By terraced houses we mean all those houses that have one or more underground floors articulated on terraces built following the natural slope of the land on which they are built. The best preserved examples are in Rome, Herculaneum and Pompeii1. At Pompeii terraced houses appear in the late 2nd century BC along the southwestern boundary, favored by the morphology of the terrain. With the defunctionalization of the city wall in the late 1st century BCE, there is the expansion of the terraces already present or the construction of new floors, made by incorporating the pomerio and reusing materials within the houses themselves. At Nos. 17-21 of Insula 2 of Regio VIII is the Sarno Complex, a six-story building that constitutes a unicum in the entire Pompeian built environment: also known as the Sarno Baths, it is precisely the thermal floor on the third lower level that makes it famous. Here, after a brief analysis of the structure of the building, we will focus on the dwellings of the Insula Occidentalis (Regio VI and Regio VII) and the Insula Meridionalis (Regio VIII, Insula II), with the intention of analyzing the solutions adopted and verifying the presence of architectural-constructive patterns.
Con case terrazzate si intendono tutte quelle case che presentano uno o più piani sotterranei articolati su terrazze costruite seguendo il pendio naturale del terreno su cui sono edificate. Gli esempi meglio conservati sono a Roma, a Ercolano e a Pompei1. A Pompei le case terrazzate compaiono alla fine del II secolo a.C. lungo il confine sud-occidentale, favorite dalla morfologia del terreno. Con la defunzionalizzazione della cinta muraria, avvenuta alla fine del I secolo a.C., si assiste all’espansione delle terrazze già presenti o alla costruzione di nuovi piani, realizzati inglobando il pomerio e riutilizzando i materiali all’interno delle abitazioni stesse. Ai civici 17-21 dell’Insula 2 della Regio VIII si trova il Complesso del Sarno, edificio a sei piani che costituisce un unicum nell’intero panorama edile pompeiano: noto anche come Terme del Sarno, è proprio il piano termale al terzo livello inferiore a renderlo famoso. In questa sede, dopo una breve analisi della struttura dell’edificio, ci si concentrerà sulle abitazioni dell’Insula Occidentalis (Regio VI e Regio VII) e dell’Insula Meridionalis (Regio VIII, Insula II), con l’intento di analizzare le soluzioni adottate e verificare la presenza di modelli architettonico-costruttivi.
Le case terrazzate dell’Insula Meridionalis (VIII, 2) e dell'Insula Occidentalis a Pompei.
FACCHIN, GIULIA
2022/2023
Abstract
By terraced houses we mean all those houses that have one or more underground floors articulated on terraces built following the natural slope of the land on which they are built. The best preserved examples are in Rome, Herculaneum and Pompeii1. At Pompeii terraced houses appear in the late 2nd century BC along the southwestern boundary, favored by the morphology of the terrain. With the defunctionalization of the city wall in the late 1st century BCE, there is the expansion of the terraces already present or the construction of new floors, made by incorporating the pomerio and reusing materials within the houses themselves. At Nos. 17-21 of Insula 2 of Regio VIII is the Sarno Complex, a six-story building that constitutes a unicum in the entire Pompeian built environment: also known as the Sarno Baths, it is precisely the thermal floor on the third lower level that makes it famous. Here, after a brief analysis of the structure of the building, we will focus on the dwellings of the Insula Occidentalis (Regio VI and Regio VII) and the Insula Meridionalis (Regio VIII, Insula II), with the intention of analyzing the solutions adopted and verifying the presence of architectural-constructive patterns.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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