We are visiting some very interesting characters who have shown interest in our Aeronautics Center. They propose to place their aircraft of various classes on the shore of the Glazov Reservoir in order to offer tourists an unforgettable experience of free flight. But guests of the Suzdal Ecopark need accommodation that matches their mood. And houses in the shape of a UFO are perhaps the best solution.
There are many links on the Internet to residential "flying saucers", but I would like to talk first of all about the experience of our compatriots. For example, in one of the gardening partnerships in the Krasnoarmeysky district of Volgograd, Viktor Marinin built a house in the shape of a UFO. This was reported by the resource http://www.vlg.rodgor.ru/, text and photo by Sergei Bobylev.
A flying saucer landed between the beds
The “plate”, measuring 7 meters in diameter, in the middle of fruit trees and tomato beds, looks as unusual as if a real guest from distant galaxies had landed in her summer cottage. Volgograd resident Viktor Marinin, a man with enormous creative potential and ebullient energy, came up with the idea to build a house in the shape of a UFO. At just over 60 years old, he flies a paraglider, collects vintage cars, and runs a website on SUVs on the Internet.
The idea of a house in the shape of a flying saucer appeared back in the 80s, when it was forbidden to build buildings higher than one floor in dachas. And such a house was not subject to any prohibitions,” Viktor Viktorovich explains the practical side of the issue, although he later admits that in his youth he really loved reading science fiction by Alexander Belyaev and Isaac Azimov. And when the fashion for UFOs and aliens began, the book “star wars” were embodied in reinforced concrete on our native six hundred square meters.
Victor Marinin's house is a hollow ellipse standing on a round base, like a mushroom on a stalk. And so that the structure, which seems very unstable in appearance, does not fall, it is held underground by a massive foundation.
The Ostankino Tower was built using the same “tumbler” principle, explains Marinin. - The heaviest part of it is at the bottom, and therefore it is impossible to knock it down.
With your own hands
Viktor Viktorovich came up with the design of the plate house himself. He is an engineer by training, for a long time I worked as a chief mechanic at the Volgograd Oil Refinery, and there I had to deal with such complex equipment that constructing a “flying saucer” turned out to be a piece of cake.
“I made formwork from boards in the form of two ellipses of different sizes, between which concrete had to be poured,” says the plate builder. - And on the advice of friends, I lubricated the entire surface with a special compound so that the concrete would not stick to the boards when it dries, and it could be easily separated from the formwork.
Anyone can make a UFO house using this drawing. Get to work!
But for some reason it turned out the other way around! The concrete gripped the boards tightly, and Victor had to use a jackhammer to crush half of the future house into crumbs.
The second attempt to fill part of the “plate” with concrete turned out to be more successful, and there were no problems with the “lid” at all. Using a crane, Marinin hoisted one part of the “UFO” onto another and secured them with concrete. Ready!
Construction took about a week, shares Viktor Viktorovich. - When the neighbors left the dacha on Sunday, there was only a support for the future “plate” on my site. And when we returned back on Friday, the house was already built!
Children are delighted
Inside, the house-plate is divided into three compartments: kitchen, bedroom and living room. There are chest benches along the wall. You can store your summer cottage supplies there and relax on occasion. On the outside, Victor painted the plate with silver, and it looks like it is made of “winged metal.”
At first, Viktor Viktorovich’s wife didn’t like the unusual country house too much, but then she came to terms with it. But the children were always completely delighted with the flying saucer that landed at the dacha!
Did you know that... saucer houses have astronomical prices?
There are several residential buildings in the shape of flying saucers in the USA and Japan. A couple of years ago, one of them, built back in 1970 after the release of the Star Trek series, was sold at auction. The price jumped to 100 thousand dollars!
Let me remind you that guest houses for ecotourism must comply with green building regulations. Ideally, we need a “smart eco-lodge” that provides privacy, safety, environmental friendliness, energy efficiency and “100%” comfort for tourists. So if anyone has ideas for creating such a guest house, please respond. The house should include two isolated bedrooms, a fireplace room with a micro-kitchen and a stained glass window, a bathroom, shower and sauna.
Continuing the topic: this house was built in Pavlov Posad, Moscow region.
House - a flying saucer in Naro-Fominsk.
The flying saucer house will go under the hammer
A flying saucer house located in Tennessee has been put up for auction on eBay. The house itself is located in the foothills, above the road leading to the top of Chattanooga Signal Mountain. “The Plate” was built back in 1970, the same time the Star Trek series was released. According to representatives of the auction, 100 thousand are already being offered for the house.
This house is still considered a striking architectural example, and in those days it was super fashionable. The building is built in the shape of a flying saucer and fully justifies this name, because it has a round shape, small square porthole windows and even its own landing strip - a light path leading to the house. A retractable staircase leads inside, which can be retracted at the touch of a button.
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The house put up for auction in the United States will appeal to all fans of science fiction. The fact is that the building is built in the shape of a flying saucer.
The house “landed” on a mountainside in Tennessee in 1970 on the wave of popularity of space themes. On Saturday it will go into the possession of the highest bidder on eBay. 
Ultra-modern for those times, the house rises above the surface of the earth on six “legs”. The entrance is designed in the form of a ladder that extends at the touch of a button. The home has three bedrooms, two bathrooms and several small square windows.
At the moment, the maximum bet on a “flying saucer” is 100 thousand dollars, reports ASSOCIATED PRESS. 
In the US state of Tennessee, a house in the shape of a flying saucer is for sale, AP reports.
This house appeared on the road leading to Signal Mountain, near the city of Chattanooga in 1970, just as the legendary TV series Star Trek ended on television. The round house, considered ultra-modern at the time of construction, has small square windows, lights and stands on six pillars.
The house is multi-level, there are three bedrooms, two bathrooms. The entrance staircase retracts at the touch of a button.
Realtor Terry Posey, who is handling the sale, says the current owner has only owned the house for four months. They are allegedly already offering $100,000 for the house.
John Klieman of Littsfield, Connecticut, who is a big space enthusiast, says he knows of flying saucer-shaped houses in Florida, Connecticut and California. They appeared during the American landing on the moon. “It was fashionable back then,” says Klieman.
Unusual shape house in Chattanooga also determined its interior: the ceiling is sloping and the side walls are low. The house is larger than the prefabricated and mobile UFO-shaped structures known as Futuro buildings, which were designed by Finnish architect Matti Sueronen in 1968.
The house was built by a certain Curtis King, who has already died, and his family, because they liked everything unusual, writes www.factnews.ru.
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And here is another house in the same spirit: 
The weird and wonderful Sanzhi Pod-City, made up of UFO houses (so named because of their flying saucer-like shape), is a now abandoned resort complex in Taiwan. Sanzhi Pod-City was originally positioned as a recreation center for American military personnel who were stationed in East Asian countries.
The original idea to create a town of UFO houses came to an employee of the Sanjhih Township plastics company, which produces plastics, Yu-Ko Jou. The first construction license was issued in 1978. The design was developed by Matti Suronen, an architect from Finland. Alas, construction stopped in 1980 when Yu-Jou went bankrupt.
After his company was declared bankrupt in 1980, work on the project was stopped. Attempts to revive the project failed. Several accidents and accidents occurred, which many superstitious people attributed to the fact that a certain Chinese shrine was damaged during construction work. Many also believe that the area was haunted. One way or another, as a result, the entire town was abandoned, construction work remained unfinished, and soon Sanzhi Pod-City became a ghost town.
The buildings were slated for demolition in late 2008, despite petitions for one of the buildings to be preserved and turned into a museum. Demolition work began on December 29, 2008. 
1. Orange “flying saucer”. In a town that stood abandoned for 28 years and is now called nothing less than “the ruins of the future.”
2. Yellow “flying saucer”.
3. Swimming pool.
4. View from the window of one of the “flying saucer” houses. Due to its unusual architecture and dubious reputation as a ghost town, Sanzhi Pod-City's fame quickly spread and the abandoned town eventually became a tourist attraction. However, the destruction continued
5. Swimming pool in the abandoned flying saucer city Sanzhi Pod-City, Taipei, Taiwan.
6. Reflection in a broken window.
7. The project was abandoned in 1980 due to financial losses, lack of investment and a large number of deaths and accidents during construction.
8. The vandals didn’t have to wait long.
9. During construction, the unusual town even appeared on television - it was often used as a location for filming, including on MTV.
10. View from the roof of one of the houses.
11. Inside the houses there is now destruction and desolation.
12. Legend says that the unfortunate fate of the town may be a consequence of the fact that in order to expand the access road during construction, an ancient Chinese shrine - a sculptural image of a dragon - was disturbed.
13. Others believe the area was a former burial ground for Dutch soldiers, after the Netherlands made Taiwan a colony in 1624.
14. What is this – a playground for little aliens?
15. Even now, the abandoned city invariably attracts tourists and other curious people.
16. Fans of unusual photographs often come here.
17. The town stood abandoned for almost thirty years.
18. In some ways, these houses resemble the locations of some computer game.
19. There were rumors that many people saw ghosts near the abandoned city. In addition, it is known about large quantities unexplained traffic accidents on nearby roads.
20. One of the builders who participated in the creation of the unusual town said that there were many rumors, but most of them were false: “First of all, there are probably no ghosts here.”
21. There were also rumors that more than 20 thousand skeletons were discovered in this area when construction work began, and that several brutal murders took place in the new building.
22. “There are no ghosts or anything like that here,” assures one of the builders. According to him, such rumors are an inevitable evil of any new building, especially a large-scale one.
Futuro House looks more like an alien spaceship than a human home. In 1968 it was designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen. A house in the shape of a flying saucer is well suited for the role of a mountain chalet, a house in the backyard or in the forest on the edge. The radical design of Futuro House was successful and continues to live on today.
Matti Suuronen's flying saucer house was sold as a kit that could be easily assembled and installed on almost any terrain. Its plastic construction and futuristic aesthetic are recognizable decades later. And most importantly, Futuro House easy to disassemble, move to a new location, and reassemble.
The base of the alien house from the Finnish architect is a metal ring on four legs, which can be installed on a site with a surface slope of up to 20 degrees. This eliminates the need to carry out preparatory work at the moving site.
While the supporting legs of the Futuro House are made of forged metal, the shell of the future house is made of new for that period building material– reinforced fiberglass plastic. The motivation for this choice was the creator’s desire to reduce weight as much as possible - if necessary, the Futuro House can be transported by helicopter, without even disassembling it. Reinforced fiberglass plastic turned out to be a good choice with good thermal insulation. It can also be easily shaped into rounded elements of the home for an ultra-modern, early space-age look.
The main entrance to Futuro House is a hatch in the lower part of the plastic building, which can be reached via a metal ladder. Living space only 50 sq. m., however, the house in the form of a flying saucer from Matti Suuronen does not suffer much from this and has a good layout: it has a spacious living room, a combined dining room and kitchen, a toilet and a separate bedroom. In addition to the metal base, the assembly kit included eight identical plastic elements - four for the lower part and four for the upper part. They can be easily transported to site separately and secured together. Once the design was adapted for mass production, Matti Suuronen created special furniture, so the alien spaceship was sold fully furnished.
Matti Suuronen was proud that he was able to create a house with low production costs, adapted to any operating conditions. He hoped to solve the problem of housing shortages around the world with the help of Futuro House, but his flying saucers never became a truly mass product.
Total less than 100 houses released Futuro House before production stopped in 1973. The reason for the collapse of Suuronen's space idyll was oil crisis, which made plastic a prohibitively expensive building material. There are about sixty Futuro Houses left around the world in various states of preservation, used for various purposes.
Although they did not become the new standard in affordable housing, Matti Suuronen's spirit of ingenuity lives on today in new innovative building projects. Created over fifty years ago, house flying saucer Futuro House, with its elegant and simple geometry, still attracts attention today - it still looks modern and stylish.
Photo | Flying saucer house Futuro House by Matti Suuronen
The photo is from 1969. Sweden. Here's the reason for all this:
Everyone more or less knows what Finnish houses are. Houses are like houses. Wooden, prefabricated, in general - ordinary. But not all Finnish houses are like this. In the late 1960s, an architect from Finland designed houses in the shape of flying saucers. Space Finnish houses. Wow.
Needless to say, in those years humanity was simply obsessed with space, which its representatives successfully began to conquer.
It seemed that from that moment on the future had arrived - exactly what science fiction writers predicted.
People in a state of euphoria had the feeling that various futuristic innovations were coming into use almost every day. Yesterday we flew into space, today we will put robots to work, and tomorrow we will drive flying cars into garages.
Matti Suuronen looked colorful (photo arcspace.com)
Literally everything had to correspond to the new “cosmic” world. Vehicles, household appliances and much more began to take on the shape of rockets, and people mentally tried on the uniform of space travelers.
It is clear that the dwellings could no longer resemble rectangular boxes. We needed houses in the spirit of the era. And they appeared.
In 1968, Finnish architect Matti Suuronen made his name famous by creating a house in the shape of a “flying saucer.” Elliptical windows, flowing interior lines in intricate waves, all-round visibility and a kitchen reminiscent of a compartment spaceship.
By the way, the door to the dwelling opened like a ladder - it fell down.
Against the backdrop of numerous reports of UFO sightings, many had no doubts about imminent contact with extraterrestrial civilizations.
Suuronen did not try to explain his fantasies with logic. The convenience and rationality of such a house, compared to a traditional home, are debatable. Take furniture, for example. You can’t put an oak wardrobe in a round house.
This means that all the details of the situation had to be reinvented, which, however, was not a problem - there were more than enough “space” design solutions in those years. Even in Finland.
“Futuro” on Dombay during the USSR, height 3 thousand meters (photo phinnweb.com)
By the way, at first the architect did not impose his concept as new form housing - he assumed that the structure would be used as a ski lodge or something like that.
Then his plans changed, and the flightless saucer was called the ideal country house where a small family could spend a vacation or weekend.
The project acquired more and more new details and acquired the appropriate name - “Futuro”.
The Finnish dreamer hardly thought about the choice of material - not long before he built a granary dome in Seinajoki with a diameter of eight meters from plastic.
He chose the same polyester with fiberglass now.
Moreover, this material was inexpensive. Matti believed that his creation would be available to all inhabitants of the planet, which means it would change the world.
Moreover, if you could ask any architect of that time, “Will plastic replace banal concrete?”, you would probably hear a positive answer.
By the way, in those same years, automobile designers assured everyone that all cars would soon begin to be made of plastic.
Since then, engineers have built many such cars, including production ones, but the “mainstream” remained steel.
Suuronen's house being transported along the Thames, 1969 (photo phinnweb.com)
A similar fate awaited Suuronen's house, but then he rolled up his sleeves with enthusiasm.
So the “plate” could accommodate 8 people and had a diameter of 8 meters, just like the mentioned dome. The height of the house exceeded 4 meters. The house was manufactured at a factory and, due to its extraordinary lightness, it could be delivered to the installation site by helicopter.
The Finnish inventor even thought about the practice of “mobile living” - a week here, a week there. The streamlined house on support legs, in his opinion, fit perfectly into the virgin landscapes.
Suuronen's bright dreams were drowned in the oil crisis of 1973: plastic prices soared and Futuro production could no longer be profitable.
1968 “Futuro” is assembled at the Polykem plant (photo arcspace.com)
It seems that a total of 20 such houses were built, but if you dig deep into the Internet, you will find that there are still more than two dozen “Futuro” houses all over the world.
And each is attributed to a famous Finnish architect.
Either this is a desire to attract tourists, or proof that the feelings that people experienced 35 years ago have not disappeared.
At least in Finland, the USA and the Netherlands, several examples of unusual Finnish houses have survived.
One of them, registered in San Diego, was even put up for an online auction in 2001: in very good condition and with a starting price of $25 thousand.
Flying saucer layout (illustration by arcspace.com)
His other brother was not so lucky. In the spring of 2003, rumors spread across the state of New Jersey about supposedly found UFO debris.
Later, explanations were added - we are talking, apparently, about some kind of forgotten scenery for a science fiction film.
Only in the summer did a group of enthusiasts manage to establish that this was one of the Futuro houses, which changed owners more than once over the years and moved from place to place throughout the country.
It was in a difficult state - broken glass, dirt and empty bottles inside, peeling paint hanging in rags. Traditional American graffiti completed the picture of desolation.
The Finnish architect hoped that millions of families would follow in the footsteps of these people.
Fortunately for the Finnish architect's creation, a new owner was found for the cute house - Scott Gifford, who decided to turn it into a gift shop.
However, the history of this specimen is rather an exception, reminiscent of the unenviable fate of Suuronen’s plan.
However, before the romantic fantasy of the 1960s gave way to the cold reason of the 1970s, the UFO houses managed to “scatter” far beyond the borders of Suomi.
The round houses served as cafes, motel rooms, and exhibition exhibits.
This is what space age comfort seemed like (photo arcspace.com)
“Futuro” successfully conveyed the airy atmosphere of its time and therefore was not forgotten. In 1998, Mika Taanila directed documentary about “Futuro”, which was successfully shown at international film festivals.
In addition, an exhibition of photographs of extraordinary houses traveled around the world.
In Europe, Futuro bought several houses for the Air Force to house technical personnel at remote stations. The Soviet government purchased several of these houses for the 1980 Olympics.
But the oil crisis of 1973 caused a jump in plastic prices, at the same time fashion trends changed, and Futuro's market success began to wane. Polykem stopped producing them in 1978.
Then Futuro made a comeback in the early 1990s when European artists began using it in their installations.
Well, then here’s the result:
And here someone else lives:
Well, here’s a little more on the topic of the post:
A nostalgic selection of buildings from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Soviet architecture can be treated differently, but, nevertheless, it retains the unique spirit of the times, monumentality and grandeur Soviet Union. We present to you a selection of the most fantastic buildings of Soviet architecture.
Hotel "Tarelka", Dombay, Russia
Built in 1969 on the slope of Mount Mussa-Achitara, at an altitude of 2250 meters above sea level. The hotel can be transported: it can be disassembled into parts or transported entirely using a helicopter.
Boarding house "Druzhba", Yalta, Ukraine
A joint project of specialists from the USSR and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. The building was filmed in the film “Resident Evil: Retribution” (2012), as a former Soviet military base in Kamchatka.
Exhibition complex "Belexpo", Minsk, Belarus
Exhibition pavilion by architect Leonard Moskalevich, 1988.
Corps of Engineers of the Ministry of Highways
The building was built in 1975 by the architect Georgy Chakhava, who, ironically, was a minister at the time highways Georgia, i.e., in fact, the author of the project was at the same time its customer. Between the buildings there is a sloping park with a swimming pool and a cascade waterfall. Now former ministry owned by the Bank of Georgia.
USSR Embassy in Cuba, Havana
The complex was built in 1985 according to the design of V. Pyasetsky. Today the Russian Embassy is located here.
Central Research Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics, St. Petersburg, Russia
Built according to the design of S. Savin and B. Artyushin over 14 years (1973–1987), experiments were carried out here with the 16-meter manipulator of the Buran reusable spacecraft.
Summer theater in the park, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine
The building was built in 1978 according to the design of the architect O. Petrov in a park pond.
Amalir Sports and Concert Complex, Yerevan, Armenia
Opened in 1983 on Tsitsernakaberd hill. Project by a group of Armenian architects: A. Tarkhanyan, S. Khachikyan, G. Poghosyan and G. Musheghyan. A year and a half after opening, there was a major fire, and the complex was closed for reconstruction until the end of 1987.
Regional Drama Theater in Grodno, Belarus
The building was built in 1977–1984 according to the design of the Moscow Giprotheatr Institute (architect G. Mochulsky).
Regional Drama Theater named after F. M. Dostoevsky, Novgorod, Russia
The building was built in 1987 according to the design of V. Somov. Andrei Makarevich, who worked at the Giprotheatr Institute in those years, took part in the work on the construction.
Crematorium, Kyiv, Ukraine
The crematorium at the Baikovo cemetery was built in 1975 according to the design of the architect A.M. Miletsky.
Building of the Kazan State Circus, Kazan, Russia
Opened on December 9, 1967. The building was built according to the design of the architect G. M. Pichuev, engineers O. I. Berim and E. Yu. Brudny.
Cafe "Pearl", Baku, Azerbaijan
Built according to the idea of the city mayor A.D. Lemberansky in the 1960s. Derives from the architecture of the Manantiales restaurant, built in 1958 in a suburb of Mexico City by Spanish architect Felix Candela.
“House-ring” residential area Matveevskoye, Moscow, Russia
Architect - Evgeny Stamo, 1973. Six years later, the twin brother of this house was built. In the courtyards of these buildings there is a green area with a children's playground.
Historical and Ethnographic Museum on Mount Sulayman-Too, Osh, Kyrgyzstan
Built in 1978 on the slope of the sacred mountain Sulaiman-Too according to the design of the architect Kubanychbek Nazarov. A small concrete arch with panoramic glazing, divided by vertical ribs, closes the entrance to the cave. It was planned to house a restaurant in the building, but then it was given over to an archaeological exhibition. A futuristic portal into the depths of the mountain hides behind it a two-story cave complex, where the lower floor is expanded manually, and the upper one is left in its natural, “natural” form.
Hotel "Salut", Kyiv, Ukraine
Built in 1984 according to the design of the architect A. Miletsky. The building was designed to have 18 floors, but during the construction process it was “cut down” so that it would not compete in height with the bell tower of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. Experts believe that the author was inspired by the metabolic architecture popular in Japan in the 1960s and 70s.
Hotel at the Olympic Sailing Centre, Pirita port, Tallinn, Estonia
Built in 1980, according to the design of Estonian architects, this is a ship in the captain's cabin of which there is a restaurant. The project manager is Henno Sepmann. The current name is Pirita Top Spa Hotell.
Railway station, Dubulti station, Jurmala, Latvia
Built in 1977 for the centenary of the station, according to the design of the architect Igor Georgievich Yavein. The Baltic wave frozen in concrete is both a reference to the Soviet architectural avant-garde of the 1920s and a kind of predecessor of modern “space” architecture.
Pavilion on the territory of VDNH of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Built in the 1970s. Unfortunately, this building has not survived to this day. The source of inspiration for the architects of the pavilion was obviously Cathedral in Brazil, the architect Oscar Niemeyer, a communist and great friend of the entire Soviet people.
Cinema "Russia", Yerevan, Armenia
The building was erected in 1975 in the central part of the Armenian capital under the leadership of a creative group of architects (G. Poghosyan, A. Tarkhanyan, S. Khachikyan).
Khmelnitsky Regional Literary and Memorial Museum of Nikolai Ostrovsky, Shepetivka, Ukraine
The ring, according to the authors of the project M. Gusev and V. Suslov, symbolized a wreath dedicated to the memory of the writer, and the pylons supporting it symbolized the hands of admirers of Ostrovsky’s talent. Scarlet smalt mosaic is a red banner around a memorial wreath. 1979
Building of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Construction began in 1974 and was completed 20 years later; at the time construction began, the project had no analogues in Moscow. The main decorative element is artistic compositions made of metal and glass. People called them “golden brains”; there are many legends about their real purpose, including ideas of “conspiracy theories”.
Ilya Chavchavadze Museum, Kvareli, Georgia
The museum of the Georgian poet and publicist Ilya Chavchavadze was designed by one of the most avant-garde Soviet architects, Viktor Jorvenadze, and commissioned in 1979.
Hotel Olympia, Tallinn, Estonia
In 1980, together with the Olympia Hotel, a variety show was opened on its ground floor. The building was designed by architects Toivo Kallas and Rein Kersten.
Construction of the building began in 1970 and was completed relatively recently. It is located on the site of the former Königsberg castle and for a long time it was the most famous unfinished construction project in the west of Russia. Project by Lev Misozhnikov and Galina Kucher local residents nicknamed the "buried robot".
Palace of Ceremonies, Tbilisi, Georgia
Erected in 1985 according to the design of Victor Jorvenadze. During the years of independence, the building was bought by a reputable local businessman, Badri Patarkatsishvili. Here, on the territory of the former wedding palace of the capital of Soviet Georgia, he was buried in 2008.