Terrace
A paved exterior volume at or near ground level, furnished and used as an outdoor room.
Also called patio, deck.
How it connects
Terrace is a kind of Outdoor.
Terrace typically holds Terracotta and Patio.
Other kinds of Outdoor: Balcony, Canopy Zone, Courtyard, Facade Zone, Garden, Home Exterior, Outdoor Dining, Plaza, Pool Deck, Porch, Porte-Cochère, Roof Deck and Walkway.
In other taxonomies
- terraces (landscaped-site elements)Getty AAT, 300004182the same thing
- patios (recreation areas)Getty AAT, 300004184nearly the same
- PatiosUniclass, SL_32_35_60nearly the same
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
The word “terrace”
2 meanings
- TerraceSpace, this termNo default
- Terraced HouseTypologyNo default
Record
patio is carried as another name for it rather than standing as a sibling. The two words cover the same paved outdoor room, chiefly British against chiefly American, and the distinction sometimes claimed for them - raised against ground level - is not observed consistently enough in either corpus to specify against.
- Also called
- patio · deck
- Seen in the wild
- patio
- Broader
- Outdoor
- Provenance
- vendoredPROGRAM_SPACE_TYPES in a project-materials database (src-07), read 21 Aug 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/space/terraceKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- typically-inPatioincoming
- has-conceptSpaceincoming
- has-conceptSpaceincoming
- typically-inTerracottaincoming
- narrowerOutdoorincoming
- belongs-to-axisSpaceoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetSpaceoutgoing
- broaderOutdooroutgoing
- typically-containsPatiooutgoing
- typically-containsTerracottaoutgoing
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)Porte-Cochèreoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Roof Deckoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Walkwayoutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | 300004182 | terraces (landscaped-site elements) | the same thing |
| Getty AAT | 300004184 | patios (recreation areas) | nearly the same |
| Uniclass | SL_32_35_60 | Patios | nearly the same |