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vr.tr.floor-artifact · thing-floor-artifact
Let an agent explain building floors and their numbering conventions, help navigate buildings and addresses, and explain related safety and accessibility rules.
Thing Registry Physical world and living systems PHY.OBJ
Bundle → Layer → Finding → QuestionsClassifiersWhat it isWhy it existsDistinguishing featuresWhat robots and AI may and may not doMoral aspectsOwnersLinks to other meta-modelsIdentity and identifiersDirect propertiesRecognitionCapabilities and actionsHazards and failure modesStandards and interfacesContext of useSources
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Numbering Conventions.
Convention
Which system.
Convention
Conventions.
- Does this country count the ground floor as zero or one? provenance
- How are basements and mezzanines numbered? provenance
Omitted
Skipped numbers.
Omitted
Skipped numbers.
- Are floor numbers such as 13 or 4 skipped for cultural reasons here? provenance
- How does that affect the actual level? boundary
Navigate Finding a floor.
Address
Floor in addresses.
Address
Addresses.
- Which floor does this address or apartment code indicate? definition
- How is it written in this country? provenance
Access
Reaching the floor.
Access
Access.
- Is the floor accessible by lift, and are there step-free routes? provenance
- Which doors are locked or restricted? provenance
Types Kinds of level.
Below
Basements and cellars.
Below
Below ground.
- What distinguishes a basement, cellar and crawl space? definition
- Which rules apply to habitable basements? provenance
Above
Attics and lofts.
Above
Above.
- What distinguishes an attic, loft and cockloft? definition
- Can a loft be converted to living space, and what rules apply? provenance
Safety Safety rules.
Fire
Evacuation.
Fire
Fire safety.
- Which fire safety and evacuation rules apply to this floor? provenance
- Is there a fire or emergency now? boundary
Senses
Disambiguation.
Senses
Other senses.
- Is the floor surface, a trading floor or a floor in the sense of a lower limit meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- noun.artifact
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.OBJ
- Tags
- artifactstructure
- Facets: substance
- material
- Facets: origin
- manufactured
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- fixed
- Facets: scale
- built
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- artist's loft, basement, cellar, cellarage, cockloft, level, storey, story, ground floor, first floor, ground level, hayloft
What it is Filled
A level of a building consisting of a room or set of rooms at one position along its height, such as the ground floor, first floor, basement, cellar, attic or loft; floors are numbered differently by country, and building codes govern their construction, access and safety.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain building floors and their numbering conventions, help navigate buildings and addresses, and explain related safety and accessibility rules.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Level of a building
- Numbered by convention
- Includes basements and attics
- Governed by codes
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Send people to a floor that is closed, unsafe or being evacuated.
- Overload a floor beyond its rated load with goods or equipment it moves.
- Lock or block stairs and exits between floors.
- Share floor plans of private homes or secure buildings beyond their audience.
Only with a human decision
- Evacuating a floor or restricting access to it.
- Converting a basement, attic or loft for people to live or sleep in.
May
- Describe a building's floors, their use and access from plans the owner has shared.
- Guide people to the right floor and report lifts, stairs or exits that are blocked.
Moral aspects Filled
- Basements and attics used as dwellings can trap occupants in fires and floods.
- Step-free access between floors decides whether disabled people can use a building.
Who is affected
- Occupants and visitors
- Disabled people
- Emergency responders
Owners Filled
Steward
The owner of the building; occupants control everyday use.
Master systems
- Land registry or cadastre
- Building permit records
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-04348764-n - registry parent class
related
- building part - category
- building - whole
- housing - residential buildings
- floor surface - other sense
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.floor-artifact
- Open English WordNet: oewn-03370837-n
Direct properties required Filled
- Floor area: m2 - Floor area is measured from surveyed boundaries using a stated convention for including walls, openings and shared spaces.
- Floor elevation: m - Floor elevation is measured vertically from a stated building or survey datum to the finished floor surface.
- Clear height: m - Clear height is measured vertically from the finished floor surface to the ceiling or lowest overhead obstruction at a stated location.
Recognition required Filled
- Numbered levels on signs and lifts
- Ground and first floor conventions differ
- The floor surface itself is a separate sense
- Levels of a building separated by floor structures, reached by stairs or lifts.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain floor numbering conventions
- identify a floor from an address or sign
- explain basement, attic and loft distinctions
- explain floor-related safety and access rules
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Floor numbering confusion
- Fire and evacuation risks on upper floors
- Inaccessible upper floors
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Building codes on storeys and height
- Fire safety rules by floor
- Accessibility standards for lifts and stairs
Context of use required Filled
- Organising and navigating buildings vertically.
- ground and upper floors
- basements and cellars
- attics, lofts and cocklofts
- mezzanines
- floors in numbering conventions
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-03370837-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: floor - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Should numbering conventions be a separate entry?
- How should building codes be linked?
- How should the surface sense be split?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-floor-artifact/spec.json