Venturo or Venturo House is a

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house designed by Finnish architect

Matti Suuronen Matti Suuronen (14 June 1933 – 16 April 2013) was a Finnish architect and designer who is best known for designing the Futuro and Venturo homes in the Casa Finlandia series. The marvelous design of the Futuro went into production in both F ...

in 1971. It is composed of fiberglass-reinforced polyester plastic, polyester-

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, and

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. In the late 1960s Suuronen became known for his round-shaped

Futuro A Futuro house, or Futuro Pod, is a round, prefabricated house designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen, of which fewer than 100 were built during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The shape, reminiscent of a flying saucer, and the structure' ...

House and now wanted to create a new "weekend cottage".Summary in English
Kivik Art Center. Retrieved 5 October 2014. Venturo House was a part of Suuronen's Casa Finlandia series, known as the model CF-45. Other models were CF-100/200 (1969) and CF-10 (1970), number indicating the floor area in square meters. Venturo House is a

modular Broadly speaking, modularity is the degree to which a system's components may be separated and recombined, often with the benefit of flexibility and variety in use. The concept of modularity is used primarily to reduce complexity by breaking a s ...

, insulated and transportable building system. The walls and top are made of double-layer fiberglass with two inches thick polyurethane foam and the floor is made of plywood. The floor area is 45 m² and the house weighs four tons. It was shipped in two modules, one containing the bathroom, kitchen and

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and the other including the filler pieces.Wayback Machine 1971: The Venturo Prefab
Treehugger. Retrieved 5 October 2014. Venturo was originally thought as a weekend house or bungalow but they were also used as small shops and retail kiosks. Three Venturos were imported to Sweden and used as gas stations for BP. As the 1973 oil crisis hit, only 19 Venturo Houses were manufactured by the Finnish company Oy Polykem Ab. However, the license was sold to 23 companies around the world and some houses were presumably produced in Japan.Casa Finlandia Venturo
Suomi Tour, 8 September 2012. (in Finnish). Retrieved 5 October 2014.

References

{{Reflist Prefabricated houses Houses in Finland Modernist architecture in Finland

External links

atlasobscura.com
a cluster of Venturo and Futuro houses in Wanli, Taiwan