Porte-Cochère
The covered vehicle drop-off at a building's entrance: a volume sized by a car door opening, with the weather kept off the head of whoever gets out.
How it connects
Porte-Cochère is a kind of Outdoor.
Other kinds of Outdoor: Balcony, Canopy Zone, Courtyard, Facade Zone, Garden, Home Exterior, Outdoor Dining, Plaza, Pool Deck, Porch, Roof Deck, Terrace and Walkway.
In other taxonomies
- porte-cochèresGetty AAT, 300004143nearly the same
- PorchesUniclass, SL_90_10_64theirs is wider
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Top of the axis
- Outdoor14
14 terms, Porch to Home Exterior
Record
AAT scopes this as the projecting roof structure that does the sheltering, which by this axis's own boundary is an element. The term here is the volume under it, so the match is close and not exact - the same catch that downgraded landing.
- Broader
- Outdoor
- Provenance
- vendoredPROGRAM_SPACE_TYPES in a project-materials database (src-07), read 21 Aug 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/space/porte-cochereKnowledge 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
- narrowerOutdoorincoming
- belongs-to-axisSpaceoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetSpaceoutgoing
- broaderOutdooroutgoing
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Outdooroutgoing
- sibling (derived)Balconyoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Canopy Zoneoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Courtyardoutgoing
- 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)Roof Deckoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Terraceoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Walkwayoutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | 300004143 | porte-cochères | nearly the same |
| Uniclass | SL_90_10_64 | Porches | theirs is wider |