Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Components (hierarchy name)
4. components (objects parts)
5. [components by specific context]
6. building divisions

Narrower term/s

• attics (exterior stories)
• clerestories
• mezzanines
• piani nobili
• triforiums
• basements[+]
  • English basements
  • partial basements
• subbasements
• tribunes (stories)
• tala
• āditala (architecture)
• bhūmi
• uparitala

Anotations

Scope note:

Horizontal stages or levels of a building positioned one above the other and having a habitable or usable room or set of rooms on each level. The term may also refer to horizontal divisions of the exteriors of buildings that typically, but not always, correspond to the levels of interior spaces; exterior indications of stories include tiers or rows of orders, columns, window mullions, or other features disposed horizontally one above another.