We first came across the futuro house around july 2011 right after we had started the architecture blog strange weird wonderful cool buildings and the futuro house located in royse city tx usa became the subject of one of our early posts image top left by runder.
Sanzhi ufo houses floor plan.
Apparently the location is too hot in.
There s some talks about failed partnerships and or real estate bubbles.
I couldn t find any definitive explanation about why exactly it was abandoned however.
The futuristic buildings were intended to be a vacation resort marketed towards the us military officers coming from their east asian postings.
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The sanzhi ufo houses also known as the sanzhi pod houses or sanzhi pod city were a set of abandoned pod shaped buildings that resembled futuro houses the prefabricated flying saucer shaped house designed by matti suuronen.
However after two years the construction sanzhi pod city stopped due to mysterious incidence and deaths.
In 1978 developers in taiwan started building what became known as the sanzhi ufo pod city the pods were intended as a vacation resort property and plans were made to market them to american military officers coming off east asian postings.
Sanzhi ufo houses 三芝淺水灣飛碟屋 from what i can gather online this place was built in the 70s as a resort but was later abandoned.
The ufo houses of sanjhih as they were nicknamed was an abandoned building project in the sanzhi district of the new taipei city in taiwan.
Sanzhi ufo houses also known as the sanzhi pod houses or sanzhi pod city were a set of abandoned and never completed pod shaped buildings in sanzhi distric.
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Construction begun in 1978 but the project was.
The sanzhi ufo houses chinese.
The project was inspired by matti suuronen s futuro housing prefabricated houses that looked like.
Sānzhī fēidiéwū also known as the ufo houses of sanjhih sanjhih pod houses or sanjhih pod city were a set of abandoned and never completed pod shaped buildings in sanzhi district new taipei taiwan the buildings resembled futuro houses some examples of which can be found elsewhere in taiwan.
It was during 1978s the construction of these ufo shaped houses started in the sanzhi district.