Futurium is built of prefabricated sections installed on site. The house consists of two adjacent building masses: the main space - a hall-like unit and the adjacent - lower tubular space that contains service facilities. Steel frame: steel columns. Steel-frame facade elements with steel cassette and corrugated steel cladding.

House Futurium, built in 1988 for the Turku Housing Fair, is a kind of an experimental steel house that applies state-of-the-art steel working methods and aims at reaching an optimum price-quality ratio. An interesting feature of the house is the investment on space, i.e. producing ample living space at a moderate cost. The realisation of the house shows strong references to Jean Prouvé, in a positive, future-oriented sense.

Futurium is built of dimensionally accurate prefabricated sections installed on site. The house consists of two adjacent building masses. The main space is about 5 m high, a hall-like unit. The adjacent, lower tubular space contains service facilities, such as the kitchen and the dining space, the entrance, the bathroom, the domestic utility room, the sauna as well as store rooms and technical equipment rooms. The length of the tube is determined on the basis of current needs.

The hall-like part containing the actual accommodation spaces, can be used as a single, large space with the boundaries between different functions created by means of furniture. This will reduce the initial costs of living. At the next stage, the large space can be divided vertically into two parts, partly or completely, by an internal balcony level. The internal balcony can be located anywhere in the house. If realised only in one half of the space, the living room can be left an open, high space. Other living functions can be located under the balcony and on it.

At the third stage the spaces under and on the balcony can be divided into rooms by means of partition walls.

The passage between the service space tube and the actual living space divides the traffic lengthwise inside

the house. Entrance to the house takes place transversely. The stairs to the internal balcony are located on the same axis. A glass cube that contains a so-called green kitchen is built up on the tall, long side of the house, providing versatile possibilities for food preparation.

Gross area: 209 m²
Net apartment area: 189 m²
Plot area: 870 m²

Key information

Number of storeys	1
Living area (m2)	189 m2
New-build home

Location of steel solutions

Beams
Columns
External wall
Facade
Foundation
Internal wall
Light steel sections
Roof

Types of steel used in the building

Long carbon steel
Metallic coated flat carbon steel
Organic coated flat carbon steel

Steel house Futurium, Turku, Finland