trabeated construction limited span due to stones poor tensile strength requires a considerable amount of vertical structure
arch is the basic module for Roman arcuated construction
Pantheon, Rome, Hadrian, CE
coffered ceiling oculus What building?
Pantheon, Rome, Hadrian, CE aedicule, column, pilaster
Baths of Caracalla, Rome, Hadrian, CE
Sequence of Spaces?
Gymnasium Massage Calidarium (Hot) Tepidarium (Warm) Frigidarium (Cold) Natatio (Pool) Sequence of Spaces Dressing Rooms
Basilica Ulpia Rome, Trajan, CE large roofed hall erected for transacting business and disposing of legal matters
Nero’s Golden House, Domus Aurea, Tivoli, CE
Hadrian’s Villa Tivoli, CE
canopus (pool) Hadrian’s Villa Tivoli, CE
Hadrian’s Villa Tivoli, CE Serapeum (grotto)
cryptoporticus Hadrian’s Villa Tivoli, CE covered corridor or passageway
Hadrian’s Villa, Island Villa, Tivoli, CE
Pompeii discovered in 1738
Pompeian store fronts
House (Domus) Plan, Pompeii, before 79 AD
atrium large airy room lighted by an opening in the roof the formal room where guests were received and clients assembled to wait for their customary morning visits to their patron also a room for family occasions
vestibulum or fauces (throat)
tablinum open on two sides family records were stored elite families would display the imagines— busts of famous ancestors master of the house, the paterfamilias, would greet his many clients on their morning visits
on the upper story in the interior of the house often functioned as bedrooms small rooms off the atrium used for private meetings, libraries, etc. cubiculum
frescoes, Pompeii, before 79 CE illusions of depth illusions of nature fanciful architecture & attenuated columns
triadic color scheme—red, yellow & blue
cathedra, CE
Stone Tables, CE trestle leg monopdia
lamps, CE curule, CE
floor patterns: denote wealth tesserae: individual mosaic tiles
nave double side aisle apse
Chartres Cathedral, France, , Suger of St Denis
naveapse ambulatory transcept Chartres Cathedral, France, , Suger of St Denis
transcept Chartres Cathedral, France, , Suger of St Denis
pointed arch Chartres Cathedral, France, , Suger of St Denis
skeletal structure & infill Chartres Cathedral, France, , Suger of St Denis
buttress flying buttress
buttress flying buttress
Rose Window
Chartres Cathedral, France, , Suger of St Denis
Ste. Chapelle, Paris,
Royal Chapel, Hampton Court Palace, England, 1535
Haddon Hall, Derbyshire, England, 14th - 16th centuries
oriel double courtcrenellated roof line great hall
Haddon Hall, Plan, 14th - 16th centuries
great hall
Penshurst Place, Great Hall, Kent, England, 14th - 16th centuries
Penshurst Place, Great Hall, Kent, England, 14th - 16th centuries screen minstrel’s gallery quatrefoil brazier
trestle table
Haddon Hall long gallery, 14 th -16 th centuries
Penshurst Place, Long Gallery, England 14th - 16th centuries
Penshurst Place, Long Gallery, England 14th - 16th centuries
Oak Sideboard, England 13th - 16th centuries
Choirstall, England, 13th - 16th centuries
Cress w/ linen-fold motif, England 13th - 16th centuries
Cress w/ linen-fold motif, England 13th - 16th centuries
cruck heavy timber or half timber or “black & white”