Not your average Hobbit hole: Make Architects' zero carbon underground house

There's more to environmentally-friendly architecture than solar-panels and thermal mass, it's also about designing buildings that are not at-odds with their surroundings - particularly if the building is in the middle of a picturesque landscape. This example form Make Architects ticks both boxes - it uses on-site renewable energy to achieve a zero-carbon design and blends almost seamlessly into the landscape by ignoring convention and, like the residents of The Shire, going underground... Continue Reading Not your average Hobbit hole: Make Architects' zero carbon underground house

Tags: Alternative Energy, Architecture, Building and Construction, Environmentally-friendly, Make Architects, Renewable Energy

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