The Similarities and Differences Between a Mesopotamian ‘Courtyard’ and a Roman ‘Peristyle’ House

The link effect was obtained by placing it in the center of the house plan view. This space leads to all the rooms. Usually, the kitchen has an opening in this space. This is the way to get smoke out of the house. By using the courtyard for various purposes, it became one of the most important houses from there. The role of the courtyard varies according to region and period. There are various functions that can be offered to restrict the suitability of various rooms in the house to ensure air circulation and ventilation to create a garden space showing social status.

Many houses are concentrated in wide aisles or "spaghetti", extending along the length of the house, one side open to a small courtyard that recognizes light and air. In the middle of a big house there is a fully developed peri style courtyard, the room surrounds it. The upper floors of some houses seem to be reserved for family women. Rectangular temples are the most common and famous form of Greek public buildings. This straight structure makes use of the late Heraddick, Mycenae Megaron which contains the room of the throne of the center, the entrance and the pouch. Temple is different from modern church because altar is under Temeno's open sky or sacred area, usually directly in front of temple.

The early Roman house was a one storey building built around the courtyard. The main reception room (Atrium) gave up small rooms - trichrium, office (tablinum), bedroom, kitchen and other family area. Many family rooms are painted on the walls. Later, due to the influence of Greece, the large courtyard of the house became a small peri style garden with a fountain and a pond. Later, some houses became bigger and the design became more complicated in two stories. The area around the atrium will spread to the main area and the garden will move to the back (however, the building with kitchen, employee residential area, warehouse etc). Every Roman town house has a toilet. The toilet is built on the sewer and is discharged into a large public sewer to discard the trash in the town.

There are many rooms in Rome 's house, which is common in most other houses. For example, there are atriums in every room and you can return to other rooms. Atrium is the place where you can do most business. This means that private affairs and publicity remain separate. Or at a Greek house, men tend to leave the room, but this does not necessarily mean that they are in front of the house, which means that they will work at home at some point (Goldberg, 1999: 142). Goldberg (1999: 155-156) also pointed out that the courtyard of the house is the center of activity. Everything is here; even if it is a female place, this is the way for her husband to pay attention to his wife, all traffic going through the house goes through here first