The reinvention of the traditional home ‘bordei’ and its impact on the ru…

This paper aims to present the reinvention of rural underground and half buried houses in the context of the 21st century’s raising cost for energy, environmental concerns and landscape alteration by the growing population, together with today’s urban-rural migration. Rural homes, ‘bordei’ type, had an extensive occurrence in Europe and beyond, found in various forms in different geogra…