Gabe--Stonehenge

Rome’s magnificent coliseum was a gigantic, rising 187 feet in height and accommodating approximately 50,000 people sat. The most important people sat on the lowest stone benches and had soft cushion’s on their seats accompanied by the best view. While the more less important people out of the Romans sat on the highest level seat that were wood old rickety benches. Just as an extra it also wasn’t the safest trip going up to those benches either. On other terms the architecture of the coliseum is carefully designed with circulation paths. When exiting the “non-elite” spectators were funneled through a small and narrow tunnel. Mostly resulting in congestion from large amounts of people trying to squeeze into one hole like a bunch of little rats. Thus slowing their progress of leaving left time for the more important citizen’s to exit from the lower seats. Beneath the arena, the main floor of the coliseum are service corridors. Rooms for the gladiators, storerooms, cages for wild animals, ramps, and more 28 mechanical lifts that were operated with counter weights and winches. Known as the hypogeum. This area was dank dark, and above all nasty. Lit by candles and oil lamps, filled with horrifying smells and roars of animals and beast. An underground tunnel led directly to a nearby school, for gladiators. Recently a team from Germany, the German archaeological institute carefully studied the hypogeum and the ingenious pulleys and levers designed to open gates hoist cages and scenery from the shadows up to the arena floor with a split second precision. The future of the coliseum is much the same as the present it is planned to be reserved and kept as a wonder and a sightseeing event and opportunity for as long as when can keep it alive. Hopefully that will be for a long time. So yet for this beautiful and amazing architecture for what it going to be done with it now is as the same for later and now and on. I mean just cause there really not much to do it with it though.

WORK CITED Favro, Diane. "A MASTERPIECE IN DESIGN." Calliope 19.9 (2009): 15. History Reference Center. EBSCO. Web. 21 Oct. 2010.