Facade Parthenon Floor Plan

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.

Facade parthenon floor plan.

Construction began in 447 bc when the athenian empire was at the peak of its power. My research for my 2018 book on the golden ratio revealed that there are also golden ratios to be found in its floor plan. The number of doric columns in the outer colonnade 8x17 was unusual for a greek temple 6x13. 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.

This ratio governed the vertical and horizontal proportions of the temple as well as many other relationships of the building like the spacing between the columns and their height. See more ideas about hotel floor plan hotel floor hotel. The parthenon is a temple of the doric order with eight columns at the façade and seventeen columns at the flanks conforming to the established ratio of 9 4. Each entrance has an additional six columns in front of it.

A drawing illustrating the floor plan of the parthenon 447 438 bce. Parthenon golden ratio summary. So between the disney s donald in mathmagic land my 2013 article and my 2018 book we find the following golden ratios in the parthenon.