- The
impluvium (pl.: impluvia) is a water-catchment pool
system meant to
capture rain-water
flowing from the compluvium, an area of roof.
Often placed...
-
catchment area,
catchment basin,
drainage area,
river basin,
water basin, and
impluvium. In
North America, they are
commonly called a watershed,
though in other...
- had a
central opening in the roof (compluvium) and a
rainwater pool (
impluvium)
beneath it. The
cavaedium p****ively collected, filtered, stored, and...
-
slanted tiled roof.
Directly below the
compluvium was the
impluvium.
Impluvium: an
impluvium was
basically a
drained pool, a
shallow rectangular sunken...
- planning. The
Ancient Roman impluvium, a
standard feature of the
domus house,
generally had a
cistern underneath. The
impluvium and ****ociated structures...
- with
enclosed rooms on all sides. In the
middle of the
atrium was the
impluvium, a
shallow pool
sunken into the
floor to
catch rainwater from the roof...
-
impluvium in
order to
permit light and air
through the
walls since windows were
absent among these structures. The
stored rainwater in the
impluvium was...
- a
white limestone impluvium, a
basin for
collecting water. The
statue was
found on
October 26 of 1830 near one side of the
impluvium and a
small fountain...
-
preventing heat gain. The
house opens onto a
central atrium with an
impluvium (open to the sky); the
evaporative cooling of the
water causes a cross-draft...
- most
often contained a
central pool used to
collect rainwater,
called an
impluvium.
These homes frequently incorporated a
second open-air area, the garden...
