Xanadu - Kissimmee Florida, 1985

I have some fascinating photos for you today, courtesy of Lou Perry (who took them) and Sue B. (Lou's daughter, who scanned them). Lou visited a Kissimmee tourist attraction known as a Xanadu House. There were other Xanadu Houses, and they were a series of experimental homes built to showcase examples of computers and automation in the home in the United States. (All of today's info is from a Wikipedia article).There it is, with plenty of organic curves; it has a pleasing look, to my eye anyway. The architectural project began in 1979, and during the early 1980s three houses were built in different parts of the United States: one each in Kissimmee, Florida; Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin; and Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The houses included novel construction and design techniques, and became popular tourist attractions during the 1980s.The Xanadu Houses were notable for their easy, fast, and cost-effective construction as self-supporting monolithic domes of polyurethane foam without using…

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