HOUSING

__//Red- Clark Waskowitz//__ __//Blue- Daniel Sauers//__ //__Green- Lindsay Finn__// = __//Wealthy Housing//__ = = = Houses for rich were very well built and sturdy. Rich people had one story houses with an atrium, courtyard, gardens, wings, halls, Upper class had art and decorations like mosaics or statues. Wealthy Roman houses were built around the same basic configuration which consisted of 15 different rooms/areas. The vestibulum was a small passageway that lead to the streat. A small corridor called the fauces connected this passageway to the atrium, the luxurious main room which commonly contained an area for worship. In many houses, the atrium had open areas in the roof, or sometimes no roof at all. The posticum was a side entrance used by slaves, servants, and others who needed a low-profile departure. The tablinum was the front reception area, which sometimes served as a study for the paterfamilias. Houses sometimes contained alae, small rooms on the sides of the atrium whose use is relatively unknown except for letting light through their large windows. The triclinium was the dining room, and in especially lavish houses there were several triclinia to allow different dining options. The peristylium, connected to the atrium by a small passageway called the andron, was a gardening area that also provided outdoor dining on sunny days. The exhedra was a leisurely dining area and family room. The oecus seems to have played the same role as the exhedra, but in addition sported columns around the edges. The cubiculum was a bedroom. There were obviously several in each house, many of which had elaborately decorated mosaic floors. The taberna were small rooms surrounding the atrium that did not connect to the other rooms, which usually served as housing for poor clients of the rich family.

[] [] [] The wealthy class lived very differently than the lower classes. They lived in nice homes and sometimes had two homes, one in the city and one in the rural country areas used for vacation. The houses were all based around a central courtyard called the atrium. All of the rooms would be placed around the atrium, which usually had an open topped roof so that sunlight and rain could get through. The houses would contain a dining room/party room, a garden, a temple, the atrium, toilet(s), a kitchen, a private bath, a bedroom(s), and perhaps an office. The houses had very few windows to prevent burglaries. The houses also faced inward as a way of central heating called hypocaust. The hypocaust featured a special fire room, hollow walls, and floors raised on pillars. These features allowed the warm air to travel through the walls and under the floor, circulating hot air through the house. The roman houses were decorated with mosaics called tesserae.

[] [] =__//Poor Housing//__= Poor had flats or apartments to live in. Poor people didn't spend much time in their flats because the cooking in them wasnt safe. Plebians lived in the flats with all of their family. The lower classes lived in apartments called flats that tended to be above or behind the owners' shops. These apartments would be crammed with whole families(Grandparents, children, pants,etc.) and did not have running water. The residents would have to use public facilities and baths for personal sanitation. Almost all flats were made of wood and were very close together making the risk for fires very high. The poorest classes lived in the slums which was the very rundown, filthy parts of town. [] In Rome, housing for the poor was still acceptable. A poor roman citizen would usually live in a insulae, which is a flat or apartment. Usually a flat would have two connecting rooms. Also unlike the rich who had water pumped to them the poor did not. They would have to go to a local water fountain and fill up buckets to bring back home. [] []