10 underground homes that are crazy cool

This home, designed by Bercy Chen Studio, is based on Native American pit houses, which used thermal heating with their design.

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This looks like a nice sitting room with a few TVs but it’s actually inside an old missile silo in New York. The listing mentions it stays around 10-13 degrees all year and is “relatively” dry.

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Another selling point: it’s the only silo, which has functional main blast doors. Semi-functional blast doors won’t cut it for today’s missile silo buyer who wants protection against all kinds of nuclear attack.

William Morgan, a modernist architect, designed this duplex in the ’70s and it quickly caught the attention of many. It even led to Playboy using the duplex built into a sand dune in an issue. There are no right angles with the house and a nautilus shell inspired the interior design. Each duplex is 70 square metres with lofted bedrooms and closets built into the wood-panelled walls.

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A search for commercial property turned into a lot with a cave for Curt and Deborah Sleeper back in 2003. It took four years for the couple to build their offices and home. In the meantime they lived in a big dehumidified tent inside the cave, which once served as a roller skating rink. The couple faced considerable hurdles with getting fresh air and meeting egress requirements, it’s all quite the story.

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The pool possibility looks cool but where’s it located? This home sits below ground in Las Vegas and is one of two underground houses on a 0.6 hectare lot. The site does have an above-ground home for those accustomed to living on street level.

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In 1980 we featured the “Underground Home” a residence in Minnesota, USA. At that time around 3,000 people owned underground homes. Don Mosch took part in pioneering the housing concept perfect for an energy conscious era. It was one of seven homes built and tested by the Underground Space Center at the University of Minnesota.

It was a three bedroom, 186-metre home that held a number of temperature sensors and gauges to measure humidity inside and out, as well as calculate energy consumption to the last watt. Some years later we now have these amazing devices that will turn your abode into a smart home.

The house faced south and was surrounded by a berm. It reportedly cut heating costs by 50 to 85 percent. The underground homes were nearly hurricane and tornado proof, as well as fireproof. Because of that, insurance costs dropped 35 percent. The cost to build the home remained on par as conventional homes.

Much of the home was built with concrete, which presented problems of its own. Plus, once the home was built, there was no chance for additions.

In Coober Pedy, an opal mining town in the center of the South Australian desert, more than half the residents live in underground houses to survive the scorching heat of the desert and freezing winters. Some are built into caves, or hills – or like this one, an old mine shaft – with the temperature indoors staying a manageable 23 degrees all year round.

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This home in Wales get dubbed the Teletubby House because it bears a resemblance to the old TV character. The chimney of the home looks like the antenna of the teletubbies. It sits underground and has a grass roof.

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Source: RD.com