Lacertus Posted April 27, 2005 Report Share Posted April 27, 2005 What was a hight of buildings in Rome? I read about 6-8 floor houses. In what time did Rome begin grow to hight? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeke Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 Octavian limited the buliding of all apartments in Rome to five stories to pervent fire. Zeke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Regulus Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 Octavian was a little late because many of the slum areas had eight or nine story buildings, but they would often colapse from overcrowding. Later the height of buildings was indeed limited to correct this problem -- stone and wood is no match for steel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost_Warrior Posted April 29, 2005 Report Share Posted April 29, 2005 Limiting the height was a good idea. It wouldn't have prevented fire, but it would have made it easier to control and maybe prevented spreading of it. They didn't have equipment like we do now, so they had to make do... Stone, I would think, would actually be pretty sturdy. Wood would be bad, I could see that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacertus Posted April 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2005 It is interesting, is there anything information on reliability of a constructions of these houses? I don't think, that they were build forever. May be there is some informations from ancient authors? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carla Posted May 1, 2005 Report Share Posted May 1, 2005 Nero also limited the number of residential buildings in Rome as the houses were too crammed and the risk of fire due to the nature and materials used was huge. The height of the basilicus was around two stories high supported by columns, just to give another standard for comparison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeke Posted May 4, 2005 Report Share Posted May 4, 2005 Well what about the palaces??? THose vast monsters how high were there??? Zeke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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