If you examine all dimensions of the parthenon you ll find a variety of numbers and proportions.
Greek parthenon floor plan.
It stands on a platform or stylobate of three steps.
Six columns are the inside entry way with five by ten columns enclosing the large interior temple room.
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.
Located on the acropolis in athens the parthenon was constructed at the peak of the greek empire.
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.
Floor plan of the parthenon cella pronaos2nd cellaopisthodomos 15.
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.
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.
The cella contained the 12m high cult statue of athena and the rear smaller chamber was used as the treasury of the city of athens.
In common with other greek temples it is of post and lintel construction and is surrounded by columns peripteral carrying an entablature.
A floor plan view shows eight columns across the front view and seventeen columns from the side view.
Floor plan of the parthenon the parthenon is a peripteral octastyle doric temple with ionic architectural features.
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The parthenon 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 str.
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.
In the greek temple the porch portico or entrance hall to the temple proper or cella pronaos 13.
The number of doric columns in the outer colonnade 8x17 was unusual for a greek temple 6x13.
And perhaps there s no building that evokes ancient greece more than the parthenon.
Each entrance has an.