Wayfinding Zone

The volume at a decision point in a building's circulation, where signage, floor change and sightline are specified together to tell an arriving person which way to go.

Where Wayfinding Zone sits among every term. Drag to turn; choose a dot to open it.

How it connects

Wayfinding Zone is typically found in Hospital and Station.

In other taxonomies

Getty AATno equivalent
Uniclassno equivalent

For developersRecord, identifiers and graph

Where it sits

One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term

Wayfinding Zone

127 terms, Entry / Foyer to Other

Record

A zone, not a room. It has no walls of its own - it is a stretch of lobby or corridor given a different specification because it has a job to do. Kept because that different specification is real and is drawn on plans.

Relations: Typically in HospitalTypically in Station
Provenance: vendoredPROGRAM_SPACE_TYPES in a project-materials database (src-07), read 21 Aug 2026

For machines

Permanent address

/id/space/wayfinding-zone

This termGET /v1/concepts/space/wayfinding-zone
The word, every meaningGET /v1/term/wayfinding%20zone

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Knowledge 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
typically-inHospitaloutgoing
typically-inStationoutgoing
typically-containsHospitalincoming
typically-containsStationincoming

Crosswalks

External mappings and dated negative results for Wayfinding Zone
Scheme	Identifier	Their label, or the search	How close
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), "^(wayfinding\\ zone\|wayfinding\\ zonees\|wayfinding\\ zones)( \\(\|$)", "i")) OPTIONAL { ?s skos:scopeNote/rdf:value ?note FILTER(langMatches(lang(?note),"en")) } } LIMIT 40 via https://vocab.getty.edu/sparql	none
Uniclass	no equivalent	searched 21 Oct 2026July 2026 NBS SL v1.36 published tables, title search: Wayfinding Zone \| wayfinding zone via https://uniclass.thenbs.com/download	none