Courtyard
An uncovered exterior volume enclosed or nearly enclosed by the walls of a building, so that the building's own faces are what bound it.
How it connects
Courtyard is a kind of Outdoor.
Courtyard includes Arrival Courtyard.
Other kinds of Outdoor: Balcony, Canopy Zone, Facade Zone, Garden, Home Exterior, Outdoor Dining, Plaza, Pool Deck, Porch, Porte-Cochère, Roof Deck, Terrace and Walkway.
In other taxonomies
- courtyards (uncovered spaces)Getty AAT, 300004095the same thing
- CourtyardsUniclass, SL_90_10_17the same thing
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Record
- Broader
- Outdoor
- Narrower
- Arrival Courtyard
- Provenance
- vendoredPROGRAM_SPACE_TYPES in a project-materials database (src-07), read 21 Aug 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/space/courtyardKnowledge 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
- broaderArrival Courtyardincoming
- belongs-to-axisSpaceoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetSpaceoutgoing
- broaderOutdooroutgoing
- narrowerArrival Courtyardoutgoing
- narrowerOutdoorincoming
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Outdooroutgoing
- descendant (derived)Arrival Courtyardoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Balconyoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Canopy Zoneoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Facade Zoneoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Gardenoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Home Exterioroutgoing
- sibling (derived)Outdoor Diningoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Plazaoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Pool Deckoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Porchoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Porte-Cochèreoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Roof Deckoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Terraceoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Walkwayoutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | 300004095 | courtyards (uncovered spaces) | the same thing |
| Uniclass | SL_90_10_17 | Courtyards | the same thing |