page_title: Futuro
section_title: Conservation
hierarchical_section_title: Futuro / History / Conservation
caption_attribution_description: English: Portal of Futuro House — at the University of Canberra. Closeup of the entry stairs and doorway of the Futuro House, previously at the the Canberra Planetarium and Observatory, moved to the University of Canberra in 2010 to be restored by conservation students.
context_page_description: A Futuro house, or Futuro Pod, is a round, prefabricated house designed by 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's airplane hatch entrance has made the houses sought after by collectors. The Futuro is composed of fiberglass-reinforced polyester plastic, polyester-polyurethane, and poly, measuring 4 metres high and 8 metres in diameter.
context_section_description: In 2010, Finnish conservator Anna-Maija Kuitunen made a damage assessment plan for the first Futuro ever made (serial number 001). This was done as her final thesis for the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences in Finland ("Futuro no. 001 – documentation and evaluation of preservation need"). The thesis is openly available via the Finnish Theses database and contains a large number of indoor detail photographs and drawings of the Futuro House.
  A UK artist, Craig Barnes, purchased and restored a Futuro house in 2013 – 14. He had discovered the wreck whilst on holiday in South Africa and had it shipped back to the UK before commencing restoration. The Futuro house — the only one in the UK — was on display to the public as part of an exhibition on the rooftop of Matt's Gallery, London (until December 2014); the house was featured on the fourth series of the Channel 4 programme George Clarke's Amazing Spaces (Ep. 2).
  One Futuro house was found to be biodegrading by cyanobacteria and archaea.
caption: Doorway of Futuro House at University of Canberra, undergoing conservation
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