Roman Insula Floor Plan
An insula dating from the early 2nd century a d.
Roman insula floor plan. An insula housed most of the urban citizen population of ancient rome including ordinary people of lower or middle class status the plebs and all but the wealthiest from. Roman tenements were called insulae or islands because they occupied whole blocks with the roads flowing around them like water around an island. Part 1 of ruins in modern imagination. The forum romanum and archaeological context.
The insulae often consisting of six to eight apartment blocks built around a staircase and central courtyard housed poor workers who couldn t afford a traditional domus or house. Landlords would rent out the very bottom. In the classic layout of the roman domus the atrium served as the focus of the entire house plan as the main room in the public part of the house pars urbana the atrium was the center of the house s social and political life the male head of household paterfamilias would receive his clients on business days in the atrium in which case it functioned as a sort of waiting room for. The roman forum part ii.
Atrium cubiculum culina exedra peristylium taberna tablinum triclinium vestibulum. Views of past and present. Forum romanum the roman forum the roman forum. This reconstructed model of the house of the tragic poet in pompeii shows the exterior of the house from the front the back and one side.
In roman architecture an insula latin for island plural insulae was a kind of apartment building that housed most of the urban citizen population of ancient rome including ordinary people of lower or middle class status the plebs and all but the wealthiest from the upper middle class the equites. Part 1 of ruins in modern imagination. In roman architecture an insula latin for island plural insulae was one of two things. Either a kind of apartment building or a city block this article deals with the former definition that of a type of building.
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