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In Roman architecture, an insula (Latin for "island", pl.: insulae) was one of two things: either a kind of apartment building, or a city block. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This article deals with the former definition, that of a type of apartment building.
Reconstructed plan of Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, Cologne, Germany Plan of Calleva Atrebatum. The Latin word insula (lit. ' island '; pl.: insulae) was used in Roman cities to mean either a city block in a city plan (i.e. a building area surrounded by four streets) [1] or later a type of apartment building that occupied such a city block specifically in Rome and nearby Ostia.
Insulae have been the subject of debate for historians of Roman culture, defining the various meanings of the word. [44] Insula was a word used to describe apartment buildings, or the apartments themselves, [ 45 ] meaning apartment, or inhabitable room, demonstrating just how small apartments for plebeians were.
A grid of streets laid out at right angles resulted in insulae between 70 and 100 meters wide and a length of mostly 100 meters. In the core area the layout was more regular, while with the growth of the city in the 1st and 2nd century in the outskirts the layout varied and occasionally several insulae were combined into one long rectangular ...
The Insula dell'Ara Coeli is one of the few surviving examples of an insula, the kind of apartment blocks where many Roman city dwellers resided. [1] It was built during the 2nd century AD, and rediscovered, under an old church, when Benito Mussolini initiated a plan for massive urban renewal of Rome's historic Capitoline Hill neighbourhood.
In the south, the apse building from construction phase I was replaced by a large hall, the so-called Aula regia or palace hall, the apse of which was approximately 15 m in diameter. In total, the praetorium in this construction phase extended over the area of four insulae and therefore probably took up almost 40,000 m². At an unclear point in ...
Insula is the Latin word for "island" and may refer to: . Insula (Roman city), a block in a Roman city plan surrounded by four streets Insula (building), a kind of apartment building in ancient Rome that provided housing for all but the elite
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