The Futuro House

Well, it's not modern tech, but in it's day, it was the bleeding edge. Meet the Futuro House:



From a site with pictures of the Futuro House:

Finnish architect Matti Suuronen designed this UFO shaped dwelling in 1968, initially for use as a ski-cabin or holiday home.

The idea behind the design reflects the optimism of the sixties. At the time people believed technology could solve all problems for the human race. The ideal was of a new era, a space-age, where everybody would have more leisure time to spend on holidays away from home.

The Futuro house was completely furnished and could accommodate 8 people. It was constructed entirely out of reinforced plastic, a new, light and inexpensive material back then. The plan was to mass-produce it, so it would be cheap enough to house all people around the earth. Because it was so light-weight, it was easily transportable by helicopter. Mobile living was the new possibility for the future. People could now take their moveable home with them, to wherever they went, and live like modern nomads.

Unfortunately the 1973 oil crisis spoiled all these plans. Prices of plastic raised production costs too high to be profitable. Only 20 Futuro houses were ever built.

I've read that the company which manufactured these sold them out of Playboy magazine in the early 70s, and it was delivered by helicopter to the location of your choice. I want one.

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Kinda cool! :thumb: I think if I lived in that, I would feel like I'm about to take off into space. :D

Originally posted by ladysycamore
Kinda cool! :thumb: I think if I lived in that, I would feel like I'm about to take off into space. :D

if you promise to take sycamore with you, i'll buy you one ;)

That thing looks like a cross between a UFO and a trailer.

I want one of these !

Interesting, although it strikes me as being an upscale urban trailer. And not even a doublewide. And you have to hire a cargocopter to relocate. You can't just hitch it up to the pick-em-up truck and go.

I do prefer it to the futuro house on one count, however. Straight walls. You can hang pictures.

Wolf, didn't you at one time last summer post a pictur of a cement outbuilding, intended to be used for a shelter that looked remarkably similar to the Futuro House? Minus the aliens?

I forget the keywords to search for now. And I lost the bookmark.

Brian

I forget if I was the first one who posted it, or I just did one of the replies. I remember the thing, though. Pod made out of concrete.

That would be one of the bookmarks that perished with my old computer. If I find it, I'll post it.