Breakout Area
Soft seating placed off a working floor for unscheduled conversation and short escapes from a desk; open to the floor, which is what separates it from meeting_room.
How it connects
Breakout Area is a kind of Lounge.
Other kinds of Lounge: Family Lounge, Library Lounge, Members' Lounge, Outdoor Lounge, Recovery Lounge, Resident Lounge, Roof Lounge, Staff Respite and Student Lounge.
In other taxonomies
- Breakout spacesUniclass, SL_90_20_08the same thing
- Getty AATno equivalent
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Top of the axis
- Lounge10
Breakout Area
10 terms, Members' Lounge to Outdoor Lounge
Record
- Broader
- Lounge
- Provenance
- vendoredPROGRAM_SPACE_TYPES in a project-materials database (src-07), read 21 Aug 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/space/breakout-areaKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptSpaceincoming
- has-conceptSpaceincoming
- belongs-to-axisSpaceoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetSpaceoutgoing
- broaderLoungeoutgoing
- narrowerLoungeincoming
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Loungeoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Family Loungeoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Library Loungeoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Members' Loungeoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Outdoor Loungeoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Recovery Loungeoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Resident Loungeoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Roof Loungeoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Staff Respiteoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Student Loungeoutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uniclass | SL_90_20_08 | Breakout spaces | the same thing |
| Getty AAT | no equivalent | searched 21 Oct 2026PREFIX skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> SELECT ?s ?label ?note WHERE { ?s skos:inScheme <http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/> ; skos:prefLabel ?label . FILTER(langMatches(lang(?label),"en")) FILTER(REGEX(STR(?label), "^(breakout\\ area|breakout\\ areaes|breakout\\ areas)( \\(|$)", "i")) OPTIONAL { ?s skos:scopeNote/rdf:value ?note FILTER(langMatches(lang(?note),"en")) } } LIMIT 40 via https://vocab.getty.edu/sparql | none |