Amphitheatres Research Paper

The beginning of Amphitheatres dates back thousands of years. An amphitheatre was a structure built throughout the Roman Empire. It was the focal point of entertainment, where citizens could go and watch spectacles such as gladiator games, animal hunts, and public executions. Many of them are still in use today, hosting events such as gladiator reenactments and opera shows. The Colosseum, which opened in 80 AD, is the world’s most famous amphitheatre. It became known for its unusual design and architecture, including decorative entrances, many arched entrances, vaulted seating, a protective wall for spectators, and underground rooms. The rest of the empire used it as an inspiration for later amphitheaters. The Arles Amphitheatre is another

However, the lower attic story is completely gone today. These arches were mocked from the Colosseum, which had a total of 80 arches on each floor. Arles had 120 arches total, 60 external arches on each facade level made of cut stone. The ground-floor arcade has Tuscan pilasters and the first-floor arcade had Corinthian style pilasters. The corinthian is a pilar that incorporates leaves at the top, while Tuscan pillars is a simple style that has a few carvings at the type. The facade walls were made of Roman concrete faced with small, roughly squared cut stone altering with courses of brick. The only problem with this technique was that the concrete struggled to take a defined molding. Inside the facade, a covered gallery ran around the perimeter of the building on both the ground floor and first floor. Spectators walking on the ground floor gallery could see Roman numerals on the piers, these numerals were displayed as well in the Colosseum being intended to help spectators find their seats. But in the Arles Amphitheatre, they were used to indicate the number of pier during construction. The Colosseum was also the first structure to incorporate a good drainage system, which was also recreated in the Arles Amphitheatre. There was terrace system built into Arles that was used to collect the rain and protect the performers and

Working with ovals has many advantages; they are easier to lay out, so they are less error-prone and parallels could be easily accurately drawn. The laying out of seating in the Ampthiteatre was created by drawing parallels to the arena.The building had a podium containing four tiers of seating, divided into different zones by cross walls. There was a series of stairways that lead to its 34 rows of seating, making it easy for the building to be emptied and filled in an efficient amount of time- similar to the Colosseum. The seating was divided by class and there were boxes where the most honored audience members would sit. The podium formed a line of safety for the audience members. It was 3m vertical drop of a stone wall down the surface of the arena. There is an inscription on the structures minor axis and says that Julius caesar paid for the repairs of this podium and kept it in a good state. The show the towns appreciation for his gift, they reserved seating for the boatmen and shipowners of the town. This was important because boatmen and shipowners were an essential element of the prosperity in Arles. There are series of potholes spaced around the perimeter of the arena at a depth of 5.2m. They are evidence for a continuous timber flooring at this level. It is believed that beneath this flooring was an area to supply equipment needed for the