Portico Rooms

[Eva Dunckel]

Locatedon the first floor of the South Wing, with original features, natural daylight and uninterrupted views of the London skyline the Portico Rooms are a spacious and versatile suite of rooms offering a contemporary and elegant location. This network of elegant 18th century spaces can be adapted and tailored to any event brief.

Included in your hire are two private balconies - whether you prefer to watch the sunset across the River Thames from the south facing balcony, or marvel at our sensational fountains from the north facing balcony, the Portico Rooms are a truly stunning venue for any event.

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On the eastern side of the Greek Theatre square there is an original iron door which leads to where there used to be the gardens of Casa Larrard, the former mansion that Gell adopted as his own house, but which has since 1931 been a school. The route, which runs at a level higher than that of the house, passes through a pine grove with the portico backing onto a retaining wall made from unworked stone. The portico adopts the shape of a great wave atop slanting columns, with a double colonnade that acts as a buttress. It is one of the finest examples of the organic architecture upheld by Gaud. The same meaning, at once structural and aesthetic, can be appreciated in the spiral ramp which takes visitors down to the house, at the end of the path.

Description:

Located on the 2nd floor of McKeldin Library, this is a moderately sized room with access to an outdoor patio area. The space can be used for a variety of purposes, especially lectures, group discussions and receptions.

Size and Capacity:

Maximum seating capacity for the room is limited to 32. However, the room can accommodate up to 50-60 people standing. A minimum of 15 guests for events using the indoor space is required.

The Portico Room is available for use during hours when McKeldin Library is open. Events that will end after the library closes are not permitted. Only library groups may reserve the room on weekends.

The room is intended for use by library partners and campus administration for special events. It is not available for recurring classes. Student groups and clubs are not permitted to reserve the room.

All reservation requests must be sent to lib-port...@umd.edu for approval. Requests must be submitted no less than 5 business days in advance. Changes to reservations must be received at least 24 hours in advance but are not guaranteed.

Because use of the Portico requires displacement of students and additional staff labor, requestors should consider other library spaces when possible, and are welcome to discuss their needs with TLC staff. Exceptions will be considered on a case-by-case basis through discussion with all stakeholders of the space.

A payment of $75 will be assessed if the room is not cleared and restored to original condition after the event. An additional charge (minimum $75) will be applied if special cleaning of room is required after the event.

Food is permitted in the room. Event liaisons (i.e. organizers) are expected to clean up after their event, put all refuse in the designated bins (see graphic), and return the room to its original state.

Food deliveries should be brought in via the McKeldin Library loading dock and the freight elevators. The loading dock is open 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. NOTE: If a Friday event includes food, the refuse must be removed from the room and taken down to the loading dock dumpsters.

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Hi

I have a small cape house with a portico and front stoop. No foyer inside and my sis in law suggested to enclose the portico to extend /create a foyer we could use year-round. I wonder if it might be too small and dark though...any thoughts and pics to share? I did a google search but surprisingly can't find anything...

thanks!

Ok now still sitting behind the Rostra, ya might have to stand up to see it :-) or just take that uphill street about 40 m to the Portico structure on the right (on the left side of the Temple of Vespasian and Titus).

They don't know much about it or what it was actually called in ancient times so the archaeologists have named it the 'Portico of the Dei Consentes' (aka 'Porticus Deorum Consentium') for the Counselor Gods and Goddess' that were displayed here in the form of twelve gilded bronze statues (From here on I am just going to write Gods/ess for Gods and Goddess'). These Gods/ess were the Roman version of the twelve Athenian Gods/ess and were paired-off one Male God to one Female Goddess (Jupiter-Juno, Neptune-Minerva, Apollo-Diana, Mars-Venus, Vulcan-Vesta, Mercury-Ceres).

Basically what you see today is from the first Century AD rebuild and later restorations. This 'rebuild' was very likely by Vespasian's boys because it *seems* that when they built dad's temple it cut into this area so they had to shorten up this Portico.

This Cult of Gods/ess was likely introduced to the Romans in the Late third Century BC, around the time of Hannibal's second Punic War. In 174 BC according to Livy a Portico once ran from the Temple of Saturn (the one with eight columns next to you) over to the Senaculum (now beneath that present-day church you see on the other side of the Arch of Septimius Severus). This portico really dressed up this end of the Forum serving as a nice backdrop.

From what *I* gather they think that this Portico perhaps originally held the twelve Gods/ess statues spaced along its length? Now when they built (121 BC) the Temple of Concord and the Basilica Opimia it would have very likely cut-off that section. But it was possibly still intact up to the Temple of Concord. So the Vespasian boys would have had to remove that section of portico in order to build the Temple of Vespasian. So now they only have a short section of the original portico left on the side of the Temple but still have twelve Gods/ess to house. So it seems that the boys rebuilt this Portico section to house the twelve within this now very limited space. And at this point it's more like a Shrine rather than a functional everyday Portico which is basically a covered walkway.

Now if a run-of-the-mill Portico was in the way of their Temple they would have just demolished it without a thought. But if it was a Portico that housed Gods/ess even if its time had passed as a functioning walkway the superstitious Romans aren't about to kick twelve Major Gods/ess to the street and incur their wraith. So *it seems* that the Vespasians built this shrine-like Portico who's only function was to house these Gods and Goddess'? So what you have is just a short dog-legged __/ section of a portico, one source called this new structure "...ungainly makeshift".

This area was first excavated in 1547 but that was just to strip the marble-facing on the brick walls of the lower rooms. In 1832-35 this area was archaeologically excavated and in 1858 the Portico and the rooms were reconstructed. The large capitals of Travertine laying on the ground in front of the Portico are believed to have once been part of the outside upper floor of the Tabularium. Also in the original nineteenth Century excavation they said that fragments of the 'Arch of Tiberius' were also found there? If so I'd be inclined to believe that the Arch was cannibalized to make a later (Medieval?) structure in this location?

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