Hypothetical reconstructions (volumetry and planimetry)
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Luncani-Piatra Roșie, Hunedoara county, 1-2st c. AD
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Ocnița (Buridava), Vâlcea county,1st c. AD
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Luncani-Piatra Roșie, Hunedoara county, 1-2st c. AD
Amply sized dwellings with many rooms are frequently found in the Dacian Era, along with the usual family dwellings. Focusing major constructive efforts and assuming extensive building knowledge, these buildings usually have walls made out of wooden beams supported on stone foundations or with slotted in poles.
The rooms are arranged on two or three bays with one or two openings. This distribution involves the existence of a clear functional scheme, preceding the urban approach upon which to make the space grouping, starting with the destination and importance of each room.
The semi-open spaces (the porches and pavilions) are arranged on the sides (between the pilasters), thus perpetuating the „megaron” type, or surround the edifice on two or three sides. The persistence of the planimetric type specific to the „megaron” (with the main entrance on the shorter side of the building, which is kept as the main façade of the building) to a greater extant than in the normal dwellings is worth mentioning.
The organisation system of the planimetry, with bays and openings, confers the volumetric solution an obviously monumental character, underlined as much through the rhythm of the columns that mark the semi-open spaces, as through the use of some special materials (ridge tiles, roof tiles and so on).
The edifice's amplitude, being up to 40 metres long and 20-25 metres wide, as well as the gauge of some rooms with openings of 8-12 metres, implies, on one hand, elevated building procedures, sustained by adequate instrumentation, and on the other hand technical knowledge reaching to the realisation of „farms” made of wood, capable to support the aforementioned openings.