DOMUS ROMANA
• Discite de ratione domum aedificandorum
• Aedificate suis laboribus materiaque domum
romanum.
• Demonstrate amicis et sociis aedificium vestrum
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The house is constructed around a
central axis of three major rooms:
Atrium 
Tablinum 
Peristylium/Hortus
Other rooms are to the side of these main rooms:
-Atrium  cubicula; alae; lararium; andron
- Tablinum  may be next to a triclinium
-Peristylium  culina; cublicula; exhedra; oecus; latrina;
cella servorum; cellarium; triclinium
What do I see first?
The atrium-tablinum-peristylium axis creates a good first
impression on a visitor to the domus.
Can you tell what rooms these are?
•Coming in through the fauces, you open the ianua
and see the grand atrium, with its columns and impluvium;
Through the tablinum,
you can see the many columns and
green plants of the peristylium.
Behind the pool, curtains or sliding doors
open onto the tablinum
with the paterfamilias’ work table or reading couch
Thus, the house’s MOST IMPRESSIVE rooms are
all visible from the moment you enter.
J. Paul Getty Villa
Malibu, CA
Décor: Walls
Frescoes
paintings done on wet plaster – not separate in
a picture frame, but an actual image ON the
wall
Floors:
Mosaics (images composed of hundreds of
small tiles)
Statues:
especially of one’s ancestors
(the Imagines)