Porte-Cochère

The covered vehicle drop-off at a building's entrance: a volume sized by a car door opening, with the weather kept off the head of whoever gets out.


Also called
None
Seen in the wild
None
Broader
Outdoor
Narrower
None
Usage
Not measured
Provenance
vendoredmaterialsinuse PROGRAM_SPACE_TYPES, read 21 Aug 2026
Status
active
Material Semantics id
space.porte-cochere
Note
AAT scopes this as the projecting roof structure that does the sheltering, which by this axis's own boundary is an element. The term here is the volume under it, so the match is `close` and not `exact` - the same catch that downgraded `landing`.

Crosswalks

External mappings and dated negative results for Porte-Cochère
SchemeIdentifierTheir label, or the searchMatch
Getty AAT300004143porte-cochèrescloseMatch