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Did Roman apartment houses have a "Super" on site, or a doorman? Was parking included for your horse and wagon? What happened if your insula went condo? In this video you'll learn about Roman apartment houses, or insulae; who lived in an insula, and on what floors; the floor plan of a typical insula; and what a typical insula would have looked like.

A city of brick, a city of marble.

I finally built the shell of the Mamertine Prison. I moved and embellished two of the insulae and moved them to the foot of the Capitoline hill. Also, I built a smaller version of the Porticus Deorum Consentium.

This basically begins the first of the actual street scenes leading into the city center and creates a very big contrast between the Augustan Forum in its splendor and the blighted lives of the Empire’s working classes. My next task is to sculpt and landscape the Capitoline hill then work my way outward to the other geographic features.

Cross-posted from my art blog.

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This was originally a comic panel, but then it didn't work so now its turned into a separate drawing

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Details of the block of insulae. I’m still working on all the details but the layout of the structure is finished. I even plotted out where the residential apartment would be!

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After waiting for a bit to fix my computer and receive all the necessary hardware, I have finally returned to building. For now, I’m in a Roman mood so Latium is going to be my hyperfixation.

The first four buildings are the temples, which received some much needed minor changes. I switched to a new roof type that had a white, bordered pattern. This will help distinguish the pediment and make it pop. The white border also means I can color the pediments.

The temples represent four different facade styles. The Temple of Caesar has but one large medallion in the center. The Temple of Castor and Pollux has a plain, design-less pediment. The Temple of Saturn has a painted pediment consisting of three medallions (one large, two small), and the Temple of Concord has an entabulature built from statues, a la the Parthenon.

The last two pictures are a city block in progress, one of several I hope to dot the Latium city center with. They’re insulae, Roman apartment buildings. Now, this represents the upper limit to the size of the insulae shell buildings, but it’ll give you a rough idea of what they’re supposed to look like in general. The insulae have stores at the bottom (whether functional or decorative is to be determined).

The upper floors are where the residential LN apartment unit will be located. Most of the insulae I would build will be cheap housing, while at least one will be a rabbit hole for the diner and another will be an actual house for a household that’s basically several dysfunctional sitcom tenants.

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I’ve made a few more slummy-looking insulae to give a general idea of how I want the city narrows around Latium’s city-center to look like. It’s quite dense even before all the incidental detailing. And yet I’ve yet to capture the fullness of Ancient Rome’s urban blight.

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