Everything about Room totally explained
A
room, in
architecture, is any distinguishable space within a structure. Most typically a room is separated by interior walls from other spaces or
passageways; moreover, it's separated by an exterior wall from outdoor areas, sometimes with a
door. Historically the use of rooms dates at least to early
Minoan cultures about 2200 BC, where excavations on
Santorini,
Greece at
Akrotiri reveal clearly defined rooms within structures.
Historical room types
In early structures, diverse room types could be identified to include
bedrooms,
kitchens,
bathing rooms, reception rooms and other specialized uses. The aforementioned
Akrotiri excavations reveal rooms sometimes built above other rooms connected by
staircases, bathrooms with
alabaster appliances such as washbasins, bathing tubs and toilets, all connected to an elaborate twin plumbing systems of ceramic pipes for cold and hot water separately. Ancient
Rome manifested very complex building forms with a variety of room types, including some of the earliest examples of rooms for indoor bathing. The
Anasazi civilization also had an early complex development of room structures, probably the oldest in
North America, while the
Maya of
Central America had very advanced room configurations as early as several hundred AD. By at least the early
Han Dynasty in China (for example approximately 200 BC) complex multi-level building forms emerged, particularly for religious and public purposes; these designs featured many roomed structures and included vertical connections of rooms.
Box-room
Many houses are built to contain a box-room (box room or boxroom) that's easily identifiable being smaller than the others. The small size of these rooms limits their use, and they tend to be used as a small single bedroom, small child's bedroom or as a storage room.
Traditionally, and often seen in country houses and larger suburban houses up until the 1930s in Britain, The box room was literaly for the storage of boxes, trunks, portmanteaux and the like, rather than intended for bedroom use.
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