By Sarah Rich, Source: Inhabitat

underground

Faced with height restrictions when building his family home in London, architect Alex Michaelis decided to go underground instead. Observing a 6-foot limit, he created a light-filled, spacious home that uses the lower climes of the site to achieve the designer’s goals. includes sustainable building strategies such as a green roof, solar panels, radiant heat, thermal wool insulation and double-glazed windows. This home is also amazingly kid-friendly, with a slide built alongside the staircase, and a child-sized natural indoor pool that’s fed with clean, drinkable water from a borehole 300 feet down.

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