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Morijigoku Architecture
Coastal Style
Not so long ago, the country's coasts were inhabited only by smaller settlements of a few hundred fishermen, making a honest living on the Continental Channel's waters, far from the madness and turmoil of the Deadbeat factions found farther inland. However, the precipitious increase in seaborne trade has catapulted many of those shanty towns to the status of cosmopolitan metropoles. These fast developments have been well-ordered and supervised by local governors in some cases; in others, they've been haphazard as companies moved in to sink their hooks into their share of the rich and hungry inner Morijigoku markets. Whichever the case may be, most of those constructions are modern and foreign-influenced, though still built using local materials.
Thus, a walk through one of these seaside cities will take you past buildings making heavy use of the local tropical woods, such as teak, sal and red lauan, especially in the frames, while clay bricks baked from raw materials gathered in the innemurable riverbeds slashing the shore make up their walls. Morijigoku clay is noted for being found in black varieties in the northern parts of the country, where sediments with basaltic origins are more common, while clay dug up farther south, especially near the Kigamori River, will be a beautiful white color, owing to the large proportion of feldspar found within it.
In terms of architectural technique, influences from Holoimperial architects can be gleaned in the heavy use of regular, small bricks laid and mortared in staggered patterns for increased strength, contrasting the stone masonry approaches preferred in the rest of the country, where larger stones are quarried and cut to size before being brought to the construction site. These seaside areas are also renowned for their high heat and humidity, which led to most buildings either adopting very open designs with natural ventilation, or for wealthier patrons, fully insulating buildings where supernatural air conditioning can be exploited to bring temperatures to more comfortable temperatures. Most buildings tend to be at most three storeys tall to keep ventilation systems simple and reliable, though larger edifices making use of the afore-mentioned climate control technologies also exist.
