What does patio mean

The patio is an architectural term for the open air space enclosed between rooms or between rooms and walls in a mansion.

The patio is the open air space enclosed between houses or between houses and walls in a mansion. That is, there are houses on all sides, three sides of the house and the other side of the wall or two sides of the house and the other two sides of the wall in the middle of the open space. The word "patio" comes from the canonical books, originally refers to the terrain of the surrounding high, low in the center.

For example, Sun Tzu's Art of War says, "Where there is an extinct stream, a well in the sky, a jail in the sky, a heavenly prison, a heavenly trap, a heavenly trap, a heavenly trap must be witch to go, do not approach it." As a form of architectural space, the "patio" is commonly found in traditional Chinese houses from the Ming and Qing dynasties to the present. There is no trace of when the "patio" was first created. However, as the ground-level houses with wooden bones and mud walls were born from cave dwellings, the "well space" in the house evolved from the "pit well" in the cave dwellings, which logically should be the "patio".

Definition of the well

1, according to ancient geography

According to ancient geography, the well in the terrain refers to the vertical well. Sun Tzu "marching chapter," "Where the land has the absolute stream, the well, the sky trap, the gap in the sky, must urgently go, do not approach also." Note Tianjing is a large natural well with steep slopes on all sides to which streams return.

2, from the philosophical point of view

According to Kant's "cognitive pattern" and Piaget's constructivism, it can be argued that the patio and the courtyard is a pattern isomorphism.

3, according to the material composition of the classification distinction between the door, skylight and patio

The door of the roof of the sloping roof between the eaves of the seam, narrow open parts, used for the roof or Xuanpeng ventilation and light.

The skylight-roof tiles are replaced with bright tiles (mica flakes, thinly ground shells, etc., and later curved glass), which are surrounded by a conical wall below the bright tiles, so that the light from the roof shines into the room.