Near Rome, they recreate a model bath, with its temperature-regulated tepidarium ( warm room ), caldarium ( hot room ) and frigidarium ( cold room ), an accomplishment of the Roman plumbing fraternity.
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The size of the building ( its frigidarium is less than 30 m?) has led some experts to believe that it was a private bath, but the identification of a domus in the immediate vicinity has proven difficult.
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The largest examples of frigidarium were both in Rome : that of the Baths of Caracalla, located soon after the entrance, measures 58 x 24 m, and that of the Baths of Diocletian, covered by a cross vault.
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The main difference was that the women's baths were smaller than the men's, and did not have a " frigidarium " ( cold room ) or a " palaestra " ( exercise area ).
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Then it led to another room called " tepidarium " which consisted of a warm room which in turn gave way to " frigidarium " or the " caldearium " rooms, hot and cold water respectively.
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He gives explicit instructions how to design such buildings so that fuel efficiency is maximised, so that for example, the " caldarium " is next to the " tepidarium " followed by the " frigidarium ."
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The complex was heated from the " praefurnia " ( firing places ); and all rooms except the " apodyterium " and " frigidarium " were served by a hypocaust system ( underfloor and wall heating ).
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This includes the finding of a semi-circular tank for cold water baths ( frigidarium ), in addition to a praefurnium used for the heating of air which circulated in the caverns beneath the baths ( heating the tanks and floors ).
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In fact, the museum itself actually consists of two buildings : the " frigidarium " ( " cooling room " ), where the vestiges of the Thermes de Cluny are, and the H�tel de Cluny itself, which houses its impressive collections.
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In 1911, she participated in " Frigidarium ", the international humour exhibition organised at Castello di Rivoli, where she won the bronze medal; in the same year she took part in the 1st Esposizione Libera organised in Milan by Boccioni and other Futurist intellectuals.
