If the courtyard is too small, or an odd shape, it could make homeowners feel claustrophobic.
As soon as he was shut in, he became claustrophobic and had a panic attack.
Rents are cheap: a renovated four-bedroomed flat costs as much as a claustrophobic London studio.
Visitors enter the show by way of a claustrophobic labyrinth installation by Gregor Schneider.
He choreographs their movements around the claustrophobic house as if they are players on a stage.
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An "attitude" restaurant, with a claustrophobic town house setting, and service that is mostly condescending and surly.
Despite the spooky music and claustrophobic surroundings, the atmosphere here is more Sherlock Holmes than horror movie.
"So immediately I knew what I had to do, " says Joe who thinks he may be claustrophobic.
But "The Weimar Touch" urges viewers to discover more to the Weimar influence than long shadows and claustrophobic ambiance.
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Even the best cruises can still be daunting and claustrophobic, especially for those of us who like to move.
Visitors start in a claustrophobic room that documents Mexican history during the revolution.
The grimy, claustrophobic and cold-looking spaceship Nostromo gives way to a much brighter, more advanced-looking model which creates some issues.
The Anusan Market is less claustrophobic and filled with tables of vendors selling knitted caps, carved soaps and other cottage-industry goods.
With little furniture, no backdrops except for a few curtains, and everything painted black, the atmosphere is claustrophobic and often nightmarish.
At first, my editor wondered if it might be too claustrophobic, create too much distance between the reader and the characters.
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Working in its favor: an earth-like setting devoid of claustrophobic space ships.
The claustrophobic growth squeeze remains healthy amongst the Group of Seven (G7).
At least 15 of 33 miners have emerged from the depths of a dark, claustrophobic hole after 69 days of being trapped underground.
Meanwhile, outside of that claustrophobic feedback loop of our face and our screen, the physical systems of the earth are degraded by human activity.
This is a claustrophobic epic, set mostly inside the elaborate network of caves and tunnels that the Japanese have dug in Iwo Jima's sandy hillsides.
Quixey CEO Tomer Kagan says he wanted a room for employees to feel like they were working outside, so they would never feel too claustrophobic.
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It feels suddenly less claustrophobic and richer and plain more fun.
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The claustrophobic pressure to derive all of our satisfactions from our existing relationships would ease, as would our desire to climb ever higher in social status.
To earlier generations, escaping the claustrophobic all-knowingness of a village for the relative anonymity of the city was one of the more liberating aspects of modern life.
We followed Li into a small Chinese storefront, down a flight of stairs, and into a hot, claustrophobic hallway flanked by windowless rooms jammed with Chinese diners.
Negotiating the rubble and listening for the faintest hint of life are arduous responsibilities, while scouring the dark and claustrophobic bowels of shattered buildings is, of course, perilous.
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These domestic scenes feel "very claustrophobic, " curator Kimberly Jones says.
Mr Gayford attempts to recreate the claustrophobic atmosphere of the yellow house, with its small studio in which the two men were cooped up during the months of the mistral.
The present market of more than 300 stalls, crammed into a couple of claustrophobic floors and cluttered around the shopping centre, does draw people from as far away as Manchester.
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The low roofline and squat windows feel claustrophobic at first, but the interior is so spacious and pleasing, particularly in the extended XJL Portfolio edition, that you quickly forget about it.
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