Underground
Subterranean spaces, underground architecture, and below-ground design interventions in urban and residential contexts.
Underground design encompasses spaces and structures built beneath ground level, from residential basements to large-scale subterranean facilities. This includes both functional excavation and intentional architectural exploration of subsurface environments.
The community examines underground architecture across multiple scales: adaptive reuse of heritage homes with deep excavation, underground gardens and recreational spaces, subterranean museums and cultural institutions, and the role of underground layers in expanding urban density and flexibility.
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Under Ground: A Ho Chi Minh City Street Market That Turns the Cu Chi Tunnels Into Compression and Release
Dylan Ramage translates the squeeze and release of wartime tunnels into market aisles, a sunken oculus and a green roof built to grow stall by stall.
FLEXIBILITY AND POLYVALENCE — UNDERGROUNDA New Layer in Urban Architecture
A transformative blend of public park and underground space redefining flexibility in urban architecture.
Luigi Rosselli Architects Burrow Four Levels Beneath a Heritage Sydney Home
In Neutral Bay, a Victorian residence designed by Walter Liberty Vernon gains a subterranean world of vaulted pools and stone grottos.
UNDERGARDEN
Underneath a garden in Chicago is a hidden space designed to boost innovation and train the mind to reinterpret our everyday surroundings.
