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HOUSES IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE - Coggle Diagram
HOUSES IN THE ROMAN EMPIR
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INSULAE
THE ONLY HEATING SYSTEM WERE THE BRAZIERS
RICH OCCUPANTS HAD MIDDLE OR LOWER APARTMENTS (CENACULUM) MADE OF STONE WITH BIG AND SEVERAL ROOMS
MADE OF 4 OR 5 FLOORS, ON THE TOP THE POOR AS ROOMS WERE MADE OF WOOD
NO DRAINS, PEOPLE THREW WASTE IN THE STREETS
GROUND FLOOR ONLY SHOPS OR TAVERNS
NO BATHROOMS IN MOST OF THE INSULAE
CONSTANT RISK OF FIRE BECAUSE OF CROWDED AND HOT CITY+ MADE OF WOOD, USE OF OPEN FIRES, INFACT AUGUSTUS INVENTED THE FIRE BRIGADES
DOMUS
ATRIUM
, to receive guests(black) was called so because the room was black for the smoke of the
fire
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rooms on the front rented to traders
BACK ROOMS FOR OWNERS
TABLINUM
= study
TRICLINIUM=
LIVING ROOM
LARARIUM
, near the garden, a schrine for the family gods
PERISTYLIUM
= walled garden
IMPLUVIUM
": pool to collect rain
VESTIBULUM
= ENTRANCE HALL
HEATING SYSTEM: The
Hypocaust
system of the Romans worked using the principle of heated hot air which was generated by burning fires. A system of hollow chambers was constructed between the ground and the bottom of the rooms to be heated. Hot air that rose from the fires would flow through these chambers and heat up the rooms above