Underground living

Underground living refers simply to living below the ground's surface, whether in naturally occurring caves or in built structures.

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Besides its obvious novelty, underground living offers additional benefits when compared to living in traditional buildings, such as a nearly constant temperate temperature, quiet, hurricane and tornado resistance, even the ability to obscure the development from the landscape. For this reason, underground living has been both a feature of fiction, such as Hobbiton as described in the stories of J. R. R. Tolkien, and in fact the preferred mode of housing to communities in such extreme environments as Australia's Coober Pedy, Berber caves as those in Matmâta, Tunisia, and even Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Underground living is even being considered for the design of a future base on Mars.

Related Topics:
Hurricane - Tornado - Hobbiton - J. R. R. Tolkien - Australia's - Coober Pedy - Berber - Matmâta, Tunisia - Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station - Mars

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Often, underground living structures are not entirely underground, typically if they are exposed on one side when built into a hill. This exposure can significanly improve interior lighting, although at the expense of greater exposure to the elements.

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