Royce City, TX
How I love thy Youtube. Seeing as I wanted a little adventure without really going far, I came across a video that showed some strange places around Texas. It showed many cool places but luckily for me, there was the Futuro House around 30 mins. from where I live and I decided to check it out. Now, I don't know much about this or anything at all since I just came across it yesterday so the descriptions I'm about to make came from various places on the net.
Designed in the late 1960s by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen, the prefabricated Futuro Houses were meant
to be a cheap, durable, and stylish little dwelling that could be placed
in any environment. Made of fiberglass and plastic, the homes could be
broken down into 16 individual pieces and bolted together wherever the
owner wanted.
Fewer than 100 of these homes were built before the project was
decommissioned in the early 1970s. Today, it is estimated only about 50
of these remain. A number of them were shot down by
zoning laws, or demolished. The oil crisis in the 1970s made the use of
plastic prohibitive and production of the houses was stopped. Despite
the objections of some, architecture aficionados took to the buildings
and were able to preserve many of them, while those without protection
simply fell into ruin.
