olive are Aesthetary's reading.", "role": "definition", "area": null, "basis": "documentary", "support": { "state": "cited", "for": [ "kcc-mediterranean-S4", "kcc-mediterranean-S6", "kcc-mediterranean-S1", "kcc-mediterranean-S2" ], "against": [], "contested": false }, "label": { "kind": "documented", "mark": "attached", "text": "Documented · Source attached" }, "derives_from": [], "ruling": null }, { "id": "dcc:intent", "text": "A place defined by its light, in Aesthetary's composite. Cycladic lime whitewash, valued as a disinfectant and for keeping interiors cool, and Revival stucco and red clay tile are the documented surfaces; setting them under one noon sun, with cobalt, is our reading, so the register is a claim about light before it is a claim about style.", "role": "argument", "area": null, "basis": "synthesis", "support": { "state": "none", "for": [], "against": [], "contested": false }, "label": { "kind": "reading", "text": "Our reading" }, "derives_from": [ "kcc:definition", "kcc:technique-1", "kcc:technique-2" ], "ruling": null }, { "id": "dcc:color-5", "text": "Colour: high-contrast warm. Our composite sets whitewash against cobalt; the documented materials are lime whitewash for the Cycladic half and stucco with red clay tile for the Revival half, and cobalt is Aesthetary's reading.", "role": "rule", "area": "color", "basis": "synthesis", "support": { "state": "none", "for": [], "against": [], "contested": false }, "label": { "kind": "reading", "text": "Our reading" }, "derives_from": [ "kcc:definition", "kcc:technique-1", "kcc:technique-2", "mass-01:med-whitewash-and-cobalt-absent" ], "ruling": null }, { "id": "dcc:surface-8", "text": "Form/motif/surface/technique: red clay tile and terracotta insets on stucco (Revival) and lime whitewash on stone (Cycladic); lemon and olive motifs are Aesthetary's reading.", "role": "rule", "area": null, "basis": "synthesis", "support": { "state": "none", "for": [], "against": [], "contested": false }, "label": { "kind": "reading", "text": "Our reading" }, "derives_from": [ "kcc:definition", "kcc:technique-1", "kcc:technique-2" ], "ruling": null }, { "id": "dcc:motif", "text": "Motif: lemon and olive, as Aesthetary's reading; no opened source records either motif for the Cycladic or the Revival tradition.", "role": "rule", "area": "motif", "basis": "synthesis", "support": { "state": "none", "for": [], "against": [], "contested": false }, "label": { "kind": "reading", "text": "Our reading" }, "derives_from": [ "kcc:definition" ], "ruling": null }, { "id": "dcc:failure-6", "text": "Against Coastal: hot saturated noon versus cool washed light. Historical, no substitute inferred. Against Earthy Modern: light-defined versus palette-defined. Historical. Anti-signature: soften the light and the register is gone regardless of palette.", "role": "negative", "area": null, "basis": "synthesis", "support": { "state": "none", "for": [], "against": [], "contested": false }, "label": { "kind": "reading", "text": "Our reading" }, "derives_from": [], "ruling": null }, { "id": "dcc:gestalt-boundary", "text": "Against Coastal: hot saturated noon versus cool washed light. Historical, no substitute inferred. Against Earthy Modern: light-defined versus palette-defined. Historical. Anti-signature: soften the light and the register is gone regardless of palette.", "role": "boundary", "area": null, "basis": "synthesis", "support": { "state": "none", "for": [], "against": [], "contested": false }, "label": { "kind": "reading", "text": "Our reading" }, "derives_from": [], "ruling": null }, { "id": "dcc:gestalt", "text": "Whitewashed surfaces cut by hard-edged shadows from a sun near vertical, with saturated cobalt against them, glazed tile and terracotta as the material pair, and lemon and olive motifs. The diagnostic condition is the light temperature: noon sun, short crisp shadows, high contrast between lit and unlit — the same palette under soft light is a northern coastal register and not this. Earthy Modern and Coastal were the historical comparisons.", "role": "diagnostic", "area": null, "basis": "synthesis", "support": { "state": "none", "for": [], "against": [], "contested": false }, "label": { "kind": "reading", "text": "Our reading" }, "derives_from": [], "ruling": null }, { "id": "dcc:me-r1", "text": "The light temperature is the diagnostic: near-vertical sun, short crisp shadows, high contrast between lit and unlit. 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Every value carries a basis: \"record\" is a rule the record holds (cites names it), \"translation\" is our choice derived from the cited rules (because says how), \"not_recorded\" means the record is silent (guidance says what to do). A \"record\" value restates a claim the record holds; its standing is that claim's own kind in the record (a requirement, period practice, modern practice, or our interpretation), which the cited rule states. \"record\" does not by itself make a value a property of the language.", "slug": "mediterranean", "version": "2026-09-29", "summary": "A starting grammar for a website in Aesthetary's Mediterranean composite: documented lime whitewash (Cycladic) and stucco, red clay tile and terracotta (Mediterranean Revival), set by us under one near-vertical sun, with cobalt, lemon and olive as our reading. It is not a canonical Mediterranean palette.", "color": { "roles": [ { "role": "whitewash", "value": "#FBF9F3", "use": "Ground and walls. Documented: lime whitewash on Cycladic stone.", "basis": "translation", "cites": [ "claim:kcc:technique-1" ] }, { "role": "terracotta", "value": "#B4552F", "contrast": "4.9:1 (white on it)", "use": "Tile and terracotta. Documented for Mediterranean Revival.", "basis": "translation", "cites": [ "claim:kcc:technique-2" ] }, { "role": "ink", "value": "#1E2430", "contrast": "14.8:1", "use": "Text. Ours.", "basis": "translation", "cites": [ "claim:dcc:color-5" ] }, { "role": "cobalt", "value": "#1B4B9B", "contrast": "7.9:1", "use": "Headings, links, openings. Our reading, not a sourced colour.", "basis": "translation", "cites": [ "claim:dcc:color-5", "claim:kcc:definition" ] } ], "alternates": [ { "label": "Lemon", "recorded": "our reading; no source", "value": "#F2D23C", "basis": "translation", "cites": [ "claim:dcc:motif" ] }, { "label": "Olive", "recorded": "our reading; no source", "value": "#6B7A3A", "basis": "translation", "cites": [ "claim:dcc:motif" ] } ], "rules": [ { "rule": "Keep the documented materials and our composite apart: whitewash is Cycladic, stucco and red tile are Revival, cobalt is ours.", "basis": "record", "cites": [ "claim:dcc:color-5" ] }, { "rule": "Use cobalt for headings, links and openings only as our composite's accent.", "basis": "translation", "cites": [ "claim:kcc:definition", "claim:dcc:color-5" ], "because": "The definition marks cobalt as Aesthetary's reading; the Revival sources name no blue." }, { "rule": "No palette is documented across both traditions.", "basis": "not_recorded", "cites": [], "guidance": "Never present cobalt, white, lemon and olive as a period palette. If you need a sourced colour, use whitewash, stucco and red tile, each named with its tradition.", "silence": "source" } ] }, "typography": { "family": { "stack": "\"Work Sans MD\", \"Helvetica Neue\", Arial, sans-serif", "class": "a plain sans for text; Marcellus for display (both ours)" }, "roles": [ { "role": "display", "size": "clamp(2rem, 9vw, 7.5rem)", "weight": 400, "lineHeight": "1", "case": null, "tracking": "0.02em", "measure": null, "use": "The name, in Marcellus." }, { "role": "heading", "size": "clamp(2rem, 4.6vw, 3.25rem)", "weight": 400, "lineHeight": "1.1", "case": null, "tracking": null, "measure": null, "use": "Section heads, in Marcellus." }, { "role": "body", "size": "1.125rem", "weight": 400, "lineHeight": "1.65", "case": null, "tracking": null, "measure": "66ch", "use": "Text, in Work Sans." } ], "tokens": { "font-display": "\"Marcellus MD\", \"Palatino Linotype\", Georgia, serif" }, "rules": [ { "rule": "Typography is a declared freedom in this record.", "basis": "record", "cites": [ "claim:freedom-typography" ] }, { "rule": "Whether any lettering convention is attested for either tradition is an open question.", "basis": "not_recorded", "cites": [ "claim:kcc:w2-typography-2" ], "guidance": "Choose faces as a decision and say so. One Revival building (Los Angeles Union Station) has sans-serif canopy lettering described as a modernist touch; that is one building, not a convention.", "silence": "source" }, { "rule": "Pair Marcellus for display with Work Sans for text.", "basis": "translation", "cites": [ "claim:freedom-typography" ], "because": "Neither face is on the record; a carved-capital serif and a plain sans keep the page legible under a declared freedom." } ] }, "gridLayout": { "summary": "The sources do not specify a column grid. The documented plans are a courtyard opened by arcades (Revival) and single rectangular rooms clustered round courtyards (Cycladic); we translate both as a composition round a central open area.", "tokens": { "wrap-max": "1100px" }, "rules": [ { "rule": "Revival plans are commonly U- or L-shaped round a courtyard, opened by loggias and arcades.", "basis": "record", "cites": [ "claim:kcc:layout-1" ] }, { "rule": "Revival façades are described as massive and symmetrical.", "basis": "record", "cites": [ "claim:kcc:layout-2" ] }, { "rule": "Compose the page round a central open area, formally and close to symmetrical.", "basis": "translation", "cites": [ "claim:kcc:layout-1", "claim:kcc:w2-typography-1" ], "because": "The courtyard plan and the near-symmetrical façade both centre the composition." }, { "rule": "The sources do not specify a column grid.", "basis": "not_recorded", "cites": [], "guidance": "Do not add one as if it were the style's; if you need one, state it as a decision.", "silence": "source" } ] }, "shapeGeometry": { "tokens": { "arch": "999px 999px 0 0", "radius": "14px", "shadow-noon": "4px 6px 0 rgba(20,30,60,.55)" }, "rules": [ { "rule": "Arches are common to both traditions.", "basis": "record", "cites": [ "claim:kcc:form-3" ] }, { "rule": "Cycladic building is cubic and rigidly geometric, with few, small openings.", "basis": "record", "cites": [ "claim:kcc:form-1" ] }, { "rule": "Use square blocks with a few arched openings; keep the arch for the elements that open.", "basis": "translation", "cites": [ "claim:kcc:interface-1", "claim:kcc:form-1" ], "because": "The arched opening is the nearest physical analogue to a radius; cubic masses carry the rest." }, { "rule": "Cast every shadow from one near-vertical sun: short, hard, unblurred.", "basis": "translation", "cites": [ "claim:dcc:me-r1" ], "because": "Our composite's diagnostic is the light temperature." } ] }, "imagery": { "rules": [ { "rule": "Photograph surfaces in hard shadow.", "basis": "record", "cites": [ "token_rule:imagery-7" ] }, { "rule": "Keep the light near vertical: short crisp shadows, high contrast between lit and unlit.", "basis": "record", "cites": [ "claim:dcc:me-r1" ] }, { "rule": "No photograph is held that we may show.", "basis": "not_recorded", "cites": [], "guidance": "Use real photographs of named places, and say which tradition each shows. Do not mix a Cycladic island and a Florida hotel as one place.", "silence": "source" } ] }, "components": { "button": { "name": "Button", "becomes": "A small whitewashed opening: a flat block with an arched top, lit from directly overhead so it casts a short hard shadow.", "anatomy": [ "flat fill", "arched top corners, square bottom", "short hard shadow straight down, no blur" ], "tokens": { "radius": "999px 999px 6px 6px", "shadow": "0 6px 0 rgba(20,30,60,.55)", "background": "cobalt (ours)" }, "states": { "default": "Cobalt fill, white label, short hard shadow.", "hover": "Terracotta fill.", "focus": "3px terracotta outline, 3px outside.", "active": "The shadow closes to 2px: pressed toward the wall.", "disabled": "Whitewash fill, grey label, no shadow; the label says it is unavailable." }, "accessibility": [ "White on cobalt is 8.3:1; white on terracotta 4.9:1.", "At least 44px tall." ], "values": [ { "rule": "Give the button an arched top.", "basis": "translation", "cites": [ "claim:kcc:form-3", "claim:kcc:interface-1" ], "because": "Arches are common to both traditions, and the arched opening is the nearest physical analogue to a radius." }, { "rule": "Cast one short, hard shadow straight down.", "basis": "translation", "cites": [ "claim:dcc:me-r1" ], "because": "Our composite sets everything under a near-vertical sun; the hard short shadow is how that reads." } ] }, "card": { "name": "Card", "becomes": "A whitewashed wall: a flat light slab with a short hard noon shadow, heading in the display face.", "anatomy": [ "whitewash slab", "short hard shadow", "heading, text, one link" ], "tokens": { "background": "whitewash #FBF9F3", "radius": "14px", "shadow": "4px 6px 0 rgba(20,30,60,.55)" }, "states": { "default": "Slab and shadow.", "hover": "The heading underlines.", "focus": "3px terracotta outline." }, "accessibility": [ "Ink on whitewash is 14.8:1.", "The whole card is one link with the heading as its name." ], "values": [ { "rule": "Make the card a whitewashed slab.", "basis": "translation", "cites": [ "claim:kcc:technique-1" ], "because": "Cycladic walls are coated in lime whitewash; a card is a wall section." }, { "rule": "Rank cards by how sharply they are lit.", "basis": "translation", "cites": [ "token_rule:hierarchy-13" ], "because": "Our rule: the most sharply lit element leads." } ] }, "input": { "name": "Input", "becomes": "A recessed whitewash field: a flat fill with its label above and an inset hard shadow along the top edge.", "anatomy": [ "label above in the text face", "whitewash field", "inset shadow on the top edge" ], "tokens": { "background": "whitewash", "border": "2px solid #E3DFD3", "radius": "10px", "inset": "inset 0 3px 0 rgba(20,30,60,.18)" }, "states": { "default": "Rule-coloured border.", "focus": "Cobalt border and a terracotta outline.", "error": "An \"Error:\" sentence in deep terracotta.", "disabled": "No inset shadow, grey text." }, "accessibility": [ "A visible label on every field.", "Error text is 5.7:1 and written, not only coloured." ], "values": [ { "rule": "Recess the field with a hard inset shadow from above.", "basis": "translation", "cites": [ "claim:dcc:me-r1" ], "because": "An opening in a wall under an overhead sun is shaded along its top edge." } ] }, "navigation": { "name": "Navigation", "becomes": "An arcade: a row of arched openings, the current one filled.", "anatomy": [ "links in a row", "each with an arched top outline", "current opening filled cobalt" ], "tokens": { "radius": "999px 999px 0 0", "current": "cobalt fill (ours)", "rest": "whitewash with rule outline" }, "states": { "default": "Whitewash openings, cobalt text.", "hover": "Terracotta text.", "focus": "3px terracotta outline.", "current": "Filled, with aria-current." }, "accessibility": [ "aria-current on the current page.", "Each opening at least 44px tall." ], "values": [ { "rule": "Set the navigation as an arcade of arched openings.", "basis": "translation", "cites": [ "claim:kcc:layout-1", "claim:kcc:form-3" ], "because": "Revival plans are opened by loggias and arcades; arches are common to both traditions." } ] } }, "motion": { "spec": { "durations": { "state": "0ms" }, "easing": { "state": "none" }, "transforms": "none", "entrance": "None: the page is already at noon.", "hover": "An instant colour swap.", "reducedMotion": "Nothing changes: there is no animation to reduce." }, "rules": [ { "rule": "Noon light does not move.", "basis": "translation", "cites": [ "claim:motion-reason" ], "because": "The cited rule belongs to the Aesthetic's own medium; applying it to a screen component or motion is our translation." }, { "rule": "Change state instantly; if anything moves, let it be the reader's hand, as on this page's sun slider.", "basis": "translation", "cites": [ "claim:motion-reason" ], "because": "The register depends on a fixed overhead light." } ] }, "dimensions": [ { "key": "composite", "label": "The composite", "summary": "Two documented traditions, put together by us. Mediterranean names a sea, not one tradition.", "values": [ { "rule": "Mediterranean is a composite of Cycladic vernacular and North American Mediterranean Revival.", "basis": "record", "cites": [ "claim:kcc:definition" ] }, { "rule": "Lemon and olive are our reading; no source records them.", "basis": "record", "cites": [ "claim:dcc:motif" ] }, { "rule": "Label every sourced material with its tradition and every composite choice as ours, wherever both appear.", "basis": "translation", "cites": [ "claim:kcc:definition", "claim:dcc:surface-8" ], "because": "Evidence and composite stay visibly distinct, so no one takes a composite choice for a tradition's own." } ] }, { "key": "light", "label": "Light", "summary": "Our composite is a claim about light before it is a claim about style.", "values": [ { "rule": "Rank by shadow contrast: the most sharply lit element leads.", "basis": "record", "cites": [ "token_rule:hierarchy-13" ] }, { "rule": "The same materials under soft light are a different register.", "basis": "record", "cites": [ "claim:dcc:me-r1" ] } ] } ], "notRecorded": [ { "category": "color", "what": "A palette across both traditions", "why": "Sources give whitewash (Cycladic) and stucco, red tile, terracotta (Revival); cobalt, lemon and olive are ours." }, { "category": "typography", "what": "A lettering convention", "why": "An open question for both traditions." }, { "category": "gridLayout", "what": "A column grid", "why": "The record holds building plans, not a grid." }, { "category": "components", "what": "Interface conventions", "why": "The research record does not establish them. The four components are contemporary translations of documented rules." } ], "silence": { "color": "source", "typography": "source", "gridLayout": "source", "shapeGeometry": "source", "imagery": "source", "components": "source", "motion": "source" } } } }