Futuro. House of the Future
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- www.vernissage.tv | With its distinctive flying saucer like shape Suuronen's Futuro is an icon of 1960s design. In 1965 Matti Suuronen was commissioined to design a mobile holiday home that could be erected in poorly accessible skiing areas. The Futuro is now on display for the first time after its restoration at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen as centerpiece of the exhibition Futuro - Constructing Utopia.
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In 2007, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam / Netherlands came into possession of the prototype of a quite spectacular piece of architecture: Finnish architect Matti Suuronen's Futuro: house of the future.
With its distinctive flying saucer like shape Suuronen's Futuro is an icon of 1960s design. In 1965 Matti Suuronen was commissioined to design a mobile holiday home that could be erected in poorly accessible skiing areas. The Futuro is made from polyester, measures about 3 x 8 meters, and was conceived for serial production. In part due to the oil crisis of 1973 the production was halted prematurely, but there are still a dozens of Futuros spread across the world.
The Futuro is now on display for the first time after its restoration at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen as centerpiece of the exhibition Futuro -- Constructing Utopia, which also presents twenty prints and approximately a hundred design objects from the museum's collection.
On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Futuro -- Constructing Utopia at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen VernissageTV met up with Jonieke van Es. She is Head of Collections & Research at the museum and tells us more about the history and concept of the Futuro, how the prototype came into possession of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and how it was restored, the Futuro's relevance as a design icon, and its future use at the museum.
PS: Another Futuro is being restored currently at the University of Canberra.
coolest house ever. i love tiny homes and this is the ultimate.
Increase the size and make it a double decker, two floors, and you have a very nice home - increase the feet and ladder, so it's up higher and make sure it floats, water tight, and you have a flood and fire and earth quake proof home. (making sure the 'landing gear' are struts that can safely dampen any quakes).
great idea with the landing gear. Elon Musk would add some engines too, I guess.
So cool. There's one on top of a house on Pensacola Beach, Florida. It used to be so exciting when I was a kid. My sister and I would ask our parents to drive us down there to look at the "spaceship" house. This was back in 1970. Now I know the backunusual
Very nice. Great video.
There’s one about an hour’s drive from where i live and i just happened to pass by it without knowing what it was at first. Turns out i just so happened to pass by one out of two in my entire state lmao. Such a weird and interesting structure
I personally think that this thing should fly. And represents the final look of this cute house .
some people that live near my aunts house have one of these!!
Это прекрасный дом. С удовольствием купил бы его сейчас .
i would really like to live in one of these.....
Same here.
me too lmao
There's one of these near me in North Central Texas
I see a future for structures of this type, from expanding office space in downtown areas to enabling population expansion that has a minimal impact on the environment.
Yeah. Hasn’t happened
@@addicted49 Wow, it's wild to see a comment that I posted 7 years ago. Back when I was young, optimistic, and I saw potential everywhere I looked.
I agree!
Fantastic. Is there any more information on the other objects briefly mentioned in the video positioned around the Futuro in this exhibit?
i went inside one in the early 70s,and beam me up scotty!.
It looks like a reject from the movie 2001, love it!!!!
me too!
(What a lovely lady!) Round houses would, I'd think, all share the same problem: putting "square" furniture in 'em (dressers, etc.) would be awkward. This would, indeed, be enjoyable for what its designer intended -- but not for a permanent living space.
No problem. Learn to build your own furniture and save a bundle. Have you seen the insane prices of furniture lately?
There are an estimated 18 of these left in the world. There is one in Tampa on the roof of a strip club. It gives a whole new meaning to the term "High Art."
Wat koste een basic futuro !?
The lady says that it is made of polyester and I got stuck at that point. I am actually here deliberately - as in I went searching for a few videos about this house because I've been reading a bunch of information about the Futuro on a dedicated fan site.
That said, everything that I have read so far has said that it is made from fiberglass. Fiberglass is sometimes embedded into resins, as far as I know. To be clear, I should be assumed to be completely ignorant on the subject just to make this easier. Assume that I know nothing and, to be frank, I don't really know much at all about this.
Now, polyester is a complex hydrocarbon, right? Is it one of the more generic terms where there's multiple types? Is it the same material that they used to make disco dancers more slick? Is it a language issue where the use in her native language is different than the usage here in the US?
I've seen the molds that were used to make the individual parts to the house and they look like the standard fiberglass molds that they use to make fiberglass boats. They didn't look special and they are pretty old, so don't think they're using some sort of high pressure injection molding or anything like that back then.
Anyone have any more information about this? How is this polyester, specifically? Given the little that I know (assume that I know nothing), it seems that polyester could be in a resin form and be the 'fiber' part of fiberglass. I am guessing that's it but I don't really know and am kind of curious.
I have read that they're rather flimsy panels but that they are stronger when they're fully assembled due to the shape and the bracing. Would that have something to do with the fiber portion being polyester? A couple of quick Google searches aren't really helping but I'm not really sure what to look for. I imagine that there are different grades and chemical changes (molecular?) that result in differing qualities of polyester but I have no idea what those would be called and what search terms would help me out.
Meh, someone here might know.
Galen Gregory, we had a campground here in Pennsylvania that had Futuro Houses as cabins and they were made of aluminum with fiberglass cladding.
In the 1960's to the 1970's these Futuro Houses were built to customer ordered specifications making them unique inside but externally they were UFO shaped due to the space craze of the era.
The prototype in this video likely used polyester just because it's inexpensive for demostration.
cool!
50 of them exist in the world.
There's one in Milton delaware and one in greenwich nj...weird
They stopped making Futuro Houses in the 80's.
excelent design
Check out Area 55 in Joshua Tree! Futuro!
Thanks for letting me know!
Its my neighbor and I help manage it
👍👍👍👍👍for her haircut
It has been turned in to a kind of dinner lol
Is this House Tsunami proof??
Needs a Flux Liner propulsion system haha
Now make it fly!
this is freezers space ship from dbz 😅
There is one at an antique shop by saint Lewis
It would make a great man cave in my back yard.
theres 1 in Pensacola also.
Take my money NOW
@drstrangeclock yes, it's like a time travel back to the future of the 1960s :-)
I saw one of these and I was like "DA FUQ"
Why don't you see any of these in the original nuketown?
Its been 9 yeaaaaaaars
There were over 100 built.
If it could fly then you would have something. You could leave an area in case of a flood, hurricane, or other natural disaster.
that would really be something
Where is it located now?! So cool 🤩
I don't know if this specific one is still in Rotterdam, but here's a list of locations: www.thefuturohouse.com
@@vernissagetv thank you! 🙏🏼
Its a dragon ball space pod
Look like UFO. But it's Futuro
San Zhi district dont passed the test...
This is basically a spaceship as they saw it back then, it's not revolutionary though.
I mean kewl I hate autocorrect -.-
I wish i could take a crap in one
I hope peopple do not lives in shelters like this on the future.. Of. Thinking it could be cool you are crazy
Jew lol
It looks like a UFO
no shit sherlock
Its supposed to be a UFO it was in the 1960s so no shit Sherlock
Awoken light, when it was designed in the 1960's the Futuro Houses were inspired by People's fascination with space science fiction movies and mankind's interest in sending men into space.
How do you open those windows for ventilation? Where do you mount the curtains?
68' same year that the film, 2001 a space odyssey dropped, wow, the look is so similar..
Its too small
In black ops 1
Not planned inside at all.
LAME OLD HOME!
I could live in this.
Dope channel!!
Awesome stuff!!
I'm lost can you help me?
How did I get here?
Why is everyone looking at me!?!
When in Rome...
It's a pattern in the pants...
Don't stare at me!!