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Utopie Plastic has introduced a collection of futuristic appearing micro-homes.
The dwellings are the newest exhibition at the Marseille, France’s Friche de L’Escalette sculpture park.
The exhibition is viewable by appointment, through October 1, 2017. It has a unique place in factory-built housing history to share.
The exhibition includes three rare micro-homes, which date from the 1960s and 1970s.
Utopie Plastic is centered around Matti Suuronen’s “Futuro House,” which was introduced in 1968, with 60 saucer-shaped micro-homes that are now scattered across the globe, according to Opumo.
The ‘Futuro House’ was intended to be a holiday home that could be transported from place to place. More specifically it was designed as a skiing retreat, and originally cost $14,000, per Curbed.
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Also found in the Marseille exhibition is Maison Bulle a Six Corques – which translates to “Six-Shell Bubble House.” Created by French designer Jean-Benjamin Maneval, the Maison Bulle a Six Corques was introduced in 1956 as a prototype design that went into production over a decade later in 1968.
The flower-shaped homes originally came in green, white and brown, and are made of reinforced polyester insulated with polyurethane foam. Utopie Plastic has two of these units – one of which is being restored on-site for visitors to view.
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Jumping ahead to the 1970s, the exhibition also includes the 1972 Hexacube design by Georges Candillis and Anja Blamsfeld. The Hexacube is made of polyester and fiberglass, with a space-ship looking design that was inspired by the idea of colonizing other planets in a perceived sci-fi age to come.
The most unique feature about the Hexacubes is that multiple could be combined to make a larger residence. That concept is similar to modular homes the way we know them today.
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This part of factory-built housing history shows how innovations preceded trends such as modular or tiny-homes.
While these uniquely designed and futuristic looking micro-homes of aren’t in production, they are still a work of art. They’re being celebrated through the Utopie Plastic exhibition. ## (News, events.)
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