A minimum height is provided here, based on the proportions of the interior columns and the doorways. The reconstruction of the small red cornice near the top is absolutely conjectural but it distracts the spectators' imagination away from a classical elevation. Thus, instead of a classical appearance, we chose to explore visually an oriental versiontraditional to Nabataean culturewith a plain wall and a flat roof. The doorframes with the triple fasciae occur in Petra, in the façades of the Assyrian typean oriental type. The reconstructed details of the doorways were inspired from the above parallels. The colors, proportions and tops of the side doorframes are based on the frescoes from Wadi al-Siyyagh.

The front doorway of the pavilion is 4.60 m.wide and occupies almost half of the façade's width. This is proportionally wide relative to other monuments at Petra. For example, the front doorway of the Temple of the Winged Lions is 4.35 m. wide and occupies exactly one-fourth of  the building's width. An open façade would have allowed a panoramic view of the garden and the city center for visitors to the island. The open façade of Phase I of the neighboring Great Temple may have served a similar purpose.
In this image, experimenting with dim light offered a nice way to avoid commenting on details for lack of good evidence (only one season of excavation has been completed in this area of Petra). We tried to demonstrate the recreation area reconstructed at night, with torches alight. You will find a similar image of the pool and the pavilion in the daylight, as well as all details and evidence for its reconstruction in the preliminary report titled The Pool-Complex of Petra (Petra 'Lower Market' Survey, 1998).

In the pavilion, the lack of corner pilasters would result in the lack of a classical entablature and therefore a pediment in the façade. In other words, the lack of vertical elements of a classical order should indicate the absence of horizontal classical elements as well. The latter are aestheticallyand supposedly structurally supported by the former.
Island-Pavilion and Pool at Night
This image is the outcome of the collaborative work of:
Leigh-Ann Bedal of the University of Pennsylvania (excavator)
Chrysanthos Kanellopoulos (architect)
Vassili Zachos (computer graphics)


In this image, experimenting with dim light offered a nice way to avoid commenting on details for lack of good evidence (only one season of excavation has been completed in this area of Petra). We tried to demonstrate the recreation area reconstructed at night, with torches alight. You will find a similar image of the pool and the pavilion in the daylight, as well as all details and evidence for its reconstruction in the preliminary report titled The Pool-Complex of Petra (Petra 'Lower Market' Survey, 1998).

In the pavilion, the lack of corner pilasters would result in the lack of a classical entablature and therefore a pediment in the façade. In other words, the lack of vertical elements of a classical order should indicate the absence of horizontal classical elements as well. The latter are aestheticallyand supposedly structurally supported by the former.
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A minimum height is provided here, based on the proportions of the interior columns and the doorways. The reconstruction of the small red cornice near the top is absolutely conjectural but it distracts the spectators' imagination away from a classical elevation. Thus, instead of a classical appearance, we chose to explore visually an oriental versiontraditional to Nabataean culturewith a plain wall and a flat roof. The doorframes with the triple fasciae occur in Petra, in the façades of the Assyrian typean oriental type. The reconstructed details of the doorways were inspired from the above parallels. The colors, proportions and tops of the side doorframes are based on the frescoes from Wadi al-Siyyagh.

The front doorway of the pavilion is 4.60 m.wide and occupies almost half of the façade's width. This is proportionally wide relative to other monuments at Petra. For example, the front doorway of the Temple of the Winged Lions is 4.35 m. wide and occupies exactly one-fourth of  the building's width. An open façade would have allowed a panoramic view of the garden and the city center for visitors to the island. The open façade of Phase I of the neighboring Great Temple may have served a similar purpose.
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