In order to meet the requirements of maintaining the original condition of rock faces, avoiding the heavy excavation to protect the ground environment, and reducing support cost of large-span shallow buried cavern, a new supporting method of shallow- buried caverns was proposed in this paper. Such a supporting method was successfully applied to the underground cavern project. For this project, some crisscross small tunnel sheds were embedded in the overburden layer. As a result, the interaction between the surrounding rock and supporting structure can play a significant role in the constructed supporting system, and the surrounding rock can display its self load-bearing capacity in the shallow buried cavern.
