ABSTRACT
There are houses that do not soar on the horizon, but hide themselves into the terrain. Of course this typology of dwellings can’t have the same features of traditional vertical constructions: they simply have a different perspective and development. This isn’t a new way of living but it comes from the past, when it was important to disappear to save oneself. Examples of underground spaces can be found starting from caves digged in the ground around a courtyard with corridors and rooms that connect one another into a net of spaces with different use, to newly projected homes with large windows looking onto a subterranean patio.
