Most tourists in Rome put the Colosseum at the top of their list to see. (My own sister-in-law, who was soon heading for her Italian honeymoon, plans to go more or less directly to this ruin. HarenaReferring to the relaxed sand to absorb the blood shed in combat – fills the imagination of images of gladiators, lions, brilliant senators from their seats on the ground and masses swimming behind them. But their visions may not include other real details in history such as the hideouts, the staged naval battles and an underground system of tunnels and elevators, which are all explained in the new Deconstruct video above.
Even occasional Rome lovers all know that competitors and other artists, humans and animals, have made their officials of official Colosseum across the ground. (Announcements were made a few years ago to the effect that the mechanized floor which made these theaters possible would be rebuilt by 2025 – a project that does not yet seem to have made a lot of progress, but if it will end up being put off as long as the Strait by Messina Bridge remains to be seen.)
But only the most obsessive already have a clear understanding of how it worked, which this video clearly explains in terms of words and 3D rendering, in the restaurant of elements not only of the building itself, but also of its immediate urban context which has long been lost in time.
Take it VélariumOne with each of its 240 bands exploited by a separate winch, it required at least as many human operators to deploy or retract at speed – a greater speed, perhaps, that the operation of some of the retractable roofs incorporated into the sports facilities today. Not “just an engineering feat, but also a precursor of the design of the modern stadium”, the Vellarium addressed a problem which will not escape modern tourists today – in particular those who visit the Colosseum in the middle of a summer day.
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Based in Seoul, Colin MArshall Written and broadcastTS on cities, language and culture. His projects include the substack newsletter Books on cities And the book The stateless city: a walk through Los Angeles from the 21st century. Follow it on the social network formerly known as Twitter in @ColinmArshall.
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