Field guide No. 564

Peering over a brick ledge into a deep courtyard, tiers of porches, doors and pot plants run down on every side to a square of blue sky and cloud at the bottom. The neighbours are all upstairs, downstairs.

Inverted courtyard of skyward porches

Look down. That's the sky.

Peering over a brick ledge into a deep courtyard, tiers of porches, doors and pot plants run down on every side to a square of blue sky and cloud at the bottom. The neighbours are all upstairs, downstairs.

Field noteCourtyards end in a floor. This one ends, at the bottom, in open sky.

Specimen
No. 564
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
Tiered porches round a well.
Nearest existing relative
A light well.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Spaces

Also possible, also breaking physics