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Dr_Hexagon t1_jdq29ru wrote
Wkipedia is wrong. A five minute google search shows that Roman Palaces sometimes had corridors with doorways coming off them.
Tutorbin76 t1_jdqbglo wrote
Good catch. Care to correct the Wikipedia page?
iobeson t1_jdq7ijo wrote
The Romans were so fucking badass.
samgarita t1_jdqmxes wrote
Yeah… but what have the Romans really ever done for us?
redditpappy t1_jdr9x2z wrote
The bit about wheelchairs is weird too. I'm not saying it's not a good thing but I don't think it defines a hallway.
Atharaphelun t1_jds3had wrote
Which ones? Even Roman palaces adhere to the layout of a typical domus, in which all rooms open into a central courtyard (or multiple courtyards) rather than having a hallway that connects all of them. You can see this in the Domus Flavia, Domus Augustana, Domus Severiana, Palace of Diocletian, etc.
SalMinellaOnYouTube OP t1_jdoni53 wrote
From the Wikipedia page on John Thorpe > Thorpe's major-but-little-trumpeted contribution to world architecture is the humble and now-ubiquitous corridor "for a house[3] in Chelsea", London, England, in 1597,[4] allowing "independent access to individual rooms". Previously, the fashion was the so-called enfilade arrangement of rooms in a dwelling in which each room led to the next via connecting internal doors. The enfilade remained popular in continental Europe long after the corridor was widely adopted in England. Flanders believes Thorpe's inspiration was the one-sided covered walkway common in monastic cloisters. Given their similarities, this is a reasonable prima facie conjecture.
Hedgerow_Snuffler t1_jdqkl2v wrote
WHAT? I swear sometimes I read stuff on here and think, have I slipped into some parallel reality?
There's an entire sub category of Roman Villas, called Corridor Villas. We have them here in Britain, and they can be found across most of Western Europe.
Chedworth Roman Villa (late 3rd early 4th C) has TWO nearly 50m long corridors, The majority of that Wiki article is utter bobbins and bum guff,
Stubborncomrade t1_jdrdfs2 wrote
Bobbins and bum guff lmao
LunarPayload t1_jds251i wrote
What's th difference between a corridor and a hallway? Is one external and the other internal?
dontttasemebro t1_jdpbagd wrote
It is so difficult to wrap my mind around the fact that this did not exist before then.
smartguy05 t1_jdpgkez wrote
You just keep going through the next door until you arrive at the room you're looking for. It's a pain in the ass if you know how to get where you're going but convenient as hell if you're looking for somewhere.
Atharaphelun t1_jdqdzvg wrote
And in other cases, all the rooms simply opened into and are arranged around a single central courtyard or covered space/atrium, thus the term courtyard house. This was especially ubiquitous in Ancient Rome and China (where the form is still used to this day, called siheyuan). In more complex forms of the courtyard house, there can be more than one courtyard/atrium around which another set of rooms open into.
LunarPayload t1_jds28ic wrote
Courtyards are great for shade and natural cooling
Hedgerow_Snuffler t1_jdqkrde wrote
They did, this article is utter madness!
The writer is either joking or clearly never opened a book about classical architecture.
Fluffy_WAR_Bunny t1_jdqusqa wrote
Vitruvius wrote a lot about colonnades and arcades. Which are sort of like hallways. He wrote about porticoes and also "fauces", which are short hallways.
"Fauces" comes from the word for the upper throat.
So this isn't true.
Leuk_Jin t1_jdowgv8 wrote
I heard old timey castles and mansions having no corridors. Instead, just many rooms connected to eachother. Sounded like concept of privacy was much different since nobles and aristocrats already would have had servants going in and out of their chambers anyway. But it's funny that it reminds me of how I build houses in survival games. Lack of planning, lack of resources, lack of diligence.