Forespace

Medieval architects did not prefer irregular forespaces as the settings for their works. These were the spaces they were given to work in.

In this case the living room attempts to address both the forespace or the virtual court, on the one side, and the valley-panorama on the other.

The forespaces of my bookshelves are so lined with hard remains — snail shells, clams, a turreted seashell, crinoids, coral, part of a deer pelvis, the femur of a mammal I've yet to identify — that my books are beyond my reach.

At Wollaton, Smythson moved the hall back from the façade, creating a string of forespaces to mediate between a fashionable central doorway and the customary off-center entrance to the screens.