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Subterranean Architecture As A Sustainable Solution For Urban Spaces

Subterranean architecture can provide a sustainable solution for urban spaces by utilizing underground space. Developing underground structures can help address issues of urban congestion and climate challenges while saving costs over surface buildings. Past examples demonstrate benefits like added space and natural protection underground. However, subsurface potential remains underleveraged in a coordinated way for infrastructure. The study aims to analyze subterranean architecture techniques for public domains and formulate solutions to enhance sustainability and address current disadvantages. It will focus on international examples due to more extensive underground development abroad.

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Subterranean Architecture As A Sustainable Solution For Urban Spaces

Subterranean architecture can provide a sustainable solution for urban spaces by utilizing underground space. Developing underground structures can help address issues of urban congestion and climate challenges while saving costs over surface buildings. Past examples demonstrate benefits like added space and natural protection underground. However, subsurface potential remains underleveraged in a coordinated way for infrastructure. The study aims to analyze subterranean architecture techniques for public domains and formulate solutions to enhance sustainability and address current disadvantages. It will focus on international examples due to more extensive underground development abroad.

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SUBTERRANEAN ARCHITECTURE AS A

SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION FOR URBAN


SPACES
INTRODUCTION
• Subterranean structures are constructions placed beneath the surface of the earth.

• Any building that is planned to be erected partially or entirely underground and is intended to be used
various needs rather than a cellar, substructure, or foundation for a building is referred to as an underground
structure.

• Underground structure construction is on the rise in most industrialized countries, owing to cost savings over
surface structures, technical or industrial necessity, urban development conditions, and military considerations.

• The benefit of underground space, in addition to providing additional space, is the natural protection it
supplies to whatever is placed underground.

• The optimum use of available underground space to expand infrastructural facilities beneath the earth in
hopes of preventing surface congestion and sustainability considerations would be what underground space
development in cities ensure.

• Structures could be built underground in areas with harsh climatic circumstances, such as sudden drops in
air temperature, hurricane winds, long downpours, and mudflows, or in areas with steep topography.

• So far, the subsurface space has not been leveraged in a synchronized approach for urban infrastructure.
INTRODUCTION
• As a consequence, developing countries experience difficulties in finding solutions that are functional,
accessible, and locally acceptable, as well as alternatives that can be implemented at a scale that
continues to improve with the mounting concerns.

• In industrialized nations, underground or subsurface facilities have been established to cope with
comparable situations.

• It also has a great deal of potential in developing countries like India


AIM
• To understand and analyze the use of subterranean structures and its benefits over other conventional
technique in the context of urban spaces and how it can contribute in transforming public areas towards
urban footprint reduction and achieving sustainability
OBJECTIVES
• To study the benefits of subterranean architecture and how it has been put to used in the past and also in
the present

• To discuss the possibilities of designing public spaces considering the principles of sub ground architecture

• To analyze the effectiveness of subterranean architecture techniques while implementing it on the public
domain.

• To formulate solutions for solving the present disadvantages and enhancing sustainability though the
adaptation of underground architecture
SCOPE

• The extend of the study will be limited to an overview of the methods of subterranean
architecture, its various impacts and benefits when it comes to the public domain.
LIMITATION

• The study will be extended to examples and projects that are internationally available
since, subterranean architecture is more profoundly considered in developed countries than
is developing countries like India.
REFERENCE
•https://www.readkong.com/page/think-deep-planning-development-and-use-of-underground-2665993

• Think Deep: Planning, development and use of underground space in cities- book by ICOCARP

•https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/architectural-styles/a4121-what-is-subterranean-architecture

• https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/subterranean-architecture-slideshow

• https://www.encyclopedia.com/international/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/step-wells-india

• https://www.academia.edu/6118418/Invisible_Architecture

• Invisible Architecture – book by LindsayBermner

• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262012073_Report_on_Underground_Solutions_for_Urban_Problems

• Legacy of subground architecture – MayankGarg

• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337050819_Green_Design_and_Sustainable_Architecture

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