Why Is Roman Architecture Better Than Concrete
Romans architecture played a major role during the rise of Rome. They made many different building and structures like the bridges, houses, aqueducts and many more. These architecture helped the romans survive and win against many wars. Roman architecture protected the romans, and allowed them to have clean water and made traveling easier. The Rome invented many different creations, they all came from basic materials, one of them were concrete. You might think it was just some normal concrete, but it was different from the concrete we have today. The concrete from ancient Rome were made with slaked lime, volcano ash and volcanic rocks also known as pozzolana. The concrete was surprisingly better than the concrete we use today because the concrete from the past was more environmentally friendlier then modern concrete, it also endure chemical decay and last even longer when submerge in sea water.
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The arches where used for 4000 years and is still used today. The Romans used arches for every thing, things they commonly use arches are bridges, aqueducts, sewers, amphi theaters and many other architectural structures. The reason why arches were used in so many structures is because arches allowed the buildings weight to evenly distribute weight on supports. Roman Bridges’s had arches as the basic structure. There are many different types of bridges, one of them are the arch bridge they named it the arch bridge because it was made mostly with arches and it allowed a massive amount of water to flow though. The steps romans engineers used to build a bridge is different form the bridges we have today, the bridge were created by wooden arches in the measurement of a finished bridge, then they used concrete to cover up the wood lastly they put another layer of bricks and ground up volcanic
The arches where used for 4000 years and is still used today. The Romans used arches for every thing, things they commonly use arches are bridges, aqueducts, sewers, amphi theaters and many other architectural structures. The reason why arches were used in so many structures is because arches allowed the buildings weight to evenly distribute weight on supports. Roman Bridges’s had arches as the basic structure. There are many different types of bridges, one of them are the arch bridge they named it the arch bridge because it was made mostly with arches and it allowed a massive amount of water to flow though. The steps romans engineers used to build a bridge is different form the bridges we have today, the bridge were created by wooden arches in the measurement of a finished bridge, then they used concrete to cover up the wood lastly they put another layer of bricks and ground up volcanic