House without Corners: Seven Houses in Retrofuturism Style

Smooth lines, streamline shapes, unusual layout creating the effect of optical illusions, glossy surfaces, abundance of colorful plastics, shiny chrome and another small detail – absolutely no corners. That’s how the futurologists of the past imagined the interiors of the future. Today, we call it the Retrofuturism style. Inspired by the visions of future, it mostly relies on technologies of the past.     

And would you enjoy living in a house without corners?  

The Futuro Project by Finish architect, Matti Suuronen is the cosmic flying saucer-shaped house designed to accommodate eight persons. Suuronen has constructed his houses not only in his home Europe, but also, for example, in Taiwan. 

Palais Bulles – the pink house in Theoule-sur-Mer, near Cannes, France, was designed by the Hungarian architect Antti Lovag and built between 1975 and 1989. It was initially constructed for a French industrialist, and was later bought by the fashion designer Pierre Cardin.

Bolwoningen or Globe Housing by architect Dries Kreijkamp, Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.

Konstantin Melnikov House, iconic example and symbol of the Avant-Garde architecture, doesn’t actually belong to the Retrofuturism style, since it was constructed long before the onset of this artistic movement, but it also features rounded shape and partial absence of corners inside the building.

Concrete House, project by architects Claude Hauserman-Costy and Joel Unal, Labeaume, France.

The model of Dymaxion House by Buckminster Fuller, whose ideas addressed the problem of the Earth natural resources optimization.

Sarreguemines Nursery Project by Michel Grasso and Paul Le Quernec, Sarreguemines, France.