| Regional styles of Island 1 | |
|---|---|
 Stara Luka, a style A town, in massing | |
| Type | Architecture |
| Location | Island 1 |
| Styles | A Dalmatian/Istrian · B Italian/Provençal · C combined |
| Decided | 2026-09-24 (director) |
| Status | Confirmed |
Regional styles (A, B, C)
Island 1 is built in three regional styles. Every building in one settlement shares one style, so each town reads as one place built by one community.
Style A: Dalmatian/Istrian (the coast)
- Grey-white limestone, dressed quoins, unglazed openings with solid shutters.
- The balatura (an outside stone stair to the upper door), the konoba (a ground-floor cellar for wine and oil), and suhozid (dry-stone walls).
- From Istria: carved stone window and door surrounds, stone balconies on consoles, a bell tower on the square, škrlje stone-slab roofs on older and rural buildings beside barrel tiles, and round dry-stone field huts (kažun).
- Used by: Stara Luka, Smokovje, Pržina.
Style B: Italian/Provençal (the interior)
- Ochre and warm lime render over rubble, pergolas and loggias.
- Used by: Valponte and its old cemetery.
Style C: the combined recipe
One fixed recipe: A below, B above. - Style A limestone for the ground floor, plinth, full-height quoins and the door and window surrounds. - Muted, sun-bleached ochre render on the upper floors. - Barrel-tile roofs only; arcades only as stone arches at ground level; no balatura, no upper pergola. - Used only by Gradina, the garrison on the ridge saddle.
The placement rules
- Coastal settlements (harbours, fishing villages, villages on the slopes above the sea) are style A.
- Inland settlements are style B.
- Style C is only for a settlement in the transition belt between coast and interior, and only when its town plan says so.
- One style per settlement. A building that doesn't match its settlement's style fails review.
- Shutters: plain brown wood in every style, natural or dark-stained and weathered, never green, blue or red (director, 2026-09-24).
See also
Sources: docs/level-notes.md (Island 1); docs/towns/island1/settlements.md; CLAUDE.md (One style per settlement) Last updated: 2026-09-29 (WIKI-1)