Kentucky's Tomorrow's House from Yesterday
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chstress53
N 39° 05.284 W 084° 31.595
16S E 713925 N 4329461
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.
Waymark Code: WM3B0
Location: Kentucky, United States
Date Posted: 11/03/2005
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Perched halfway up no-outlet Wright Street in West Covington, this out-of-this-world appearing structure is surrounded by small trees and bushes and is somewhat worse for wear
The front gate is held shut with a piece of looped off clothesline, and the lock apparently is no longer doing its job.
The spaceship house, is visible from the Brent Spence Bridge.
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 96 Futuro houses were ever built.
http://www.futurohouse.com/
http://www.futuro-house.net/
