Describe the layout of this building.

Excluded from the plan is the large exercise-yard (bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?]), which runs along the bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?] side of the Baths. Towards the end of the 2nd century the emperor Commodus undertook some restoration work on the Baths, particularly in the frigidarium, which he decorated with marble and columns, and to which he may have added the cold-plunges.

The rooms are laid out in such a way that the bather
* came first to the exercise area on the bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?] side, with its bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?] and bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?]
* he could then naturally move on through the unheated bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?]. Below is a restored view of the frigidarium taken from the eastern cold-plunge area.
* to the progressively warmer bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?] and the bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?]
* the hottest rooms, the bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?] and the adjacent sweating rooms (bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?]) were deliberately sited on the bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?] side (even though this meant disrupting the normal grid-plan of the city in this area)
* to take advantage of the heat of the bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?], which crosses the sky to the bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?] - in the northern hemisphere.

The northern-most outer area of the complex was an open air swimming bath surrounded on three sides by bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?] porticos and flanked by pairs of bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?]ed halls. Beyond these was a bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?] (j) in which the occupants sat on bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?] seats on three sides (with a statue looking at them on the fourth wall).

KEY

a- Open air swimming bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?]; b- bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?]; c- bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?] baths; d-bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?]-with central and two smaller baths(e); f- bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?]; g- bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?]heated rooms; h- bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?]; j- bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?]

Computer generated view of the eastern end of the frigidarium

From the the swimming bath four doors opened onto a corridor surrounding the bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?] room (frigidarium)(b). This was paved and panelled with marble and roofed by three concrete cross bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?] held up by eight Corinthian bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?]. At the ends of the hall were two cold bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?] baths. In the middle wall was the entrance to the warm room (bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?]) (d) with a large bath. Beyond that was the hot room (bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?])(f). Alongside were two superheated rooms (g) -bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?] or sweating-baths heated by bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?]

Whether bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?] could use these Baths is uncertain. If they did, then the absence of separate facilities for them - In contrast to the rooms in the Stabian Baths at Pompeii - would normally have meant that they used the Baths at bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?] times from the men. The heating of the warmer rooms by bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?] in the walls and hypocaust chambers bathcalidariumcoldcolonnadcolumnsCorinthiandifferentfrigidariumfurnaceslaconicalatrinelatrinesmarblednatationorthpalaestrapipesplungesouthsunsupertepidariumundervaultswomen[?] the floors is well illustrated in books.