University of Hong Kong professors John Lin, Olivier Ottevaere and Lidia Ratoi have worked with students to overhaul an underground house in northern China, suggesting a new future for these traditional dwellings.
Underground House of the Future is a complete rebuild of a house in Zhangbian Township, a village in the Loess Plateau in Henan Province, where people traditionally dig their homes out of the earth.
Their revamped version features complex brick vaults, 3D-printed terraces and a tensile netted canopy, to make the building safer, more versatile and more resilient to climate change.
The project was developed in partnership with the local municipality and funded through Project Mingde, a foundation that sits under the University of Hong Kong’s civil engineering department.
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