0 an area outside a house with a solid floor but no roof, used in good weather for relaxing, eating, etc. -- 院子，天井；露台，平台
Most houses formed par ts of patio groups consisting of two to four houses arranged around a patio.
The horticultural field inhabited with several patio houses.
The early network linked architectural groups that included temples, altars, range structures, colonnaded halls, patios, and gallery- patio structures.
This earlier surface was then covered by fill and capped with another patio.
Sharing ritual structures would have created and reinforced an identity held in common among the multiple families living in each patio group.
The front part would be converted into a single living space opening through the back door to the patio.
Access to the other rooms was apparently via the patio that was inevitably populated by distributing movement from space to space.
Each has a private patio and a green roof garden option.
