Is it possible to found a single-family house without concrete and earthworks?

Regardless of why to tear down a basement and rebuild when the old basement still has good substance.

Oh, proper "old" houses, solid. Also good reasons, just different from what I thought.


Exactly. Foundation and house connections "for free," plus as a bonus a storage room that doesn’t count towards floor area ratio/floor space ratio. And demolition saved.

And people used to be able to build back then too

I belong to the nostalgics who like to claim that less sloppy work was done in the past