What’s the structure that projects out from a building over an entrance, such as at a hospital entrance where patients can be dropped off? Architects call it a port-cochere, or literally, “coach door.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Port-Cochere”
We had a phone call from Sean Carter who said that at his office they’re kicking around a question about what you call the overhang area on a building where people can drive up and let people off and there’s a roof overhead, like at an emergency room or something like that.
And they were thinking maybe it’s called an overhang, but that didn’t sound right, or a portico.
And I didn’t know what to tell them, so I called my friend Janine, who’s an architect at Steinberg Hart here in San Diego.
And she said the term that we’re looking for is porte cochere, which is from French and literally means coach gateway or coach door.
How nice is that?
Port cochere.
Oh, architects, they have all the language, don’t they?
Yes, gorgeous language in architecture.
Port cochere sounds fancier than just porch.
