Rooms

thumb|upright=1.2|An early-20th century Art Nouveau-style kitchen in [[Riga]]

In a building or a ship, a room is any enclosed space within a number of walls to which entry is possible only via a door or other dividing structure. The entrance connects it to either a passageway, another room, or the outdoors. The space is typically large enough for several people to move about. The size, fixtures, furnishings, and sometimes placement of the room within the building or ship (or sometimes a train) support the activity to be conducted in it.

thumb|Illustration of a bathroom from the early 20th century, in which appear a bathtub, two towels, a toilet, a [[sink and two mirrors]]

thumb|A modern Finnish sauna

thumb|upright=1.5|Midtown Manhattan in [[New York City is the largest central business district in the world, comprising over 350 million square feet of office space.]] An office is a space where the members of an organization perform administrative work in order to support and realize the various goals of the organization. The word "office" may also denote a position within an organization with specific duties attached to it (see officer or official); the latter is an earlier usage, as "office" originally referred to the location of one's duty. In its adjective form, the term "office" may ref

thumb|upright=1.2|Ladies of Caubul|Kabul (1848 lithograph, by James Rattray) showing unveiling in [[zenana areas.]]

thumb|A bedroom in Germany thumb|Bedroom in the Indian Mound Cottage at Jekyll Island A bedroom or bedchamber is a room situated within a residential or accommodation unit, primarily used for sleeping. A typical Western bedroom contains as bedroom furniture one or two beds, a clothes closet, and bedside table and dressing table, both of which usually contain drawers. In dwellings with multiple stories, bedrooms are often on the upper floors. Beds range from a crib for an infant; a single or twin bed for a toddler, child, teenager or single adult; to bigger sizes like a full, double, queen, kin

thumb|A small granary (early 19th century), Slovenia

thumb|An unfinished basement used for storage and exercise thumb|Chillon Castle (Château de Chillon) basement thumb|A former Stasi basement hallway

thumb|Attic bedroom in Skógar, [[Iceland]] thumb|The Poor Poet, by [[Carl Spitzweg, 1839 (Neue Pinakothek)]] thumb|Attic in Berlin, [[Germany]]

architectural feature

thumb|Visigoths|Visigothic crypt of Saint Antoninus [[Palencia Cathedral in Spain]] thumb|A crypt in Wola Gułowska in [[Lublin Province, Poland]] A crypt () is a stone chamber beneath the floor of a church, above ground within a cemetery’s mausoleum or a free-standing outdoor memorial tomb. It typically contains coffins, sarcophagi, or religious relics and sometimes cremation urns.

thumb|Sacristy with a sacristy credens (a cabinet with wide and very shallow drawers in which vestments and hangings are stored). A chasuble and stole are laid out on top of it, ready to be put on. A sacristy, also known as a vestry or preparation room, is a room in Christian churches for the keeping of vestments (such as the alb and chasuble) and other church furnishings, sacred vessels, and parish records.

thumb|In the Studio, by Marie Bashkirtseff, 1881, oil on canvas, [[Dnipro State Art Museum, Dnipro, Ukraine]]

rooms in private houses or public establishments in which dinner and other principal meals are taken and which are furnished for this purpose

room in a residential house for relaxing and socializing

thumb|A corporate office's cafeteria in Bengaluru, India, December 2003. A cafeteria, called canteen outside North America, is a type of food service location in which there is no waiting staff table service. Cafeterias are different from coffeehouses, although the English term came from the Spanish term cafetería, which carries the same meaning.

A classroom, schoolroom or lecture room is a learning space in which both children and adults learn. Classrooms are found in educational institutions of all kinds, ranging from preschools to universities, and may also be found in other places where education or training is provided, such as corporations and religious and humanitarian organizations. The classroom provides a space where learning can take place uninterrupted by outside distractions.

thumb|Cross-section of the Pantheon's rotunda.

thumb|A contemporary kitchen pantry

right|thumb|The dungeons of Blarney Castle, Ireland A dungeon is a room or cell in which prisoners are held, especially underground. Dungeons are generally associated with medieval castles, though their association with torture probably derives more from the Renaissance period. An oubliette (from the French , meaning 'to forget') or bottle dungeon is a basement room which is accessible only from a hatch or hole (an angstloch) in a high ceiling.

thumb|Prayer hall of the Mosque of Uqba|Great Mosque of Kairouan, in [[Kairouan, Tunisia]] In architecture, a hall is a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls. In the Iron Age and the Early Middle Ages in northern Europe, a mead hall was where a lord and his retainers ate and also slept. Later in the Middle Ages, the great hall was the largest room in castles and large houses, and where the servants usually slept. As more complex house plans developed, the hall remained a large room for dancing and large feasts, often still with servants sleeping there. It was usually immediately

thumb|Hallway in Luhrs Tower, 1929 office building in [[Phoenix, Arizona]] right|thumb|Corridor inside a Government Medical College in Kollam, [[India]]

anteroom (antechamber) or small foyer leading into a larger space

300px|thumb|right|The refectory of the Convent of Christ (Tomar)|Convent of Christ in [[Tomar, Portugal]]

thumb|upright=1.5|Bowl with a scene by a pond, signed by Abu Zayd al-Kashani in 1187, [[Seljuk Empire, Iran.]] '''''' is an Arabic term meaning 'sitting room'. It is used to describe various types of special gatherings among common interest groups of administrative, social or religious nature in countries with linguistic or cultural connections to the Muslim world. can refer to a legislature as well and is used in the name of legislative councils or assemblies in some states.

thumb|300px|right|The Pinacoteca di Brera in [[Milan.]] A pinacotheca (Latin borrowing from = + ) was a picture gallery in either ancient Greece or ancient Rome. The name is specifically used for the building containing pictures which formed the left wing of the Propylaea on the Acropolis at Athens, Greece. Though Pausanias speaks of the pictures "which time had not effaced", which seems to point to fresco painting, the fact that there is no trace of preparation for stucco on the walls implies that the paintings were easel pictures. The Romans adopted the term for the room in a private house c

thumb|right|Schematic plan of a megaron complex. 1: anteroom, 2: hall (main room), 3: columns in portico and hall. thumb|right|Foundation of the megaron complex at Mycenae, view from the main hall (circular hearth visible in foreground) through the anteroom and porch The megaron (; , , : megara ) was the great hall in very early Mycenean and ancient Greek palace complexes. Architecturally, it was a rectangular hall that was supported by four columns, fronted by an open, two-columned portico, and had a central, open hearth that vented though an oculus in the roof.

upper part of a construction, placed above an entablature or cornice

thumb|right|A former warehouse for printing presses converted to a loft apartment on Chicago's Near West Side thumb|A US-style loft; the additional story covers only a few rooms, leaving one or more sides open to the lower floor thumb|Alto de Santana, São Paulo, Brazil.

storage room for wine, often dark and with near constant temperature and moisture

320px|thumb|right| Entrance to a cleanroom with no air shower thumb|right| Cleanroom used for the production of microsystems. The yellow (red-green) lighting is necessary for [[photolithography, to prevent unwanted exposure of photoresist to light of shorter wavelengths.]] thumb|right| Cleanroom from outside thumb|right| Cleanroom for microelectronics manufacturing with [[fan filter units installed in the ceiling grid]] thumb|right| Cleanroom cabin for precision measuring tools thumb| Typical cleanroom head garment

room in a building used for entry from the outside

thumb|Fatihova Musalla thumb|Muslim prayer section (musalla) at Hong Kong International Airport

type of long, narrow room

right|thumb|230px|Caldarium from the Roman baths at Bath, Somerset|Bath, England. The floor has been removed to reveal the empty space where the hot air flowed through to heat the floor.

toilet and washroom for anyone to use

thumb|right|250px| The circular frigidarium, Roman Baths (Bath), England A frigidarium is one of the three main bath chambers of a Roman bath or thermae, namely the cold room. It often contains a swimming pool.

300px|thumb|right|A darkroom in Union City High School (New Jersey)|Union City High School, which is adjacent to the school's photography classroom thumb|right|In the darkroom

room used to wash laundry, often also equipped for drying, folding and repairing clothes

thumb|Tepidarium in the Forum Thermae at Pompeii thumb|Tepidarium (painting)|Tepidarium by [[Théodore Chassériau, 1853]] thumb|The Tepidarium by [[Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1881]] The tepidarium was the warm (tepidus) bathroom of the Roman baths heated by a hypocaust or underfloor heating system. The speciality of a tepidarium is the pleasant feeling of constant radiant heat, which directly affects the human body from the walls and floor.

thumb|250px|Reproduction of a triclinium A triclinium (: triclinia) is a formal dining room in a Roman building. The word is adopted from the Greek ()—from (), "three", and (), a sort of couch, or rather chaise longue. Each couch was sized to accommodate a diner who reclined on their left side on cushions while some household slaves served multiple courses brought from the culina, or kitchen, and others entertained guests with music, song, or dance.

room in a house where visitors may be entertained

technical room for sound recording or research

room where you can change your clothes

small room used by a hermit, monk, anchorite or nun to live and as a devotional space

small room in a prison or police station where a prisoner is held

thumb|200px|right|A Rococo Revival|neo-rococo decor boudoir in [[Nieborów Palace, Poland.]]

thumb|right|200px|Plan of a temple with opisthodomos highlighted.

thumb|right|A sunroom in Hatoyama Hall, [[Tokyo, Japan]]

indoor-area where people can wait for an appointment, train, plane, bus, etc.

thumb|right|280 px|An airlock on board Space Shuttle Atlantis

room in a house dedicated for work, like paperwork, computer work, or reading

thumb|An open built-in closet A closet (especially in North American English usage) is an enclosed space, with a door, used for storage, particularly that of clothes. Fitted closets are built into the walls of the house so that they take up no apparent space in the room. Closets are often built under stairs, thereby using awkward space that would otherwise go unused.

hall designed for anatomical dissection

waiting area for premium passengers at airports with extra facilities

thumb|The auditorium of the Vienna State Opera thumb|A typical movie theater auditorium

thumb|right|Cryptoporticus of Nero|Emperor Nero at [[Domus Transitoria, Palatine Hill]] In Ancient Roman architecture a cryptoporticus (from Latin crypta and porticus) is a covered corridor or passageway. The usual English is "cryptoportico". The cryptoportico is a semi-subterranean gallery whose vaulting supports portico structures aboveground and which is lit from openings at the tops of its arches.

thumb|260px|Apodyterium at Herculaneum#Central Thermae|Central Thermae (Herculaneum) – men's sector In ancient Rome, the apodyterium (from , "undressing room") was the primary entry in the public baths, composed of a large changing room with cubicles or shelves where citizens could store clothing and other belongings while bathing.

facility that manages aerospace vehicle flights