What Lies
Beneath
The world’s population is growing at an alarming rate causing our cities
to become increasingly overcrowded and congested. Throughout the
21st century developers and planners have managed to handle this
expansion by building larger and taller skyscrapers that seem to reach
high into the sky, blotting out the light and casting an eerie shadow on
the ground below.
W
hile building upwards is the obvious
choice for space-conscious urban development, would it be possible to take the
opposite approach and dig downwards
to find new space? Over the past few years we have
witnessed the growing trend in ‘iceberg expansions’
where immense basement extensions have added to
the property footprint increasing its size without affecting the buildings and gardens above. So could this
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concept be used to create a family home? YES, is the
answer in fact, this environmentally-conscious living
trend is pretty hot right now.
While many of us associate underground living as dark
and damp places akin to that of a war-type bunker
they are in fact bright, airy, spacious houses that are
really no different than any other home except for the
obvious of being built into the earth.