{"id":17865,"date":"2019-03-06T12:05:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T20:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17865"},"modified":"2019-03-06T12:05:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T20:05:38","slug":"usage-question-atrium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2019\/03\/06\/usage-question-atrium\/","title":{"rendered":"Usage question: atrium"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>So, a usage question:\r\n<p>The building in which I work has an entrance area that is open to the top of the building, three stories up. There are windows (mostly small) on that top level (along the lines of a clerestory) and a wood-panel ceiling.\r\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/2019-03-06-14.07.18-HDR-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"An entrance area that is open to the top of the building, three stories up. There are windows (mostly small) on that top level (along the lines of a clerestory) and a wood-panel ceiling.\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17866\" \/>\r\n<p>If someone referred to this area as the <I>atrium<\/i>, would you find that jarring? If it would, what makes this area not an atrium? Do you only use <I>atrium<\/i> for areas with skylights? Does an <I>atrium<\/i> need to be central to the building, rather than in the entrance?\r\n<p>I bring this up because the first few times someone called it an <I>atrium<\/i>, it definitely sounded wrong, but today someone referred to it as a <I>rotunda<\/i> and suddenly <I>atrium<\/i> doesn\u2019t seem so far off.\r\n<p>Thanks,<br>-Ed.\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t ask an architect, I&#8217;m more curious how you use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-specific-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17865"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17869,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17865\/revisions\/17869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}