De Martino, G.; Di Ludovico, M.; Dessales, H.; Prota, A. Interdisciplinary Analysis of Roman Floor Types in the Villa of Diomedes in the Archaeological Park of Pompeii. Heritage2023, 6, 5559-5582.
De Martino, G.; Di Ludovico, M.; Dessales, H.; Prota, A. Interdisciplinary Analysis of Roman Floor Types in the Villa of Diomedes in the Archaeological Park of Pompeii. Heritage 2023, 6, 5559-5582.
De Martino, G.; Di Ludovico, M.; Dessales, H.; Prota, A. Interdisciplinary Analysis of Roman Floor Types in the Villa of Diomedes in the Archaeological Park of Pompeii. Heritage2023, 6, 5559-5582.
De Martino, G.; Di Ludovico, M.; Dessales, H.; Prota, A. Interdisciplinary Analysis of Roman Floor Types in the Villa of Diomedes in the Archaeological Park of Pompeii. Heritage 2023, 6, 5559-5582.
Abstract
The present work presents and discusses an analysis of the floor types of Villa of Diomedes (Pompeii archaeological park in the Campania region, Italy) both from architectural, archaeological, and structural point of view. In particular, the geometrical structural parameters of different floor types and the rules used by ancient builders to design them are investigated by means of interdisciplinary research. Link between structural-based assumptions, archival sources, geometric survey, in situ visual inspections and the archaeological information make it possible to define the geometrical structural parameters of eleven-barrel vaults, three wooden floors and three sloped wooden roofs (buried and collapsed during the Vesuvius eruption). A specific study of the barrel vaults is presented to investigate the relationships between the main vaults’ structural parameter. Furthermore, a comparison between the vaults’ dimensions obtained from surveys and those produced by the literature formulations from the 15th to the 20th centuries concerning masonry-vault designs is presented and discussed.
These analyses carried out in the framework of Villa of Diomedes interdisciplinary project was very useful to interpret the fabrication of the Villa and to make a reconstruction of 3D model as it probably resulted to be the fateful year of 79 A.D.
Keywords
Floor types; interdisciplinary approach; Pompeii archaeological park; Villa of Diomedes; design formulations; barrel vaults; wooden floors
Subject
Engineering, Civil Engineering
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