Architecture

This is the Dune House, located in Atlantic Beach, Florida. It was made by the architect William Morgan in 1975 and is actually a duplex. He decided that he wanted to have an unobstructed view of the beach and the best way for him to accomplish that was to build his home into the sand dune that was there. I honestly love these types of houses that are built into or underneath the ground. I've always loved J.R.R. Tolkien and the "hobbit style" homes that his writing created. The fact that they can be so spacious but also conserve energy is just so great to me and one day, I would love to stay in that type of house or even possible be able to own one myself. I included the floor plan, which you can see below, just to illustrate the way that the house is laid out and the type of space that it actually does have on the inside.