The Spaceship House -- Pensacola Beach, FL.

Finnish architect Matti Suuronen designed the Futuro house in 1968, initially for use as a ski-cabin or holiday home. He utilized the new plastic technology to create a light, easy to assemble and mobile home. The idea behind the design reflects the optimism of the sixties. 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 designed with kitchen, bathroom, beds and central table. Cooking was done using a portable 'firebox' which could go on the table, or be put away. Steel legs supported the cabin. A door dropped down, spaceship-style to let people in or out.
It could accommodate 8 people. 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 lightweight, 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. Nearly 100 Futuro houses were ever built.

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Posted on Friday, September 12, 2008 06:33:42 am

name: Lisa email: wedpro

I heard the house is now owned by a pensacola Zeta. Is this true? I am an old Zeta myself, married to a Deke who used to live under the spaceship. Glad to see how much you have fixed it up! best of Luck Lisa

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Posted on Tuesday, August 5, 2008 03:43:20 am

name: Anthony email: anthony.g(at)media-ten.com

I organise the Grand Designs Live exhibition twice a year in the United Kingdom. I would like to get in contact with the owner of this house to discuss the potential of supplying me with further details on the house? If you have the owners contact details please forward them to me anthony.g@media-ten.com

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Posted on Thursday, May 1, 2008 06:33:01 pm

name: Boomer email:

Everytime we go vist my grandmother I demand we go past this house. that started when i was 7 years old. I am 19 now and still Want my hosue to look just like it =]

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Posted on Friday, February 29, 2008 07:58:30 pm

name: Guest email:

The rental information link isn't working, can someone please tell me what the price is to rent the spaceship house in Pensacola? Thanks

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Posted on Thursday, October 11, 2007 06:31:28 am

name: g. parker email:

Man, we had some great times there in the early 70's. what memories!!

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