Futuro

The Futuro is a by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen developed in 1968, largely made ​​of plastic ellipsoidal, standing on a metal stand, 36 m² large round house.

Data

The house is made of fiberglass reinforced polyester with a polyurethane insulation and has a flattened spheroids design. It measures 8 feet in diameter, is 4 meters high and weighs four tons with all facilities. The house can be placed in difficult terrain with transport helicopters. It is electrically heated. In 1968, the house cost 12,000 dollars.

The Futuro was made ​​by the Finnish company Polykem in a small series. There are no clear data on the actual number of produced and still existing houses. Plans for the interior design of According Futuro has more usage options for the house provided, such as as classrooms, hostel or doctor's office Matti Suuronen.

The prototype of the Futuro is in the collection of the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Netherlands. In 2010 it was restored.

Futuro in Germany

The Futuro houses were made ​​in Germany in 1968 by former Langenhagener branch factory of Steffens & Nolle AG and marketed. In Berlin, on the Spree River near the site of the broadcasting of the GDR in Nalepastraße is one of the Futuro houses. It has the serial number 13 This house was founded in 1969 on the state of the Bayer AG exhibited at the Hannover Messe to show the quality of the plastic for the insulation. A Dutch company that had been awarded the contract to provide the first cultural park in the GDR in Treptow, had seen it there, bought it and established it as a park, the radio studio. Today, the Futuro house is privately owned.

Another Futuro was in the 1970s when the action artist Charles Wilp on the roof of his house in Düsseldorf's Wittlaer on the Rhine. Among the visitors this Futuros included Andy Warhol, Arthur Paul, then chief designer of the Playboy, and the packaging artist Christo. Christ it was who this Futuro there in 1970 packaged as part of the art action Wrapped Living Space. In 1973 Wilp was forbidden to leave the Futuro standing on the roof of his house, as it disturbs the cityscape. The Futuro is now used as a chill-out area for researchers in the Arctic.

Another Futuro house stood for nearly 40 years Vlotho; the building was used as a boardroom of a company. End of May 2010 it was transported to Witten. There it is part of the Charles Paul Wilp module or Charles Wilp Space, a museum with works of the advertising professionals in a disused pump house of the local waterworks.

In Frankfurt am Main, in the building of the youth center in the district Nied is a halved yellow Futuro integrated.

In Taunus stone is on a company's premises a white Futuro.

Reception

The Finnish filmmaker Mika Taanila turned the 1998 documentary Futuro - A New Stance for Tomorrow. Even in a comic comes before the Futuro. Buckminster Fuller realized a system based on similar considerations, also industrially pre-produced Dymaxion House.

On the DVD of the documentary Plastic Planet by Werner Boote is among the scenes not used a sequence over a Futuro in Finland.