Well, they seem to be successive additions, without a straightforward plan. For instance, the corridor between the hexagonal building and the basilica has a rather important role, but gets to be 70 cm. narrow. The plan is there to see, and I had to respect it.
One of the main differences with Carandini's reconstruction is in the other apse. I imagined a sort of open air theatre, with the courtyard of the older house as spectators area, and a row of decorative columns as the limit of the scene.
Yup. I am doing this mainly because I am not satisfied with Carandini's reconstruction. The buildings on top of the cistern belong at least to two moments. One more or less contemporary with the completed cistern (Trajan)and the rest added about IVth century. The problems with Carandini's reconstruction are more than one. One is the access, that staircase doesn't make much sense. The other is the roofing of the flowerlike building, the walls are too thin to sustain a concrete vault, I believe it was wooden. The third is the extension, the edge of the top of the cistern, the part that has fallen off, was very frail. I don't beleve anybody would build something on top of that. And Carandini's reconstruction, based on a central simmetry, goes far beyond even the edge, no way. I think that the whole edge was used just as a sidewalk, no masonry.
I am intrigued by the cistern called the sette sale (seven halls, even if the cistern corridors are nine). Lots of problems in the reconstruction, the lower part is rather straightforward, but the upper part is hellish. I am pretty sure the project was part of Nero's golden house, raised partly after Nero's death by Titus, enlarged and completed by Trajan. A part of the structures on top of it belongs to Trajan, but there is also a late roman extension (IVth century). One of the problems is the access to the upper level. I think the terrain on the northern side was more or less level with it, and that the access was through that side. We'll see.
Excelente, pero me parece un poco obsesivo. Espero que no te hayas dedicado a esto exclusivamente ... Los renders son muy buenos, tendrè que probar Thea render ... pero no te creo eso de que tu casa estè siempre tan limpia y ordenadita, a menos que tengas una novia tambièn obsesiva ...
I'm sure there are, the building is now mainly a museum and an archive for all the architectural doccumentats of most buildings in BA. It would be funny if they didn't have plans of their own (even if in spanish they say "in the ironsmith's house they often dine with wooden knives"), but I am living in Rome now, and can't find out. A good shot woud be to contact the Royal Doulton factory in UK. They manufactured all the cladding of the building, completely clad in glazed ceramic, and they sent the lot in crates with very detailed blueprints on how to assemble what is probably the largest jigsaw puzzle ever made.
That's really nice. You should get a look at the building of Aguas Corrientes in Buenos Aires, that should be a real challenge for you ...
I am quite impressed ... but why petite? Thought it was a male, petit ...
Thanks a lot, Tom. I need fans. There goes the model with all the statues, the volumes are ok, I think. Now it's time for UV's and textures and bump maps, but that will have to wait. I used Blender's decimate modifier on Poser characters for the statues, and I think it works fine, I get some decent figures at very low res and very light. No way I could have built a model with about 26 human figures otherwise ...
I think you are pushing SU farther away than what it's made for. SU is unbeatable for buildings, but leave it alone for other projects. Those things are better built in some other app, such as Blender. I've also done something in Poser (but that's not free, even if it is quite cheap). Have a look at this video, I think you can't go any better than that ...
I am trying my hand at interiors, there goes a WIP on Venus and Rome, still a long way to go ...
Csaba, I am playing with some tools that may interest you, especially 123D catch, that is a free software from Autodesk. I made some interesting 3D visualizations of my wife's excavation and finds. I still use sketchup a lot, as you'll see in the video, made mainly in Poser (the video is just a joke to experiment things), but I am also looking at other software. At the time being I am going crazy trying to learn Blender ...
I've been criticized because I used the standard Sketchup guys in jeans and t-shirt to give scale to the roman views, so I took some images from Alix to populate the renderings, but they do not work that well. I'll have to look for some other solution ...
And I wonder why the .skp is that big. Thought it would be much lighter ...
I still think that Nero's atrium probably had a temple at its center, this is another try ...
Happy new year.
... Emperor Hadrian moved the colossus into the valley with the help of 24 elephants ...
Around the Ludus Magnus there were other gladatorial gyms about which little is known, the two main ones were the Ludus Matutinus and Ludus Dacicus. There goes a try.
