Building Term

[ealdthryth]

Hey, greta_k, maybe you can help with this one!

A pastor from a local church called to ask what the word is for the "canopy" that cars drive under to let people out in front of a building. He didn't say why he wanted to know. I came up with portico, but the definition doesn't quite fit. The online thesaurus didn't help. The Visual Dictionary of Buildings

Comments

[luciab]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porte-cochere

[greta_k]

The Raleigh architect is correct :-)

Unfortunately, I can't get my computer to insert the proper accent marks.

[ealdthryth]

Thanks. That's perfect. I'm so used to you being in library school that I forgot you were an architect too. :-)

[greta_k]

A protico is for foot traffic. A porte-cochere is for car (or, in times past, carriage) access.

[ealdthryth]

I thought a portico was a fancy porch. I wasn't too far off. I'm curious about why he asked. He turned me over to someone else after the initial question. Maybe they are adding on to the church?