Hypocaust

Hypocaust

28/04/2015

The Roman hypocaust is the heating system, invented in the second century BC by Orata to heat his fish pond. A hypocaust consists of a raised floor, resting on brick pier particles of sixty centimeters high. Through furnace or hot coals the raised floor could be heated. The heat often spreads through the walls, which were built with hollow bricks. The system was not only used in bathhouses, also luxury villas were often heated in this way.

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