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There is twilight inside. There is some kind of extraterrestrial equipment on the walls. Something is happening and it cannot be denied. It looks like this is the first plate to be captured by a person in the mountains. Now she is over 40 years old. And this is what she has inside...

Dombay, hotel "Tarelka". The cost of living is 12,000 rubles per day. Capacity 6 people. Located on the slope of Mount Mussa-Achitara. Altitude 2250 meters above sea level.

This is the most amazing and unusual hotel in the Dombay mountains. The hotel is still in operation, but has only been slightly restored since then. It has the shape of a flying saucer landing on the slope of Mount Mussa-Achitara, at an altitude of 2250 meters above sea level. Vacationers will feel like aliens from unknown planets who are discovering a new, amazing world of the Caucasus Mountains:

In the late 1960s, an architect from Finland designed houses in the shape of flying saucers. Space Finnish houses. At that time, humanity was simply raving about space:

The plate was known throughout the USSR. It was even on the postal envelopes.

Literally everything had to correspond to the new “space age”. Cars, household appliances and much more began to take on the shape of rockets, and people mentally tried on the uniform of space travelers. It is clear that the dwellings could no longer resemble rectangular boxes. We needed houses in the spirit of the era. And they appeared.

In 1968, Finnish architect Matti Suuronen became famous for creating a house in the shape of a "flying saucer". Elliptical windows, interior lines flowing in intricate waves, all-round visibility and a kitchen reminiscent of a spaceship compartment:

By the way, the door to the dwelling opened like a ladder - it fell down. The author directly addressed people's feelings. The exterior and interior gave rise to associations not only with rockets, helicopters and airships, but also with alien ships. Against the backdrop of numerous reports of UFO sightings, many had no doubts about imminent contact with extraterrestrial civilizations. Suuronen did not try to explain his fantasies with logic. The convenience and rationality of such a house, compared to a traditional home, are debatable. Take furniture, for example. You can’t put an oak wardrobe in a round house.

This means that all the details of the situation had to be reinvented, which, however, was not a problem - there were more than enough “space” design solutions in those years. Even in Finland. By the way, at first the architect did not impose his concept as a new form of housing - he assumed that the structure would be used as a ski lodge or something like that. Then his plans changed, and the flightless saucer was called the ideal country house where a small family could spend a vacation or weekend. The project acquired more and more new details and acquired the appropriate name - “Futuro”.

The Finnish dreamer hardly thought about the choice of material - not long before he built a granary dome in Seinajoki with a diameter of eight meters from plastic. He chose the same polyester with fiberglass now.

Moreover, this material was inexpensive. Matti believed that his creation would be available to all inhabitants of the planet, which means it would change the world. Moreover, if you could ask any architect of that time, “Will plastic replace banal concrete?”, you would probably hear a positive answer. By the way, in those same years, automobile designers assured everyone that all cars would soon begin to be made of plastic. Since then, engineers have built many such cars, including production ones, but the “mainstream” remained steel:

You enter on board the "Tarelka" through a camouflaged folding hatch and find yourself in the wardroom: a round room with a table and chairs for dinner, poker, "bullet" and other friendly pastime after conquering the mountain slopes:

From the wardroom you can get to all other rooms of the "Tarelka". Two double rooms, one room for four people, shower room and toilet, kitchen, staff room:

Thanks to its unique design features, the hotel is well heated:

On cold winter evenings, the temperature does not drop below +22 C:

Photo "Plates" in the magazine Around the World

The “plate” could accommodate 8 people and had a diameter of 8 meters, just like the mentioned dome. The height of the house exceeded 4 meters. The house was manufactured at a factory and, due to its extraordinary lightness, it could be delivered to the installation site by helicopter:

The Finnish inventor even thought about the practice of “mobile living” - a week here, a week there. The streamlined house on support legs, in his opinion, fit perfectly into the virgin landscapes. Suuronen's bright dreams were drowned in the oil crisis of 1973: plastic prices soared, and the production of Futuro could no longer be profitable:

It seems that a total of 20 such houses were built, but if you search, you will find that there are more than two dozen “Futuro” houses all over the world. And each is attributed to a famous Finnish architect. Either this is a desire to attract tourists, or proof that the feelings that people experienced 35 years ago have not disappeared. One of them, registered in San Diego, was even put up for an online auction in 2001: in very good condition and with a starting price of 25 thousand dollars:

The Finnish architect hoped that millions of families would follow in the footsteps of these people. The romantic fantasy of the 1960s gave way to the cold reason of the 1970s, at which time UFO houses managed to “scatter” far beyond the borders of Suomi. In Finland itself, local residents greeted the design of the new house with protests. One of the houses, located on the shore of a Finnish lake, was regularly attacked by nature lovers who considered the UFO house to be a pimple on the face of nature.

The Soviet government purchased several of these houses for the 1980 Olympics. But the oil crisis of 1973 caused a jump in plastic prices, at the same time fashion trends changed, and Futuro's market success began to wane. Polykem stopped producing them in 1978.

Eyewitness accounts - they change our minds. There is twilight inside here. There is some kind of extraterrestrial equipment on the walls. Something is happening and it cannot be denied. It looks like this is the first plate to be captured by a person in the mountains. Now she is over 40 years old. And this is what she has inside!

Last weekend I went to the Dombay ski resort. I wanted clean and intoxicating mountain air. I had never been to Dombay before. After the first stage of the cable car, I saw an unusual structure in the shape of... a UFO! What is this?

It turns out that this is the “Tarelka” hotel. The cost of living is 12,000 rubles per day. Capacity 6 people. Located on the slope of Mount Mussa-Achitara. Altitude 2250 meters above sea level.

Story

The “plate” was presented to Dombay by Finnish President Urho Kekkonen. In the summer of 1969, he himself visited these places in the Caucasus. Together with the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Kosygin, they crossed the Caucasus Range in the area of the Alibek Gorge. The high-mountain hotel “Tarelka” welcomed its first guests in 1979. This is the most amazing and unusual hotel in the Dombay mountains. The hotel is still in operation, but has only been slightly restored since then. It has the shape of a flying saucer landing on the slope of Mount Mussa-Achitara, at an altitude of 2250 meters above sea level. Vacationers will feel like aliens from unknown planets who are discovering a new, amazing world of the Caucasus Mountains.

View from the "Tarelki" district to the Caucasus Mountains.

In the late 1960s, an architect from Finland designed houses in the shape of flying saucers. Space Finnish houses. At that time, humanity was simply delirious about space.

The plate was known throughout the USSR. It was even on the postal envelopes.

The hotel in Dombay is located at an altitude of 2260 meters.

You enter on board the "Tarelka" through a camouflaged hinged hatch and find yourself in the wardroom: a round room with a table and chairs for dinner, poker, "bullet" and other friendly pastime after conquering the mountain slopes.

From the wardroom you can get to all other rooms of the "Tarelka". Two double rooms, one room for four people, shower room and toilet, kitchen, staff room.

Thanks to its unique design features, the hotel is well heated.

On cold winter evenings, the temperature does not drop below +22 C.

Photo "Plates" in the magazine Around the World

The Finnish inventor even thought about the practice of “mobile living” - a week here, a week there. The streamlined house on support legs, in his opinion, fit perfectly into the virgin landscapes. Suuronen's bright dreams were drowned in the oil crisis of 1973: plastic prices soared and Futuro production could no longer be profitable.

The weird and wonderful Sanzhi Pod-City, made up of UFO houses (so named because of their flying saucer-like shape), is a now abandoned resort complex in Taiwan. Sanzhi Pod-City was originally positioned as a recreation center for American military personnel who were stationed in East Asian countries.
The original idea to create a town of UFO houses came to an employee of the Sanjhih Township plastics company, which produces plastics, Yu-Ko Jou. The first construction license was issued in 1978. The design was developed by Matti Suronen, an architect from Finland. Alas, construction stopped in 1980 when Yu-Jou went bankrupt.

After his company was declared bankrupt in 1980, work on the project was stopped. Attempts to revive the project failed. Several accidents and accidents occurred, which many superstitious people attributed to the fact that a certain Chinese shrine was damaged during construction work. Many also believe that the area was haunted. One way or another, as a result, the entire town was abandoned, construction work remained unfinished, and soon Sanzhi Pod-City became a ghost town.
The buildings were slated for demolition in late 2008, despite petitions for one of the buildings to be preserved and turned into a museum. Demolition work began on December 29, 2008.

1. Orange “flying saucer”. In a town that stood abandoned for 28 years and is now called nothing less than “the ruins of the future.”

2. Yellow “flying saucer”.

3. Swimming pool.

4. View from the window of one of the “flying saucer” houses. Due to its unusual architecture and dubious reputation as a ghost town, Sanzhi Pod-City's fame quickly spread and the abandoned town eventually became a tourist attraction. However, the destruction continued

5. Swimming pool in the abandoned flying saucer city Sanzhi Pod-City, Taipei, Taiwan.

6. Reflection in a broken window.

7. The project was abandoned in 1980 due to financial losses, lack of investment and a large number of deaths and accidents during construction.

8. The vandals didn’t have to wait long.

9. During construction, the unusual town even appeared on television - it was often used as a location for filming, including on MTV.

10. View from the roof of one of the houses.

11. Inside the houses there is now destruction and desolation.

12. Legend says that the unfortunate fate of the town may be a consequence of the fact that in order to expand the access road during construction, an ancient Chinese shrine - a sculptural image of a dragon - was disturbed.

13. Others believe the area was a former burial ground for Dutch soldiers, after the Netherlands made Taiwan a colony in 1624.

14. What is this – a playground for little aliens?

15. Even now, the abandoned city invariably attracts tourists and other curious people.

16. Fans of unusual photographs often come here.

17. The town stood abandoned for almost thirty years.

18. In some ways, these houses resemble the locations of some computer game.

19. There were rumors that many people saw ghosts near the abandoned city. In addition, there are a large number of unexplained traffic accidents reported on nearby roads.

20. One of the builders who participated in the creation of the unusual town said that there were many rumors, but most of them were false: “First of all, there are probably no ghosts here.”

21. There were also rumors that more than 20 thousand skeletons were discovered in this area when construction work began, and that several brutal murders took place in the new building.

22. “There are no ghosts or anything like that here,” assures one of the builders. According to him, such rumors are an inevitable evil of any new building, especially a large-scale one.

This mysterious and atmospheric ghost town is located in the north of the island of Taiwan. Houses in the shape of mysterious flying saucers seem to take us to another planet or to a post-apocalyptic future. What secrets does this abandoned futuristic hide? Who was it built for and what happened to it?

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The strange and wonderful town of San Zhi in Taiwan is an abandoned resort complex. The houses in this city were shaped like a flying saucer, so they were nicknamed UFO houses. The city was purchased as a resort for American military personnel serving in East Asia.

The original idea to build such houses belonged to the owner of the Sanjhih Township plastics company, Mr. Yu-Ko Chow. The first construction license was issued in 1978. The design of the houses was developed by the architect from Finland Matti Suuronen. But construction was stopped in 1980 when Yu-Chou declared bankruptcy. When the company went bankrupt, the construction project was stopped. All efforts to resume work came to nothing. During construction, several serious accidents occurred due to the allegedly disturbed spirit of the mythical Chinese dragon (as superstitious people claimed). Many believed that the place was haunted. As a result, the village was abandoned and soon became known as a ghost town.

1. Orange UFO houses. San Zhi was abandoned two years after construction began and stood there for 28 years when it was decided to demolish it.

2. Yellow houses.

This legendary ghost town was located in the San Zhi area of Taipei City, Taiwan.

4. Thanks to its unusual architecture and reputation as a ghost town, its fame quickly spread and the city began to attract tourists, but continued to deteriorate.

5. UFO-shaped houses began to be built in 1978. The unusual complex was conceived as a resort for American military personnel who were stationed in East Asia.

6. Reflection in a broken window.

7. The project was abandoned in 1980 due to financial losses, lack of investment and a large number of deaths during construction.

One day, during construction, a sculpture of a Chinese dragon located nearby was damaged. After this, the number of construction deaths sharply increased, as if the Chinese shrine began to take revenge.

8. Despite the fact that the city was never completed, over time it nevertheless appeared on the tourist map. People were drawn to its unusual architecture and otherworldly appearance.

9. Filming for the MTV channel took place several times in this picturesque place.

10. View from the roof of the buildings.

11. Destruction from within.

12. Legend has it that the resort was doomed because a Chinese dragon sculpture was damaged when the access road was widened during construction.

13. According to another version, ghosts were to blame: historians have established that this place was once an old mass grave of Dutch soldiers, which appeared after the Netherlands made Taiwan its colony in 1624.

14. A landing site for alien guests?

15. To curious people traveling along the northern shore between Tamsui and Keelung, the UFO Houses appear as a group of quaint, brightly colored, dilapidated buildings that were supposed to become a holiday village. But the Taipei government decided to demolish them.

16. Before being demolished, this place was often chosen by photographers due to its unusual atmosphere and beautiful coastline.

18. Without windows, the house looks like a peddler.

19. There were often rumors that many people had seen ghosts near the complex or that there were a large number of unexplained traffic accidents on the nearby roads.

20. One of the developers of the UFO house project said that there were a lot of rumors about the presence of ghosts at the construction site. In his opinion, all this was a lie.

21. There were also rumors that at the beginning of construction work on the site, more than 20,000 skeletons of people who were victims of murders were discovered.

22. Traditionally in the construction business, it is necessary to pay respect to the spirits before starting work in a new place. Ghost stories have nothing to do with this.

Futuro House looks more like an alien spaceship than a human home. In 1968 it was designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen. A house in the shape of a flying saucer is well suited for the role of a mountain chalet, a house in the backyard or in the forest on the edge. The radical design of Futuro House was successful and continues to live on today.

Matti Suuronen's flying saucer house was sold as a kit that could be easily assembled and installed on almost any terrain. Its plastic construction and futuristic aesthetic are recognizable decades later. And most importantly, Futuro House easy to disassemble, move to a new location, and reassemble.

The basis of the alien house from the Finnish architect is a metal ring on four legs, which can be installed on a site with a surface slope of up to 20 degrees. This eliminates the need to carry out preparatory work at the moving site.

While the supporting legs of the Futuro House are made of forged metal, the shell of the future house is made of a new building material for the period - reinforced fiberglass plastic. The motivation for this choice was the creator’s desire to reduce weight as much as possible - if necessary, the Futuro House can be transported by helicopter, without even disassembling it. Reinforced fiberglass plastic turned out to be a good choice with good thermal insulation. It can also be easily shaped into rounded elements of the home for an ultra-modern early space age look.

The main entrance to Futuro House is a hatch in the lower part of the plastic building, which can be reached via a metal ladder. Living space only 50 sq. m., however, the house in the form of a flying saucer from Matti Suuronen does not suffer much from this and has a good layout: it has a spacious living room, a combined dining room and kitchen, a toilet and a separate bedroom. In addition to the metal base, the assembly kit included eight identical plastic elements - four for the lower part and four for the upper part. They can be easily transported to site separately and secured together. Once the design was adapted for mass production, Matti Suuronen created special furniture, so the alien spaceship was sold fully furnished.

Matti Suuronen was proud that he was able to create a house with low production costs, adapted to any operating conditions. He hoped to solve the problem of housing shortages around the world with the help of Futuro House, but his flying saucers never became a truly mass product.

Total less than 100 houses released Futuro House before production stopped in 1973. The reason for the collapse of Suuronen's space idyll was oil crisis, which made plastic a prohibitively expensive building material. There are about sixty Futuro Houses left around the world in various states of preservation, used for various purposes.

Although they did not become the new standard in affordable housing, Matti Suuronen's spirit of ingenuity lives on today in new innovative building projects. Created over fifty years ago, house flying saucer Futuro House, with its elegant and simple geometry, still attracts attention today - it still looks modern and stylish.

Photo | Flying saucer house Futuro House by Matti Suuronen