The impluvium (pl.: impluvia) is a water-catchment pool system meant to capture rain-water flowing from the compluvium, or slanted 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 passively 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 associated 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...

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...

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...

kilometres from the Casamance's chief town Ziguinchor. It is noted for its impluvium houses, which are a distinctive feature of Jola architecture. 12°30′42″N...

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...

There are also instances of lightwell use by the Romans, such as the impluvium and compluvium shaft. In traditional Chinese architecture, the 天井 (sky...

fine example in the house of Cornelius Rufus, which stood behind the impluvium. These side tables were known as mensae vasariae and were used for the...

Seated Hermes, found at the villa in 1758. Around the bowl of the atrium impluvium were 11 bronze fountain statues depicting Satyrs pouring water from a...

plummet, plunge, replumb pluvia pluvi- rain compluvium, displuviate, impluvium, plover, pluvial, pluviosity pōculum pōcul- cup poculent, poculiform †pōcillum...

village in Basse Casamance in the south of Senegal. The presence of cases à impluvium, typical of Jola architecture, greatly contribute to the reputation of...

atrium, a monumental cubic glass light has been built in the shape of an impluvium, decorated with sketched paintings by Pablo Palazuelo. The acoustics of...

beauty and for bringing nature into the building. Some tsubo-niwa are also impluviums that collect rainwater; others contain groundwater wells. They are traditional...

29,500 73,000 Grande Briere 19,000 47,000 Ile d'Europa 205,800 509,000 Impluvium d'Evian 3,275 8,090 La Brenne 140,000 350,000 La Dombes 47,659 117,770...

level. A single main drain collected water from the Forum and from house impluviums, latrines and kitchens along Cardo III.[citation needed] Other drains...

with the single-wave border The peristyle impluvium with columns in the Ionic style and floor mosaic The impluvium and floor mosaic from another angle The...

Alfonso V and Rebolería streets. It was centralized around a porticoed impluvium endowed with a central statue of a drunken Faun lying on a wineskin from...

leads through a second entrance to a central courtyard, or atrium. An impluvium or pool designed to catch rainwater lies in the middle of the courtyard...

staircase; it determines the time of prayers. The rainwater collector or impluvium, probably the work of the Muradid Bey Mohamed Bey al-Mouradi (1686–1696)...

rooms within the House of the Tragic Poet. Here, a large rectangular impluvium, or sunken water basin sits beneath an open ceiling, collecting water...

next. The House of the Impluvium is an early 4th c. BC example of an Italic house with an atrium whose roof fed the impluvium pool at its centre. The...

rainwater from the roof tops. They perform the same duties as the Roman impluvium while restricting the amount of sunlight that enters the building. Sky...

Throne Room Lustral Basin at Knossos, he initially mistook it for an impluvium and then for a culinary fishtank. Given local aquaculture, he speculated...

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...

found in atriums, where they gave access to the water cistern fed by the impluvium. The classical puteal is made of carved stone, often marble in Europe...