'Flying saucer' Futuro house replica for sale in central Victoria for $50,000 starting price

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Fans of Star Wars, Star Trek and Doctor Who might dream of living in space, but a woman in central Victoria is selling what may be the next best thing.

A portable, flying saucer-shaped house is up for auction in Lauriston, near Kyneton, with a starting price of $50,000.

The spheroid structure has featured at a Melbourne amusement park and served as the green room at a major music festival.

Owner Mara Szoeke said the building was a replica of the "Futuro" houses designed in 1968 by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen, as an easy-to-construct holiday home, ski lodge or party pad.

She said her house lacked some of the finishings found in the originals, such as a pull-down entry staircase.

"It doesn't have all the fancy bits inside; originally they were built with chairs, a fireplace in the middle that doubled as a barbecue, a bathroom and a kitchenette," she told 774 ABC Melbourne's Red Symons.

Ms Szoeke said the eight-metre-diameter fibreglass structure could be easily assembled and disassembled using a crane or "five burly blokes".

It is one of only five examples of the design to be found in Australia, and less than 70 Futuro houses are known to exist globally according to enthusiast website TheFuturoHouse.com.

'I instantly fell in love with it'

The building was originally part of the Caribbean Gardens amusement park at Scoresby in Melbourne's east, which was set up in the 1970s by fibreglass boat manufacturers, the Spooner family.

Ms Szoeke bought the replica Futuro house in 2004, after her cousin spotted it advertised in the local Trading Post.

"I saw it and I instantly fell in love with it," she said.

"When I bought it I didn't even know why I bought it."

It went to a friend who ran the Falls Music and Arts Festival, and was erected on the festival's grounds near the Great Ocean Road town of Lorne.

There the flying saucer-like structure served as the green room for many years and likely hosted the festival's headlining acts such as Kings of Leon, Moby and Franz Ferdinand.

Bushfires prompted UFO sale

The futuristic house is currently sitting in pieces on Ms Szoeke's Lauriston property, where she moved it last year with the intention of using it as an extra room.

The recent bushfires in nearby Lancefield made her reconsider her plans.

"I don't want it to burn into the ground, and I would like it to be moved somewhere safer," she said.

"It would be beautiful at the beach."

Topics: architecture, 20th-century, offbeat, kyneton-3444

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