island of Capri. The inside of the villa was wonderfully open and light. When entering from the street, guests were greeted in an open room called the atrium. The atrium was a large and spacious room with a pool of water called the impluvium in the middle. The impluvium was directly underneath a rectangula... ... middle of paper ... ... from the balcony, and long central rooms for entertaining guests. One insula housed thirty to fifty people and there were about 42,000 to 46,000 insula in Rome
Roman Houses Roman houses evolved from the thatched-roof huts of the original roman civilization to the great villas of the late empire. Roman houses were not only built in Italy. There were Roman houses built in Greece, Africa, and Britain. Roman houses were one story high, the villas of the wealthy were sometimes two. Walls were built of cement covered in stucco or sun-dried bricks which were commonly used until the beginning of the first century B.C. Although the concrete walls were weatherproof
Dwellings: The most distinguishing feature of Roman family city dwellings, or domus, was the atrium. The atrium was distinguished by an open area in the roof that not only let in light and air, but also served as an opening to collect rain water into the impluvium, a collection pool, which functioned as the primary source of water in the home and lay in the floor beneath the opening (Fife, 2012, para.4). Additionally, atriums were used as a meeting place for guests and to display art and wealth, with mosaics
The Roman architecture had great importance in the medieval history. Such historical spread of Roman architecture influenced the worldwide works of civil genius. So, the insertion of the new innovations through the Roman architectural styles, which were in great part From the Greece architecture, one more time, contributed largely to enhance the influence of the Mediterranean architecture over the world. Among the used materials, it would seem that there were the Arch and the Concrete which greatly
courtyard, a cistern is an underground reservoir where rainwater is stored (149). Falling rain would be caught in the compluvium, a channel that surrounds the hole in the roof above the atrium in a home; the rain would then pour through spouts into the impluvium, where it would be routed to the cistern. Rainwater could also reach the cistern by rolling from the ... ... middle of paper ... ... Private Toilets at Pompeii: Appearance and Operation." Sequence and Space in Pompeii. Ed. Sara E. Bon and Rick
fertility, and a painting of a sheep with the characteristics of Mercury, the god of commerce, on the adjacent wall. These paintings displayed the wealth and prosperity of the householders. (Guzzo: 60) The atrium has other typical features, like the impluvium, and includes two moneyboxes on the left and right, filled with valuables. (Brion, 1960: 146) A unique feature of the house is the absence of a tablinum. The tablinum served as the main reception room where the masters of many houses would