Presented By:

Ar. Sujit Prabhu,

Asst. Prof., EWSOA.
• Column shaft sits on a
base
• Column shaft is thinner
and uniform
• Columns shaft is fluted
with thicker fillets
• Usually standard 24 flutes
• Height of entablature is
shorter
• Placement of corner
column not directly unde
triglyph and not in line
with entablature
• Column shaft sits on a
base
• Scrolled volutes on
capital
• Column shaft is
thinner and uniform
• Columns shaft is fluted
with thicker fillets
• Usually standard 24
flutes
• Height of entablature
is shorter
Building Proportions
• Interior of building became important and
started to decorate.
• Mosaic is another material for decorations
and paintings.
THE OCULUS
AMPHITHEATER
Podium
20 rows of marble seat

16 rows

colonade

Wooden seats
for women

Standing room for

poorest people
Basilica of
Trajan • The basilica, known as the Basilica Ulpia, was set transversely over the full 120 m
(400 ft) width of the forum,
• Interior consist of a huge rectangular nave, 25 m (80 ft) wide, surrounded on all
sides by double colonnades (96 in total)
• Extended beyond the end colonnades by two semi circular apses with attached
orders for internal decoration.
• The main hall has a double surround of columns that were probably of white or
yellow marble, in the Corinthian order.
• There were galleries over one or both of the aisles created by the colonnades,
with a trussed timber roof over the central nave.
• The ceiling known to have been sheathed with gilded bronze roof tiles, while the
walls were covered with multi-colored marbles.
(B) - Atrium
(C) - Cubicula
(D) - Shop
(F) - Tablinum
(H) - Peristyle
(K) -Kitchen
(L) - Service Area
(M) - Paved Yard
(N) - Exedra
(O) - Corridor
(P) -Veranda
(Q) - Garden
Impluvium