Some thought on Tablinum....

In Roman architecture, a tablinum (or tabulinum, from tabula, board, picture) was a room generally situated on one side of the atrium and opposite to the entrance; it opened in the rear on to the peristyle, with either a large window or only an anteroom or curtain. The walls were richly decorated with fresco pictures, and busts of the family were arranged on pedestals on the two sides of the room.

The tablinum was the office in a Roman house, the father's centre for business.

-Wikipedia

For the context of this project knowing exactly what Tablinum derived from. It is described as a place where work is conducted therefore it has specific requirements to which the design must follow. Spatial relationships must be considered as the room should accomodate a sleeping and working space.


The two studies of Da Vinci and Le Corbusier focused on these spatial relationships between architecture and people. These studies might serve to be useful in the development of the Tablinum project.