WillemsenU submerges house under the ground in the Netherlands

[Celerity]

https://www.dezeen.com/2023/09/27/willemsenu-the-house-under-the-ground-eindhoven/







Dutch studio WillemsenU has completed a house that is partially buried underground to blend in with its rural surroundings in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Appropriately called The House Under the Ground, the home is designed by WillemsenU to "enhance the beauty" of its site and act as a retreat for the couple who own it.









Its design also offers privacy to its occupants, with the sleeping spaces lowered six metres into the ground and the protruding living spaces blanketed with a hill covered in wildflowers. "The surrounding bocage landscape with its small height differences was a huge inspiration," project architect Marrit Winkeler told Dezeen.









"The house is designed as part of this landscape, being part of a hill," added Winkeler. "It is playing with visibility, alternately shielding and opening the view of the nature reserve, creating privacy and shelter from the elements." Located in a meadow on the edge of a protected nature reserve, The House Under the Ground fits within the parameters of a former goat shed.











The part of the house that is visible above ground is defined by its arched shape, which is designed to limit the building's height and merge with the landscape. Its structure is built from concrete cast in situ, while the facades that are left exposed are clad in vertical timber boards.

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[Ocelot II]

1. I didn't know you could have much of anything underground in the Netherlands -

the water table there has got to be pretty high since about a third of it is below sea level. Hope they have an efficient sump pump.

[Celerity]

2. it is in Eindhoven nt

[Sogo]

3. It's a berm house.

There are a lot of those in the Midwest; usually built for insulation from extreme weather.

[Ocelot II]

4. The University of Minnesota has had an underground classroom building

since the late '70s. It's an example of underground Brutalism.

[sl8]

5. Cool.

I still have several books of theirs on earth sheltered design, from the early 80's.

[Celerity]

8. 💙

[True Dough]

6. "Honey,

it's time to trim the roof!"

[BluesRunTheGame]

7. In a hole in the ground there lived a (Brutalist) hobbit...

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”