You'd notice the height of the 1st storey is only half of that of the 2nd storey. You are right: half of the 1st storey is actually underground. I don't know why it's built that way but it's definitely built as a basement because there's a grand staircase at the facade which leads you straight to the 2nd storey.
Maybe it's for some fengshui reasons or more likely, geographic reasons: the building (originally a house) is quite near the sea so if there's ever a flood water would go into the basement instead of the living quarters on the 2nd storey.
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