Venturo
Venturo or Venturo House is a prefabricated house designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in 1971. It is composed of fiberglass-reinforced polyester plastic, polyester-polyurethane, and acrylic glass. In the late 1960s Suuronen became known for his round-shaped Futuro House and now wanted to create a new "weekend cottage".[1] Venturo House was a part of Suuronen's 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.[2]
Venturo House is a modular, 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 sauna and the other including the filler pieces.[3]
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.[1] As the 1973 oil crisis hit, only 19 Venturo Houses were manufactured by the Finnish company . However, the license was sold to 23 companies around the world and some houses were presumably produced in Japan.[4]
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- ^ a b Summary in English Kivik Art Center. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
- ^ Casa Finlandia huoltoasema Suomi Tour, 21 July 2012. (in Finnish). Retrieved 5 October 2014.
- ^ Wayback Machine 1971: The Venturo Prefab Treehugger. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
- ^ Casa Finlandia Venturo Suomi Tour, 8 September 2012. (in Finnish). Retrieved 5 October 2014.
External links[]
- atlasobscura.com, a cluster of Venturo and Futuro houses in Wanli, Taiwan
- Prefabricated houses
- Houses in Finland
- Modernist architecture in Finland