Other
type: Concept
in scheme: space
notation: space.other
definition: The escape hatch for a space no term here reaches: a real room, identified as one, that this dictionary does not list. Never the right home for a space that deserves a term of its own.
semantic id: room.other
source basis: vendored
source: materialgraph ms_room
date: 2026-08-21
scope note: ADR 0001 section 6 gives SPACE, ELEMENT and TYPOLOGY an `other` and denies it to STYLE, PERIOD, MOOD, PALETTE and PLACE. The reason is that this is a closed-world axis: rooms are enumerable, so "identified but unlisted" is a real state worth recording. On a fuzzy open-world axis `other` is a garbage magnet that costs a classifier nothing and silently becomes the largest class. Note the distinction from the dropped `unknown`: `other` is ontological and positive, `unknown` is epistemic and maps to null.