Futuro under repair.. can you guess where it is? ;) (Taken 09-06-06, thank you Donna, added: 09-12-17)
See small archive of material [in pdf format] from Hedberg Public Library in Janesville, WI.
This site is dedicated to the Futuro [aka Flying Saucer or UFO] House.
Looking to purchase any material on the Futuro!! Please CONTACT me!!
Architect: Matti Suuronen
Country of Origin: Finland
Year: 1968
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The Finnish architect Matti Suuronen designed and built a series of ovaloid,
flying-saucer-like houses out of fibreglass in the late 1960s.
He called them Futuro. Suuronen’s houses were comfortably large but light
enough to be carried to remote sites by helicopter.
The Futuro is approx. 11 feet high and 26 feet across. A hatch door in its lower half opened down to reveal steps, like the door of a small airplane, and led into a room outfitted with six plastic bed-chair combinations and a central fireplace slab, as well as a kitchenette, a bathroom and one small bedroom. Many say the demise of the Futuro was due to the high prices oil reached in the early 1970s', which sent the price of plastic skyrocketing, along with changing fashions. I personally think it was the lack of closet space which really turned off most women.. and of course the men could not convince them that this was a wise purchase. There are about 96 Futuros out there somewhere and hopefully they can all be accounted for one way or another. |
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