Brick built multi-storey apartment or "insula" buildings such as this are characteristic of Roman cities, especially Rome itself and Ostia, where the originals for this model are found. Shops and restaurants occupied the ground floor, with apartment accommodation above (the worse dwellings on the top floors). A central courtyard admits light and may have contained a a well or fountain. This model is accurate representations of the housing of millions of inhabitants of the cities of the Roman empire. Material files included. Also available in .c4D, and check out other similar models by searching for MCN2304