Futuro (house)

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Futuro 13, Berlin

The Futuro is an ellipsoidal, 36 m² round house on a metal frame, developed in 1968 by the Finnish architect Matti Suuronen and largely made of plastic .

Data

The house has the shape of a flattened ellipsoid of revolution and is made of fiberglass with a polyurethane insulation. It measures 8 meters in diameter, is 4 meters high and weighs 4 tons with complete equipment. The house can be brought into difficult terrain with transport helicopters. It is heated electrically. In 1968 the house was $ 12,000.

The Futuro was developed by the Finnish company Polykem Ltd. manufactured in a small series, as well as under license in other countries. There is no clear indication of the actual number of houses produced and still in existence. According to the plans for the interior of the Futuro, Matti Suuronen envisaged several uses for the house, e.g. B. as a mountain hut, weekend house, classroom or doctor's office.

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

Futuro in Germany

Futuro No. 13

Futuro in the Kulturpark in the Plänterwald of the GDR in Treptow , 1974

The Futuro houses were manufactured and sold in Germany from 1968 by the former Langenhagen branch of Steffens & Nölle AG. One of the Futuro houses is located in Berlin on the Spree next to the GDR broadcasting site on Nalepastrasse. ⊙ It has the serial number 13. This house was exhibited at the Bayer AG booth at the Hannover Messe in 1969 to show the quality of the plastic used for the insulation. A Dutch company that had received the order to equip the GDR's first culture park in Treptow saw it there, bought it and set up the park radio studio in it . After the Spreepark was closed, the Futuro house was sold in private ownership and transported to the other side of the Spree by crane and barge. The new owner has restored and furnished it with her own funds, the installation in the publicly accessible space was not possible again (as of 2019).

Futuro by Charles Wilp

Another Futuro stood in the 1970s with the action artist Charles Wilp on the roof of his house in the Wittlaer district of Düsseldorf - Bockum am Rhein. Andy Warhol , Arthur Paul , then chief designer of Playboy magazine , and the packaging artist Christo were among the visitors to this future . It was also Christo who packed this Futuro there in 1970 as part of the Wrapped Living Space art campaign . In 1973, Wilp was banned from leaving the Futuro on the roof of his house because it disrupted the cityscape. The Futuro now serves as a chill-out room for researchers in the Arctic.

Futuro at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich

Futuro of the Pinakothek der Moderne

Another Futuro stood in Vlotho for almost 40 years ; the building was used as a boardroom for a company. At the end of May 2010 it was transported to Witten . There it was part of the Charles Paul Wilp Module or Charles Wilp Space, a museum with works by the advertiser in a disused pump house of the local waterworks, which was closed in 2015. This Futuro was bought by the Pinakothek der Moderne , where it can now be seen restored outside. It is a Futuro built under license by Junior SystemBau GmbH.

Futuro in Frankfurt am Main

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

Futuro in Taunusstein

In Taunusstein there is a white Futuro on company premises.

reception

Finnish filmmaker Mika Taanila made the 1998 documentary Futuro - A New Stance for Tomorrow . The futuro also appears in a comic. Buckminster Fuller realized an industrially pre-produced Dymaxion House based on comparable considerations .

On the DVD of the documentary Plastic Planet by Werner Boats there is a sequence about a Futuro in Finland among the unused scenes.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Heisig: steel triangle Tempelhof. Steffens & Nölle . In: District Office Berlin-Tempelhof (Hrsg.): From iron to pralines. The Tempelhof district and its industry. Book accompanying the exhibition . Berlin 2000, p. 91.
  2. ↑ Futuro House - Google Maps. In: google.com. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Ralf Drescher: The UFO on the banks of the Spree . Berlin week. January 25, 2019.
  4. ↑ Documentation in: Charles Wilp: Düsseldorf ‚Vorort der Welt. Dazzledorf. Publisher Melzer, Dreieich, 1977
  5. ↑ Document packaging Christo ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kiasma.fi
  6. ↑ Document disturbance cityscape
  7. ↑ Document chill-out room
  8. ↑ White UFO from Vlotho takes off in the direction of Rhineland ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Vlothoer Anzeiger, May 27, 2010. Retrieved May 30, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vlothoer-anzeiger.de
  9. ↑ Volker K. Belghause: A UFO in Witten . k.west, magazine for art, culture, society, 02/2013 , accessed on July 9, 2017
  10. ↑ Dennis Sohner: Dream of the Wilp Museum in Witten burst. In: WAZ. Retrieved August 13, 2016 .
  11. ^ Futuro in Frankfurt
  12. ↑ Futuro in Taunusstein
  13. ↑ Comic with the Futuro

literature

  • Marko Home, Mika Taanila: Futuro. Tomorrow's House from Yesterday. Desura Books, Finland, 2002. Online
  • Michael Kasiske: From Helsinki to the Plänterwald. The story of Futuro No. 013. In: Bauwelt 46.03, December 5, 2003, 94th year, pp. 28–31
  • Elke Genzel, Pamela, Voigt: plastic structures. Part 1: The Pioneers. Weimar University Press, 2005 [1]

Web links

Commons : Futuro  - collection of images, videos and audio files