Venturo
Sign in to savethumb|Venturo House in Kivik Art Center, Sweden thumb|Abandoned Venturo House in Wanli, Taiwan. thumb|Venturo House at Tapiola, [[Espoo, Finland, 2024.]] 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". Venturo House was a part of Suuronen's Casa Finlandia series, known as the model CF-45. Other models were CF-100/200
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thumb|Venturo House in Kivik Art Center, Sweden thumb|Abandoned Venturo House in Wanli, Taiwan. thumb|Venturo House at Tapiola, [[Espoo, Finland, 2024.]] 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". Venturo House was a part of Suuronen's Casa Finlandia 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.
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.