UFO House/Futuro Flying Saucer Home (Axis Video)

UFO House/Futuro Flying Saucer Home<br /><br />There were not many produced. This one lies in Hancock Harbor Marina, Greenwich, NJ<br /><br />This one is only the shell of a Futuro flying saucer home<br /><br />The portable, prefabricated home design from 1968 is by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen<br /><br />Matti Suuronen (June 14, 1933-April 16, 2013) was a Finnish architect who is best known for making the Futuro and the Venturo houses.<br /><br />Futuro Houses, these 20th Century prefabricated homes are often referred to as "UFO Houses"<br /><br />Fewer than 100 were built during the late 1960s and early 1970s<br /><br />They originally intended to be used as mobile skiing cabins<br /><br />The Futuro was too radical and unacceptable tastes of the public who demanded that houses resemble the houses they remembered from their childhood. <br /><br />In several cases, wives threatened to divorce their husbands if they did not cancel their orders of Futuro houses because, as they put it, “I don’t want to be associated with a man who would dare to have such a weird house."<br /><br />One Futuro house was found to be biodegrading by Cyanobacteria and Archaea<br /><br />"Comfortable Mystery 4" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) <br />Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0<br />http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/<br /><br />"Second Coming-No Percussion" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) <br />Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0<br />http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/<br /><br />©2018 Axis Video