forespace

plural forespaces

1. Any space or area positioned toward the front (e.g. of a room, building, plot, landscape, scenery, etc.); foreground

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

   1965, Paul D. Spreiregen, Urban Design, the Architecture of Towns and Cities

   3 more examples

   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.

   1993, David Whitney, Jeffrey Kipnis, Philip Johnson: the Glass House

   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.

   1996, Lisa Knopp, Field of Vision

   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.

   2007, Lena Cowen Orlin, Locating Privacy in Tudor London