Townhouse Villa Second Floor

The townhouse villa second floor is in two parts separated by the garden area and open overhead. The front part is a square containing seven rooms and a balcony overlooking the atrium. This section is joined to the main floor by a stair way (ladder in the model). The after section is a second square located over the kitchen and dining rooms. This is the slave quarters and storerooms,

The front portion of the second floor is nearly finished with the exterior walls in place and all interior walls and balcony hand rail. The only things needed to complete is to cut out an area for the access to the ground floor.

The after section floor is cut and strengthened and the access hole is cut out. These two sections are now drying and when they are solid the final construction will begin.

Roman Villa #2

In response to a couple of comments:

--I probably would have selected some place on a quiet back street of Herculinum, or Pompeii but for the kind offer of the good Senator, however, the "Rustic" villa and attached farm will be somewhere fairly near to one of the above, and also to the coastline just far enough from the bustle of the city but close enough to run in to do business or buy something nice for my wife;

--Yes, I expect that living in the City of Rome would have been somewhat tumultuous and at times awkward, but it would also have been the center of commerce in the Roman World and as such almost a mandatory place in order to take advantages of the business / commercial opportunities offered to make a comfortable living.

So far, I have the plan of a townhouse of some size that was excavated in England (http:bartleby.loct.dmu.ac.uk/~dcawth00/projects/vinestreet_large.jpg)and both the large and small Amada Model Designs large and small.  I have a couple of books which deal in some degree with villa floorplans.  Finally I have a growing list of the items that I want to have in the "Townhouse" Villa.

So far, you will have seen the floor plan layout of the "Rustic" villa structure with it's four basic walls.  Remember that all of this is being done with models and drawings. I am building the "Rustic" villa first so that I will have some place to live while the "Townhouse" villa is being planned and built.  I am thinking that if I have to create the model plans as well as put it together it will take some time.

At the present time the man Marcus Audens is living in a modest apartment close by the Tiber River shipping offices below the city of Rome.  It is there that his cousin, a throughly trustworthy gentleman, handles his business for him.  However, the cousin does not have the imagination or perceptivity, on occasion, to sense certain opportunities which make the difference between moderate success, and windfall success.  I will, for the time being, remain in the apartment which is quite comfortable and reasonable in cost, in order to watch over the investments in the city and the seaport which hold the most interest for me until the "Rustic" villa is completed and furnished.  Meanwhile, I have a ship in which I have some interest abuilding on some ways nearby the Seaport. I will be visiting that vessel in the ner future and provide you a picture as soon as I return.

Respectfully;

Marcus Audens