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Place
Where is it, or where does it evoke?
Where this axis ends
One vocabulary, two predicates. A project is LOCATED IN a place; a room EVOKES one. Both are true and neither is derivable from the other, which is why there is no separate place-as-idiom vocabulary here.
21 terms, in 2 facets
Region12 terms
| Term | Identifier | Definition | Broader | Usage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mediterranean | place.region.mediterranean | Lime-rendered mass walls, small deep openings, terracotta, shade as a planning move, and an indoor-outdoor threshold treated as habitable. | None | - |
| Tuscan | place.region.tuscan | The central-Italian reading of the Mediterranean idiom: stone, ochre render, cypress. | Mediterranean | - |
| Moroccan | place.region.moroccan | Zellige, carved plaster, courtyard planning, saturated pigment on lime. | None | - |
| Nordic | place.region.nordic | Pale softwood, white walls, functional furniture and daylight treated as scarce and precious. The idiom, not the five countries. | None | - |
| Japanese | place.region.japanese | Modular proportion, timber frame legible as structure, paper-diffused light, floor-level occupation, and emptiness as a positive value. | None | - |
| English Country | place.region.english_country | Layered pattern, inherited furniture, faded chintz and rugs, and rooms that read as accumulated rather than designed. | None | - |
| Cotswolds | place.region.cotswolds | The oolitic-limestone reading of the English country idiom: honey stone, steep stone-slate roofs, mullioned windows, low ceilings. | English Country | - |
| French Provincial | place.region.french_provincial | Limewashed stone, painted and waxed timber, restrained classical joinery. | None | - |
| Mexican | place.region.mexican | Saturated pigment on mass walls, volcanic stone, deep shade, and colour used architecturally rather than decoratively. | None | - |
| American Southwest | place.region.american_southwest | Adobe mass, vigas, earth-pigment render, deep-set openings. | None | - |
| New England | place.region.new_england | Painted clapboard, shingle, panelled rooms, restrained colonial joinery. | None | - |
| Californian | place.region.californian | Indoor-outdoor living taken as the plan's premise, low-slung volumes, canyon and beach informality. | None | - |
Landscape9 terms
| Term | Identifier | Definition | Broader | Usage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coastal | place.landscape.coastal | The seaside setting and its conventions: bleached and salted surfaces, blue and white, rattan and rope, light treated as reflected off water. | None | occasional |
| Waterfront | place.landscape.waterfront | On water that is not the sea: river, lake, dock, canal. | None | - |
| Tropical | place.landscape.tropical | Cross-ventilation, deep overhangs, screens instead of glass, planting as enclosure. | None | - |
| Desert | place.landscape.desert | Thermal mass, minimal openings to the sun, earth-toned ground and building as one. | None | - |
| Mountain | place.landscape.mountain | Heavy timber, stone plinths, steep roofs, enclosure against weather. | None | - |
| Forest | place.landscape.forest | Timber, filtered green light, building read against a canopy. | None | - |
| Rural | place.landscape.rural | Open agricultural land; the working countryside rather than a scenic one. | None | - |
| Suburban | place.landscape.suburban | Low-density detached and semi-detached settlement around a city. | None | - |
| Urban | place.landscape.urban | Dense city fabric; the building is one of a continuous run. | None | - |
Machine-readable
Every term on this axis is in the full dump: JSON-LD · Turtle