| North of the impluvium you see an elaborate cantibulum resting between the two northern-most columns. |
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| The ancient Romans used the water collected in the impluvium to supplement their aqueduct system. |
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| A wellhead next to the impluvium provided access to the water stored in the cistern. |
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| Further to the impluvium there was an underground tank connected to it which could catch any excess rainwater. |
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| In the next scene, it does, complete with Romans being pelted with pots, thrown into the impluvium, and drowned in vats of baked beans. |
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| The house possesses features that match the horizontally fluted walls, pillars, central impluvium and carved decorations observed in the architecture of ancient Benin. |
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| The brown covers selected for the low impluvium and the arcs by the architect Méléhi are an allegory clearly dedicated to the palm groves of Marrekech. |
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| A four-story, glass-walled impluvium, open at the roofline, draws light into the interior of the Gates Center. |
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| Moneo's taut, elegant new part docks into the old palace to create an impluvium style courtyard. |
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| Resource protection extends to the whole catchment area, the impluvium, which may cover as much as 10 000 hectares, as is the case for the Vittel and Contrex springs in France. |
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| Sometimes the atrium is a tetrastyle in which pillars at the four corners of the impluvium support girders or main beams of the roof. |
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| The same layout is evident on the second floor with the central room, probably originally an open courtyard given the presence of a central impluvium. |
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| These main streets, which ran at right angles to each other, had underground drainage made of a sunken impluvium with an outlet to carry away storm water. |
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| A quartet of trees framed the dining space, and in the center was the room's namesake square impluvium, quietly burbling as diners laughed and gossiped in the golden light. |
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| In many later homes the atrium was converted into a peristyle, with the impluvium becoming a basin or water pool surrounded by a garden, now called a viridarium. |
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