Pompeii Residential Architecture
Mist of the houses in Pompeii are single story but some late buildings were Two stories. On the lower level it might be open to the street - may be a shop. On the top level there was paramic pictuire windows - vistas were very important - had a very greek influence The earliest residential building were from the Samnite period - some were substantial houses
Domas italica - ideal roman house plan - Vitruvius.
Facase Thraot of the house the entrance vestriguam - eaves over the door. There are two celli off the Facase. They could be shops terverni, leased out. These leads to the Atrium (or meeting room). We think of houses as escapes from the real world. In Roman times it would be a place to do business - a very public part of the house. The inproblium Pool is in the center of the atrium conprovium where rain water was be caught
The cobluical are the bedrooms of the house - very small dark places to sleep
The wings or alli of the house - The pace where they kept the wooden shrines of the ancestors - with wooden doors with pictures and other mementoes of the dead relatives. Include a look a like mask which a family member wold put on on days where they would remember them
Tabliunum - master bedroom - where archives are kept - almost a passageway. The dining room the triclinium which is also off the atrium. The garden the hortis which was open to the sky. The geometrical. Very few windows. This is the case at the beginning but this changes over time.
The House of the Surgeon and House of Salis
3rd c BC Conforms to the ideal to the Domas Italica. One cell is closed and one open to the street for a shop. Atrium etc
In the House of the Salis was renovated when the Samnites were kicked out. It has a cell for one of the fast food stands
2nd C they start to resemble greek architecture - Hellenised Domas - Greek elements. Vestibulum vestibule. The cells are not opens ed up. The atrium bedroom wings and etc . The core is very much the same. But under the influence of greek the place greek columns and a garden which is more properly called peristyle. Then additional bedroom looking over the garden plus two additional dining rooms. Columns added to the front to show that this is a very cultured individual. But still stark and plain with few windows
e.g. House of the Vettii brothers.
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e.g. House of the Silver Wedding Atrium has four columns in it. A banqueting hall. large opening to the peristyle garden. Oecus (principal hall) most important room in the house. They tried to stucco the columns to make them more greek (tetra style means four columns. Used Porphyry like painted wall
House of the faun. Very large - twice the size if the house of the Vettii. Follows the hellenized doams type. Two peristyle courts. One small am ne very large room. Has a famous moisaic of the Alexander the GreatCopy of the great painting - See Naples museum. Entrance way has a pilaster with the a corinthian capital. Painted with stone style painting. Implovium has a dancing faun statue
A restored version would look very bright and colorful with first style wall painting. It has two atria tetra style. Tufa stone made to look Greek
