how do i make a roman courtyard???????

Question

i need this sooo badly and the stupid enternet doesnt have a good page for directiouns. it is like a castle but with a big space in the middle with grass and stuff!! thanx 4 the help

Answer 1

I found this image quite accurate: http://home.att.net/~b.b.major/domuscol4.jpg

Essentially, there are two sections of a Roman house, front (bottom on the picture) and back. The house was usually surrounded by workshops (taberna). One would enter through the vestibulum, or entrance room, and proceed into the atrium, a room with a sky light in the middle (impluvium) that let rain water into a little pool directly under it (compluvium). Around the atrium were usually bedrooms (cumbicula) and beyond the atrium, in the middle space between the two sections was usually a study room (tablinum). Past the study room was your courtyard (peristylium), a garden (hortus) open to the sky and surrounded by a colonnaded walk. At one end of the peristylium was the dining room (triclinium) with a small bath (balneum) and a kitchen (culina) close by.

Hope that helps, good luck!

Answer 2

The big space in the middle is an atrium. Go to the "Villa at the Getty" Herculaneum and Pompeii