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Space
What room is this?
Where this axis ends
A space is a bounded volume a person occupies. The test is whether you can stand in it. A stairwell is a space; a staircase is an element. A shower room is a space; a shower enclosure is an element.
48 terms
| Term | Identifier | Definition | Broader | Usage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hotel Room | space.hotel_room | A let sleeping volume in a hotel, taken together with its ensuite: the guest's whole private territory rather than the bed alone. | None | - |
| Hospitality Lobby | space.hospitality_lobby | The arrival and waiting volume of a hotel or similar: public, staffed, and passed through rather than settled into. | None | - |
| Restaurant | space.restaurant | The public dining volume of a food business, front of house only; the commercial preparation space behind it is `kitchen`. | None | - |
| Patient Room | space.patient_room | An inpatient sleeping and treatment volume, where every surface answers to clinical cleaning, infection control and observation before it answers to comfort. | None | - |
| Clinic | space.clinic | An outpatient consulting and treatment volume, where people arrive and leave the same day. | None | - |
| Workspace | space.workspace | Any volume whose primary occupation is work at a desk or bench, taken generically where the plan type is unknown or mixed. | None | - |
| Meeting Room | space.meeting_room | An enclosed volume for scheduled group discussion; enclosure is the test, so an open meeting table sits in `open_office` and not here. | None | - |
| Living Room | space.living_room | The main shared sitting volume of a dwelling, where the household gathers rather than eats or sleeps. | None | common |
| Bedroom | space.bedroom | A private sleeping volume in a dwelling. | None | common |
| Bathroom | space.bathroom | A volume containing a bath or a shower as well as sanitary fittings; strip the bathing provision out and it becomes `wc`. | None | dominant |
| Corridor | space.corridor | A circulation volume markedly longer than it is wide, whose only purpose is passage between other spaces. | None | - |
| Open Office | space.open_office | A workspace volume with no internal enclosure, where desks share one acoustic and visual field. | Workspace | - |
| Private Office | space.private_office | An enclosed workspace volume held by one person or a small named group, with a door that shuts. | Workspace | - |
| Phone Booth | space.phone_booth | A single-occupant, acoustically isolated volume for calls and short focused work, sized so that occupying it for a whole day is not the intent. | Workspace | - |
| Lounge | space.lounge | A soft-seated volume for waiting or informal use in a commercial setting; separated from `hospitality_lobby` by being sat in rather than passed through. | None | - |
| Cafe / Pantry | space.cafe_pantry | The tea point, servery or staff cafe volume inside a workplace or institution; not a dwelling's `pantry`, and not a `restaurant`. | None | - |
| Operating Room | space.operating_room | A surgical volume held under controlled air pressure and full asepsis. | None | - |
| Exam Room | space.exam_room | A single-patient consulting and examination volume inside a clinic or practice, with no overnight provision. | None | - |
| Lab | space.lab | A volume for bench science, where surfaces answer to chemical attack and contamination control before anything else. | None | - |
| Behavioral Health | space.behavioral_health | A mental-health volume specified against ligature, impact and self-harm risk, which constrains every fixing, edge and fitting in it. | None | - |
| Classroom | space.classroom | A taught volume holding a fixed cohort facing a single teaching position; a lecture theatre with raked seating is `auditorium`. | None | - |
| Library | space.library | A volume for shelved collections and quiet reading. The room, never the institution that runs it. | None | - |
| Gym | space.gym | A volume for exercise, where the floor takes dropped and repeated impact loading. | None | - |
| Auditorium | space.auditorium | A raked or tiered volume holding an audience facing a stage or screen, where acoustics drive the surfaces. | None | - |
| Sales Floor | space.sales_floor | The customer-accessible selling volume of a shop; the stock and staff areas behind it are not this term. | None | - |
| Fitting Room | space.fitting_room | A private changing cubicle off a `sales_floor`, entered to try clothing on. | None | - |
| Kitchen | space.kitchen | A volume for preparing and cooking food, domestic or commercial. The room, never the fitted joinery in it, which is `element.cabinetry`. | None | dominant |
| Dining Room | space.dining_room | A volume whose primary use is seated eating, held apart from the `kitchen` that serves it. | None | common |
| Entry / Foyer | space.entry | The threshold volume immediately inside the front door, where arrival happens; the circulation beyond it is `hallway`. | None | - |
| Outdoor | space.outdoor | Any exterior volume treated as part of the scheme, taken generically where the outdoor type is unknown or mixed. | None | occasional |
| Spa / Pool | space.spa_pool | A wet leisure volume - pool hall, spa suite, steam or sauna - where standing humidity, not splashing, sets the specification. | None | - |
| Ballroom | space.ballroom | A large clear-span event volume for functions, with no fixed seating and a floor laid for dancing. | None | - |
| Other | space.other | The escape hatch for a space no term here reaches. Carried so the vendored dictionary round-trips exactly; never the right home for a space that deserves a term of its own. | None | - |
| Utility / Laundry Room | space.utility_room | A back-of-house domestic working volume for laundry, drying, plant and overflow storage; separated from `kitchen` by not being where meals are cooked. | None | common |
| Boot Room | space.boot_room | A transitional volume between outside and inside where wet outdoor clothing and footwear come off and are stored; distinguished from `entry` by being the working door rather than the front one. | None | occasional |
| Hallway | space.hallway | The internal circulation volume of a dwelling at entrance level, wider and more furnished than a `corridor` and typically the space rooms open off. | None | - |
| Landing | space.landing | The horizontal circulation volume at the head or turn of a stair, from which rooms open; the stair that arrives at it is `element.stair`. | None | - |
| Stairwell | space.stairwell | The vertical volume a stair occupies from floor to floor, including the void beside it; the stair itself is `element.stair`. | None | - |
| Snug | space.snug | A small, enclosed and deliberately low-lit sitting volume held as a retreat from the main `living_room`, rather than as a substitute for it. | Living Room | - |
| Study / Home Office | space.study | A domestic volume given over to desk work, reading or household administration. | Workspace | common |
| Pantry | space.pantry | A domestic store volume off the kitchen for dry goods, small appliances and china; the workplace tea point of the same name is `cafe_pantry`. | None | - |
| Garage | space.garage | A covered volume for parking and workshop use, attached to a dwelling or standing free of it. | None | - |
| Closet & Storage | space.closet_storage | A volume entered only to store or retrieve things - walk-in wardrobe, linen cupboard, store room - never to stay in. | None | - |
| Home Exterior | space.home_exterior | The outside face of a dwelling read as one scheme: walls, roof, joinery and front door taken together as a single specifying surface. | Outdoor | - |
| Garden | space.garden | A planted exterior volume held by the plot, occupied for leisure rather than crossed to get somewhere. | Outdoor | - |
| Terrace | space.terrace | A paved exterior volume at or near ground level, furnished and used as an outdoor room. | Outdoor | - |
| Balcony | space.balcony | A cantilevered or recessed exterior volume above ground level, reached only from the room it serves. | Outdoor | - |
| Cloakroom / WC | space.wc | A small volume holding a lavatory and a basin and nothing else; add a bath or a shower and it becomes `bathroom`. | None | - |
Machine-readable
Every term on this axis is in the full dump: JSON-LD · Turtle