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Greek parthenon floor plan.
The parthenon with floor plan sitting high atop the acropolis that overlooks athens the parthenon expresses in architectural principle key aspects of the classical greek sensibility.
Six columns are the inside entry way with five by ten columns enclosing the large interior temple room.
Pericles commissioned the renowned greek architects ictinus and callicrates and the sculptor phidias to design the parthenon which became the largest doric style temple of its time.
A floor plan view shows eight columns across the front view and seventeen columns from the side view.
If you examine all dimensions of the parthenon you ll find a variety of numbers and proportions.
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The parthenon is a doric peripteral temple which means that it consists of a rectangular floor plan with a series of low steps on every side and a colonnade 8 x 17 of doric columns extending around the periphery of the entire structure.
The number of doric columns in the outer colonnade 8x17 was unusual for a greek temple 6x13.
It stands on a platform or stylobate of three steps.
And perhaps there s no building that evokes ancient greece more than the parthenon.
Floor plan of the parthenon cella pronaos2nd cellaopisthodomos 15.
Floor plan of the parthenon the parthenon is a peripteral octastyle doric temple with ionic architectural features.
Each entrance has an.
In the greek temple the porch portico or entrance hall to the temple proper or cella pronaos 13.
Started in 447 bce it took nine years for the structure to be completed and an additional six to finish all of the decorative elements.
Located on the acropolis in athens the parthenon was constructed at the peak of the greek empire.
In common with other greek temples it is of post and lintel construction and is surrounded by columns peripteral carrying an entablature.
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Opisthodomos the parthenon had a double cella with a pronaos and opisthodomos a porch at the rear of the cella which often served as a rear entrance 14.