Well, we are on our way with the basement finished. The rectangular shape of the house is taken from a similar building in the suburbs of the city of Pompeii which has been completely excavated and explained in detail. It was built on a rectangular lot between corners on a residential street.
As indicated on the previous floor plan provided, there are two hypocausts, one to heat the major living portion of the house, and one to heat the dining area. The storerooms are provided essentially for both food and fuel storage as well as the inevitable brick-a-brac collected in a house being constructed. The piping from the main cistern under the atrium would have been clay pipe buried in a trench cut into the ground under the house. The piping for the toilet is not shown, but would have led into a common waste reservoir of some kind. The well has been moved from the atrium, since in my view, it was simply too far to walk to the kitchen, and getting water from a well is not what I wanted to see in that part of the house. I could have put it even closer but it gets the kitchen slaves out of the atrium, which was the primary reason for the design.
Essentially the second or ground floor will be the living section of the house while the upstairs of the house will mostly be devoted to bedrooms.
Respectfully Submitted;
Marcus Audens
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