The three preceding drawings are the floor plans for the model "townhouse" villa that I will be constructing in the next few days. My plans are to build each floor separately , and then put them together for a final picture. In that way, everyone will get to see each room division. The villa has a large cistern (water tank) just below the Atrium space, as well as a smaller cistern next to the bath. Since the main hypocaust will not be used as much as the bath hypocaust it made sense to put the bath separate from the main one, as well as to have a separate fuel supply.
This villa also has a well from which the water for the house could be taken. As I have indicated previously this design is taken from a Roman style house that I visited when we lived in Spain. The small city that we lived in (Puerto de Santa Maria) just across the bay from the large walled city of Cadiz, was in place and old when Columbus came to get prisoners from the prison there, so some of these stone villas have been there a very long time.
Respectfully;
Marcus Audens
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