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In a domus, a large house in ancient Roman architecture, the atrium was the open central court with enclosed rooms on all sides. In the middle of the atrium was the impluvium, a shallow pool sunken into the floor to catch rainwater from the roof. Some surviving examples are beautifully decorated.
Cavaedium or atrium are Latin names for the principal room of an ancient Roman house, which usually had a central opening in the roof and a rainwater pool beneath it. The cavaedium passively collected, filtered, stored, and cooled rainwater. It also daylit, passively cooled and passively ventilated the house.
Impluvium in the center of the atrium of the House of Menander, Pompeii. Inspection (without excavation) of impluvia in Paestum, Pompeii and Rome indicated that the pavement surface in the impluvia was porous, or that the non-porous stone tiles were separated by gaps significant enough to allow a substantial quantity of water caught in the basin of the impluvium to filter through the cracks ...
The house is based upon two magnificent colonnaded gardens or peristyles, one Ionic and the other Doric. It also has two atriums, the Tuscan and the peristyle atrium. [3] The focus of the decoration of the house, the Alexander mosaic, is placed on the central visual axis between the first and second peristyles, in a room referred to as an ...
In the stairwells of atriums A and B, original leaded glass panes designed by the painter Paul Horst-Schulze (1876–1937) are still present. While the upper floors house offices, the ground floor is entirely occupied by retail establishments, including two restaurants, many of which can also be reached, or only, via the passageways and atriums.
Guests were evacuated as the flood waters rose as high as 10 feet (3 m) in some parts of the hotel. The hotel underwent renovations and reopened November 15, 2010. Repairs and renovations to the famed hotel included the addition of five restaurants and restoration of the atriums and guest rooms. [4]
Amot Atrium Tower, a tower in Ramat Gan, Israel; Atrium, Cardiff, a University of South Wales building in Cardiff; Atrium Building, a skyscraper in Guatemala City; Atrium Casino, a casino in Dax, France
The Atrium Libertatis (Latin for "House of Freedom") was a monument of ancient Rome, the seat of the censors' archive, located on the saddle that connected the Capitolium to the Quirinal Hill, [1] a short distance from the Roman Forum.