A spoiled utopia
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Module houses from strange material, located amid artificial rocks by a beautiful ocean make an amazing impression! It is not really clear whether anyone has ever lived there, but doors, wallpapers, some of the windows, a swimming pool with slides have remained. Everything looks real (because it is indeed real!). However, looking at the site you cannot escape the impression that this is a film … or a dream. It is very interesting (and instructive) to observe modern experiments that were put into effect. Houses near the Baishawan beach surely are not the only such designs. Similar attempts were made by Matti Suuronen, who in 1968 designed his Futuro – “flying” houses destined at mass production.

Modernism has offered several ideas for a better future. Most of them, however, remained only on paper. Some have awaited realization though. Not all have been mistakes, like for example the Sonneveld's villa, (about which we wrote). These failures as well as these successes are an equally fascinating adventure in the history of design!