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Scrollen Sie nach unten, um zu erfahren, warum Hexayurts so fabelhaft sind, welches für Sie am besten geeignet ist und wie Sie eines bauen können, ohne zu lange in der Sonne herumzustehen.

Was ist ein Hexayurt?

Eine Hexayurt ist eine Unterkunft für Flüchtlinge und andere Menschen mit geringem Wohnbudget. Es ist auch für „Freizeitflüchtlinge“ wie die Bewohner von Black Rock City geeignet, wenn es mit starrer Isolierung gebaut wird.

Vinay Gupta erfand die Grundform für klassische Hexayurts und eine Reihe von Variationen und stellte sie in die Public Domain. Dies ermöglicht es anderen, die ursprüngliche Idee weiterzuentwickeln. Diese Wiki-Seite und die zugehörigen Seiten dienen als Aufbewahrungsort für Hexayurt-Do-it-yourself-Baudaten und beziehen sich in erster Linie auf Bautechniken für die staubige Wüstenumgebung des Burning Man Arts Festivals. Wenn Sie Informationen zu Sperrholz-Hexayurt suchen, besuchen Sie hexayurt.com. Weitere Entwicklungen sind hier , ebenfalls im Public Domain.

Der Hexayurt kann aus etwa 300 US-Dollar an Materialien von Home Depot sowie etwa 100–150 US-Dollar aus per Post bestelltem Klebeband (oder einer neuen Methode mit Vinyl, die später besprochen wird) hergestellt werden. Je nach Bautechnik dauert die Vorbereitung zu Hause etwa 8 Stunden und 0,5–4 Stunden Montage an Ihrem Zielort.

Das Design des Hexayurt ist völlig kostenlos und gemeinfrei. Es ist großartig für Burning Man. Jeder kann es nutzen, Verbesserungen sind willkommen! Das bedeutet du.

Werden Sie auf Hexayurts für Flüchtlinge und Katastrophenhilfe aufmerksam: Hexayurt Pentagon-Präsentation im PDF-Format – alles über die Nutzung durch Flüchtlinge, einschließlich Solarnutzung, Holzöfen und Wasserfilter. Der Hexayurt-Massenevakuierungsplan – Hexayurt-Einsatz zur Evakuierung von Städten im amerikanischen Kontext.

Oben: Hexayurts beim Burning Man 2010: zwei 8'-Hexayurts und ein 6'-Hexayurt (hinten links). Beachten Sie, dass sie sehr sorgfältig mit Bandankern verankert sind und über eine robuste, abgerundete Tür verfügen.

Warum ist das eine gute Idee?

Millionen und Abermillionen Menschen haben keinen angemessenen Wohnraum. Es kann hilfreich sein , so zu gestalten, als wäre es Ihnen egal .

Oh, du meintest warum für die Playa? Das ist einfach. Hexayurts bereichern das Burning Man-Erlebnis wirklich . Sie können während der Morgenhitze ausschlafen. Sie haben einen warmen Ort zum Feiern um 4 Uhr morgens. Kurz gesagt, es rockt. Um 9 Uhr morgens ist ein Zelt ein unbewohnbarer Solarkocher, eine Hexayurt ist herrlich kühl und dunkel. Das Klebeband schützt es vor Staub. Und Sie haben es selbst geschafft, ohne ein Wohnmobil mit Klimaanlage zur Playa schleppen zu müssen. Sie haben mit Ihren eigenen Händen Ihren eigenen Unterschlupf gebaut. Es ist kreativ und sehr partizipativ. Durch den Bau einer Hexayurt schließen Sie sich einer Gemeinschaft von Ingenieuren und Schöpfern an, die dazu beitragen, den Planeten zu verändern.

Hexayurts sind nicht nur für die Playa da, sie sind für die Welt da.

Warum ist der Hexayurt kühl und staubfrei?

Der Hexayurt ist staubfrei, da er, sobald er sicher befestigt und an einer Plane befestigt ist, praktisch luftdicht ist.

Die Außenseite ist silbern und reflektiert daher das Sonnenlicht. Wenn Sie sich an einem Ort befinden, an dem das reflektierte Licht und die Hitze jemandem ein Problem bereiten und Sie sich nicht bewegen können, möchten Sie vielleicht etwas Farbe oder anderes Material zum Burning Man mitbringen, um die Oberfläche zu streichen. Darüber hinaus ist das Material selbst ein Isolator. Thermax hat einen R-Wert (Isolierungswert) von 6,5 pro Zoll, was in etwa dem von Glasfaser entspricht. Zwischen diesem und der reflektierenden Oberfläche gelangt nur sehr wenig Wärme in einen geschlossenen Hexayurt.

Der Boden hat in einer Tiefe von 1,80 m oder mehr immer eine Temperatur von etwa 17 °C. Wenn Sie eine Fläche ein oder zwei Tage lang beschatten, pendelt sich die Erdoberfläche auf diese Temperatur ein. So wird der Boden des Hexayurt kühl und bleibt kühl und neigt dazu, die Wärme aus der Innenluft zu saugen, sodass Sie sich kühl fühlen. Um tagsüber eine maximale Kühlung zu gewährleisten, halten Sie den Boden des Hexayurts frei von isolierenden Materialien wie Decken und Kissen. Für maximale Wärme bedecken Sie nachts den Boden des Hexayurt mit Decken.

Schließlich besteht der beste Trick an der Playa darin, eine kleine Sprühflasche (oder, noch besser, einen Pump-5-Gallonen-Gartensprüher!) zu nehmen, alle Türen und Fenster zu schließen und hoch in die Luft Ihrer Jurte zu sprühen. Durch die Verdunstung des Wassers kühlt sich die Luft im Hexayurt rasch ab. Wenn Sie ein oder zwei Minuten lang sprühen, kann es sein, dass Sie mitten am Tag frieren. Außerdem wird die Luft sehr feucht, was sehr angenehm ist. Dann beginnt sich die Luft wieder zu erwärmen, da wieder Wärme in den Raum gelangt. Anstatt also trocken und heiß zu sein, sind Sie jetzt feucht und heiß. Das ist schlimmer. Sie öffnen also eine Tür oder ein Fenster und lassen die warme, feuchte Luft heraus, lassen die warme, trockene Luft hinein, schließen dann das Fenster und sprühen erneut. Normalerweise müssen Sie dies alle fünfzehn Minuten oder eine halbe Stunde tun, und es dauert etwa eine halbe Tasse pro Zyklus.

Ich habe ganze Tage damit verbracht, in der Hexayurt zu sitzen und dies mit Freunden zu tun, die Leute hereinkommen zu lassen, sich hinzusetzen, etwas Wasser zu trinken, ihre Schuhe auszuziehen, sich eine Weile abzukühlen und dann ihrem Tag nachzugehen. Es ist eine wirklich unterhaltsame Art, einen Raum zu schaffen, um Menschen an der Playa kennenzulernen und ihnen etwas zu bieten, das sie brauchen und genießen.

Ein Hexayurt bei Burning Man ist mit einem solarbetriebenen Sumpfkühler wirklich gut (man sagt, er sei besser als ein Wohnmobil). Einzelheiten finden Sie weiter unten auf dieser Seite.

Klassische Bauweise: Dazu gehört die Vorbereitung der Paneele zu Hause (einige der Paneele diagonal halbieren und alle Rohkanten der Paneele mit Klebeband abdichten). Dann transportieren Sie die Komponenten zu Burning Man und bauen sie zusammen. Die meisten Classic-Anleitungen und -Videos beinhalten den Zusammenbau in 3D , indem die Teile in der Luft gehalten werden, um sie in die gewünschte Form zu bringen (hierfür sind 4 Personen erforderlich). Es gibt eine neue Möglichkeit, die Teile in 2D zusammenzubauen , für den größten Teil des Prozesses sind zwei Personen erforderlich.

Halbfaltbare Konstruktion: Halbfaltbare Hexayurten sind möglicherweise das ideale Design für Burning Man oder jede andere Umgebung, da der Großteil der Vorbereitung zu Hause erfolgt. Sie lassen sich viel einfacher wiederverwenden, da sie aus vier vorgefertigten Teilen bestehen, die sich ziehharmonikaartig aufklappen lassen. Anfangs benötigen Sie die gleiche Menge Klebeband wie beim klassischen Bau, aber wenn Sie Ihre Hexayurt wiederverwenden, benötigen Sie viel weniger Klebeband. Sie können eine halbfaltbare Hexayurt auf zwei Arten herstellen: mit ausgefallenen Werkzeugen und Staubbehandlung, um die Kanten der Platten auf Gehrung zu schneiden, oder mit Camp Danger-Scharnieren . Das Schneiden von Plattenkanten auf Gehrung ist unordentlich und zeitaufwändig, aber Sie erhalten dadurch eine etwas bessere Isolierung.

Vollständig faltbarer Hexayurt: Sie können den Hexayurt auch als vollständig faltbaren Hexayurt bauen . Nur wenige Menschen entscheiden sich für dieses Design. Der zusammenklappbare Hexayurt erfordert eine Tischkreissäge und präzise Winkelschnitte an den Kanten der Bretter und ist ein großes Objekt zum Transportieren (8' x 12', sechs Zoll dick). Wenn Sie das schwenken können, erhalten Sie einen Hexayurt, der hineingesteckt werden kann 20 Sekunden plus die Zeit, die zum Abstecken benötigt wird. Es macht so viel Spaß zu sehen, wie es sich öffnet und schließt, man wird vielleicht nie darin leben, aber man öffnet und schließt es immer wieder als Kunstprojekt. Nur um dich wissen zu lassen.

Der 8-Fuß-Hexayurt, auch bekannt als „H12“: Dies ist derzeit der beliebteste Hexayurt (siehe oben, unten links). Der 8-Fuß-Hexayurt war ideal für Burning Man, da er eine gute Transportgröße hat, 166 Quadratfuß im Inneren hat und kurz ist und nicht zu anfällig für starken Wind und sehr einfach zu bauen. Es hat eine anständige Fläche, in der man aufrecht stehen kann, aber die Höhe des Eingangs beträgt 4 Fuß. Nicht schlecht im Vergleich zu einem durchschnittlichen Zelt, aber es ist eine Einschränkung, die in den höheren Hexayurts unten verbessert wurde. Es ist wahrscheinlich das einfachste Design nach dem 6 Fuß langen Hexayurt. Für den Bau der 8‘ in klassischer Bauweise oder als Halbfalt-Hexayurt gibt es sehr ausführliche Anleitungen . Anhand der 8-Fuß-Hexayurt-Anleitung können Sie wahrscheinlich lernen, jedes andere nebenstehend gezeigte Hexayurt-Design herzustellen.

Die Pentayurt, auch bekannt als H10: Aufgrund ihres steilen Dachs war sie früher ein Entwurf, der für Schnee geeignet war. Diese erfreuten sich beim Burning Man 2011 aufgrund der größeren Stehplätze und der geringeren Stellfläche in beengten Camps, bei denen man Bedenken hatte, nicht genügend Platz zu haben, einiger Beliebtheit. Weitere Daten folgen, hier ist ein Bild (siehe unten rechts). Hexayurt-Projekt/Semifolding Pentayurt

Die 6-Fuß-Hexayurts : Die kleineren Hexayurts haben ihre Nischen, aber sie haben an Popularität verloren. Der 6' Hexayurt ist vergleichbar mit einem kleinen Zelt: gut für eine Person, sehr eng für zwei. Der 6' Stretch Hexayurt ist gemütlich für zwei Personen, bietet aber wenig Stauraum oder Platz für geselliges Beisammensein an Ihrem kühlen, staubfreien Ort. Diese sind einfach zu konstruieren. Sie können auch halb zusammenklappbar gemacht werden, und die Pläne sind fast fertig, sehen Sie sich dieses tolle Video für den Aufbau durch eine Person an. Die 6 Fuß lange Strecke fühlt sich wirklich groß an, wenn man die Wände um weitere 2 Fuß hochzieht, so dass man in der gesamten Jurte stehen kann und eine Tür in voller Höhe hat. Eine großartige Lösung für ein Camp, in dem es an der Playa nur wenig Platz gibt.

Die H2 Pup-Jurte, auch Siestayurt genannt : Neu seit 2012, die kleinste und einfachste Jurte. 2 Paneele bilden ein Welpenzelt, das groß genug ist, um eine Person darin zu schlafen. Ideal für effiziente Kühlung und für ein Nickerchen am Strand.

Die Square-a-Yurt, auch bekannt als H8 : Bei Burning Man 2011 waren einige Jurten mit vier Seiten zu sehen. Manchmal lag das daran, dass es nicht genügend Paneele gab, um jeden Haushalt in einem Camp zu einer separaten Hexayurt zu machen, also wurde diese Lösung improvisiert. Fotos und Geschichten folgen.

H13 Hexayurt : Eine brillante neue Variante des 8' Hexayurt ist das Hexayurt-Projekt/Hexayurt H13 . Dieses Jurtendesign verwendet 13 statt 12 Paneele (daher der Name: H13) und erhöht eine Seite der Hexayurte auf 8 Fuß, was eine größere Kopffreiheit und einen guten Platz für eine Tür ermöglicht. Es ist etwas schwieriger als die standardmäßige 8-Fuß-Hexayurt, da sie auf einer Achse asymmetrisch ist. Es wird erwartet, dass dieser Hexayurt bei starkem Wind mäßig stabil ist, aber seine zweite strukturelle Schwäche besteht darin, dass eine Tür über die gesamte Höhe in den „Bandring“ schneidet. Stellen Sie sicher, dass Sie ein Modell dieses Hexayurt anfertigen, bevor Sie es in Originalgröße konstruieren, und stellen Sie sicher, dass Sie über außergewöhnliche Fähigkeiten beim Festbinden einer Struktur verfügen. Dies kann auch eine halb zusammenklappbare Hexayurt mit Bandscharnieren sein. hier ist ein tolles Bild . (H13 ist ein neues Design ab Herbst 2010).

H15, auch bekannt als 10 Fuß Hexayurt : Möchten Sie eine größere Jurte? Die 12-Fuß-Jurte (siehe Abbildung) ist möglicherweise zu hoch für Playa-Winde. Der H13 ist durch das Hinzufügen eines weiteren Panels fast eine perfekte Lösung, aber es ist ein schwierigeres Design. Bei der einfacheren 8-Fuß-Hexayurt oder jeder anderen Form kann die Wandhöhe ohne Materialverschwendung um 2 Fuß erhöht werden. Da die Wände höher sind, werden für Stabilität bei Strandwinden dickere Paneele empfohlen. Sie können dies auch halb falten.

H15 (10 Fuß großes Hexayurt) versus H13? Es gibt einige Debatten über die Praktikabilität der oben genannten „höheren“ Hexayurts (H13 gegenüber H15), vor allem weil es sich um neue Designs handelt, die nicht mehrfach unter Playa-Bedingungen getestet wurden. Im Jahr 2011 kam es zwar zu keinem Absturz, die Winde waren jedoch sehr mild. Das 10'-Modell bietet möglicherweise mehr Stabilität als erwartet, da es symmetrisch ist, nicht über die hervorstehende, hohe Fläche des H13 verfügt und sich zuverlässiger festzurren lässt (insbesondere mit einem Seil- Halo , da die Lasten auf dem Seil-Halo oder dem Band liegen). Anker sind gleich. Strukturen wie H13, die nicht auf allen Achsen symmetrisch sind, sind unvorhersehbar. Im Allgemeinen ist die 10'-Hexayurt konzeptionell einfacher zu bauen. Es ist bekannt, dass Bauingenieure auf der Seite der 10'-Hexayurt gegenüber der H13 stehen. Der H13 lockt auch dazu, eine menschengroße Tür an der 8 Fuß hohen Wand zu bauen, allerdings schneidet eine Tür dieser Größe in den Bandspannring , der auch für Stabilität in der Hexayurt sorgt. Am Ende des Tages ist der übliche 8 Fuß Hexayurt besticht immer noch durch seine Symmetrie, den geringen Luftwiderstand (aufgrund der geringen Höhe) und die einfache Montage.

12 Foot Hexayurt aka 'H18': The 12' Hexayurt is pushing the envelope on 1" Tuff-R rather further than is advisable for Playa use, the increased height is just not as aerodynamic in playa-force winds. Increased height requires thicker panels, and you'd better stake it down well. [1]

The Octayurt: This design created at GLAMCOCKS camp in 2012 can be built with only six 4'x8' panels, and comfortably sleeps two or three people.

Domes: Just to complicate matters, there's new 'Nearodesic Domes', in the hexayurt family. They are based on the 8'x4' standard building material size. These are challenging to build, uncertain in major playa winds, but apparently were made successfully at Burningman 2011. If you're building these, you should overbuild them, miter them, and tie them down very securely. Know what you're doing. Having one of these blow across your neighbors' camps would be BAD. Click for photos of the quaddome and tridome.

Octatipi: here's [another thought: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYwHToAC3iY&feature=related]

(You can download Google SketchUp models of the basic Hexayurts.)

Building Basics

The basic 'classic' instructions for hexayurts are super simple. They vary depending on which shape and size of hexayurt you choose.

1. Buy 4 (or better, 5) rolls of six-inch-wide bidirectional filament tape, like T.R.U. FIL-835BD. More on tape here. Total cost: ~$150 shipped. (Or ~$180 for 5 rolls.)
2. Buy 12 sheets of a suitable 4' x 8' building material, like Thermax, from your local building supply store. More on panels here. Total cost: $200 - $400, depending on the thickness of the panels.
3. Using a craft knife, cut six of those sheets in half along the diagonal, three from right to left, three from left to right. Total labor: an hour.
4. Tape the edges of each board to protect you and the playa from the raw material. Total labor: two or three hours, or far less with three people and practice.
5. Tape the building together by forming the roof from the triangles, and the walls from the six boards you did not cut. Total labor: two or three people for about an hour, barring difficulties.

Hexayurt project/Camp danger Hexayurt hinge technique has full instructions for building the 8' hexayurt as a semi-folding yurt, plus shopping info and video. Also ideas for the H13 and the 10' yurt as semi-folding, hinged hexayurts.

Hexayurt project/Hexayurt playa checklist has detailed instructions for building an 8' hexayurt the "classic" way (without making the hexayurt semi-folding), a shopping list, and video clips of the process.

Look at the picture and go through the steps in your mind again. You get the boards and you get the tape. Then you cut some of the boards into triangles, and tape them together to make the roof, and then you tape the roof to the walls and you are done. You just built a Hexayurt. This is easy. You can do this. If we were working with index cards and sticky tape, you could make one right now on your desk. You know how this works now. You can do this. There are details you will get have to get right to make sure the building stands on the Playa but all playa projects have details, and we cover the details in detail on this page and in the videos.

How Long, How Many People?

How Long does Construction Take? Basically, it depends. Like the estimated amount of tape, assume that 'your mileage may vary.' Save a day for at-home construction, after you acquire most of your supplies. On-playa, timing depends on your chosen construction technique: semi-folding hexayurts need a day of work at home, but are easy to assemble on playa, probably an hour plus the time to stake it to the ground, or less. Classically constructed hexayurts just need a little prep at home, but the assembly process is difficult, requires 4-5 people, and has numerous pitfalls that can increase time spent. Ultimately it would help if you share your experience on our discussion page. Tell us the following:

• Which hexayurt you chose to make.
• Which construction technique: classic, semi-folding, fully folding.
• Your skills, use of power tools or hand tools, # of people to help.

How many people? At home, all the prep of the panels (no matter what technique you use) is best with pairs of people: 2, 4, or 6, because the panels are large and the tape sticks to everything. An 8' hexayurt can be prepared at home with just one person, but this is difficult and not recommended. On playa, you'll need two people for most of the work, but then it depends on your construction technique: "classic construction using the 3D strategy" requires 5+ people for about 45 minutes. "Classic construction using the 2D strategy" only uses two people for 45 minutes, and then about 5 people to lift the roof cone up. Semi-folding needs two people for about 30 minutes and 5+ people for the roof cone lift.

Transport: You'll need the ability to transport a stack of 4 foot by 8-foot panels from the hardware store to your home, and then to Burning Man.

Watch the videos

The step by step instructions for the classic construction and the semi-folding construction have videos linked in at various steps, which is probably the less confusing way to view.

We don't yet have a perfect start-to-finish video resource. We probably have the footage from which a pretty decent guide could be made, but I have no significant video skills. For example, here's the raw footage from Hexayurt showing us constructing a roof cone.

Raw footage

This is all in the public domain, so perhaps there will be a tutorial video cut from there. I may even take a crack at it myself. In the mean time, I'm going to refer you to the raw footage.

Start with the Roof Cone construction video above (recall that this is for the "classic construction" of a hexayurt, the semi folding yurts don't require this step). It's also better to download and watch full screen than in the little flash video window. It's really complete and very easy to understand. You'll have the principle down in the first five minutes. Unfortunately the camera person had to leave before we put the roof cone on the walls, but that's the easy part.

The rest of the videos are in the Additional Resources section at the end of this page.

Make a model

You can build a paper model really easily. Try 1' to 1" - cut 12 pieces of paper or card, 4" by 8". Cut six of them in half with scissors, three left to right, three right to left. Now tape together a roof cone that looks like the one in the pictures, and tape the walls under it. Surprisingly sturdy, isn't it?

If you want to try a bigger experiment, build Woody's Pup Hexayurt. This requires a trip to the hardware store. You buy a single sheet of Tuff-R type board, for about $15, and get a three foot tall model hexayurt. It's a really, really good way of understanding the process. You can also build a folding hexayurt at this scale.

Materials

The Panels

There are two great materials to make Hexayurt panels for Burning Man: either DOW insulation or Hexacomb:

The Dow Route

The first is a Dow insulation product. You can pick Thermax, Tuff-R, Super-Tuff-R or anything else they have at your supply store. They all work more-or-less the same, just some have a thicker, more protective foil surface. You want 1" or thicker. 1" is just fine. There are parallel products from other manufacturers. RMAX is the most common insulation board used at burning man-- the silver stuff that's tan in the middle.

You can see from the video that the panels made of this stuff are very light, fairly strong, and easy to work with. Note that the edges of each panel are taped. Tuff-R/RMAX is dusty, nasty, and at no point to be cut on the playa for it is sacred to the gods of moop, shedding copious amounts of nearly playa colored crap all over the place. This is bad. It is also hairy with fiberglass, dozens of threads per inch of board. You can cut it with a craft knife, or you can cut it with a saw that has an excellent dust collector, but in either case, be aware and take care of your lungs. Gloves, N95 dust masks and goggles are recommended.

Anyway, for these reasons, you will see the edges are fully taped. No moop gets out, and no fiberglass makes your fingers itch on the playa after handling the boards. Take a look at them in the hardware store. They're not bad to work with, it's not evil stuff, it's just not cotton or wood. It's a technical product.

Pro

Cheap ($15 a sheet approx.) Easy to find. Easy to cut, easy to work with, insulating and robust. A perfect material for the job you want to do in the Black Rock Desert.

Con

It's basically polystyrene with fiberglass added, meaning you'll want a dust mask, and you'll want to wash your hands/arms after cutting it to avoid irritation.

Make no mistake, this stuff is environmentally questionable unless you treat it responsibly and reuse it many, many times.

Making a more reusable Hexayurt: Hexayurts could be cheaper. And again: this material isn't super eco-friendly, unless you re-use the hexayurt many times (or you put the insulation into a home that's being built). According to the eplaya discussion boards, there's a decent period of re-use on even the standard R-Max type boards. The less accessible improvement is Thermax HD. This is the same stuff, but it has a thicker layer of foil akin to a soda can. This stuff will last a good long time. It's more expensive per sheet and usually requires a special order, therefore you have to coordinate with another hexayurt builder to buy about 30 sheets and split them or something. Seriously consider this if you can be so organized.

Now, an aside here. Plastic is, when respected, capable of being a very environmentally friendly material. Tupperware, for instance, does a job that no non-plastic material I'm aware of can: it stores food in a robust, reliable, reusable and sanitary way. Glass breaks in your bag, a thermos is expensive and usually full of something already and is bulky and costs 20 times as much. Compare to a yoghurt container, used once and abandoned. Tupperware is a good use of plastic, as far as I can tell, because the plastic is saving resources every time it is used.

So if you're going down the insulation board path, be sure that you take good care of your Hexayurt, and use it for many years, or pass it on to somebody who will. You can also reuse the insulation board in home construction projects because the design specifically tries to keep the building materials relatively whole. This is the correct way to bury your Hexayurt - in the walls of a building, keeping other people (or yourself) warm and dry in a permanent dwelling.

The Hexacomb Route

Hexacomb is what the first hexayurt ever built was made out of. Hexacomb for the structure, and R+Heatshield as the insulating layer. R+Heatshield is about $0.25 a square foot and is completely lightproof and reflects away 97% of the heat of the sun. Very useful to cover tents and cars with.

Hexacomb cardboard is a miracle product. It's an inch or more thick and looks a bit like corrugated cardboard, but it is stronger and lighter because instead of little ridges, the interior is filled with hexagonal honeycomb cells. It looks like a bee hive inside. It can be recycled and, for playa use, burned (if you must!) Better to reuse it, of course.

It can, however, be tricky to find distributors for Hexacomb. I really like this material, but it's just not as easy to find as the Polyisocyanurate. My expectation, however, is that if and when we go to mass production of Hexayurts, it will be a hexacomb-based board we use to make them. Great stuff.

If you would like to really go the Green route this year, I would recommend getting together with other Burners and putting in a bulk order for Hexacomb cardboard. Please contact me if you are interested in doing this, and I will put you in touch with the supplier, or you can contact them directly.

It's more hassle, but it's the right thing to do.

Other Materials

There are a lot of other materials that we have not tested. The 6' and 6' Stretch Hexayurt designs are much more forgiving, so if you want to try Coroplast or Triplewall corrugated cardboard or something like that, consider a test run on one of them first. One material you should not use is plywood, or any other heavy building material. The strength-to-weight ratios of plywood does not work well with the Hexayurt design. It's too heavy. They could hurt somebody.

Improving Sturdiness

The pointy ends of the roof pieces are pretty fragile particularly when moving and setting up. Foot-long pieces of sheet rock corners (the light-weight metal angles, about an inch on each side) taped along the side near the point make them very sturdy and only add a bit of weight.

Similarly, pieces could be added to the corners of the square pieces to keep from denting the corners when moving.

Install both with duct or strapping tape before you tape the edges, then tap lightly with a mallet to make it flush. Then proceed with the edge taping.

The Tape

The other key material involved in constructing Hexayurts is tape. Specifically, 6" wide bidirectional filament tape. In English, that's a six inch wide tape with re-enforcing fiberglass strands running in both directions, so that it will not break or tear under almost any imaginable circumstance, including howling playa dust storms. It is amazing and very expensive. Other tapes have been tried-- they aren't great in playa conditions, and those who went off the beaten path regretted it. Some innovations are underway and we'll see what results come back. BTW: don't use duct tape at Burning Man, it just becomes gray goo. There have been some people who say a 'flashing' product called "Vycor" or bituthene tape will be indestructable, but it is opaque black, is even more expensive than the bi-directional tape, and is thusfar untested for hexayurts (if you've done it speak up on the talk page). Additionally, we've got a totally new option gluing strips of vinyl on to create hinges the same way the tape is used, see vinyl below.

The bilfilament tape does not last more than 1-2 weeks of playa heat and sun: it gets crusty and peels off. If you make any permanent hinge or connection with the bifilament tape, it's recommended that you cover it with a layer of foil tape to protect it from UV damage. The foil acts as shade. It's also shiny silver and looks pretty cool, and it should keep your hinges in perfect condition for years to come.

3M 8959 at 6" wide. This tape has also been found as T.R.U. FIL-835, which is the same stuff. You will note that 3M does not give you the option to buy it in that width on their web site. See the playa checklist for even more about this specialty tape and where to find it.

3" tape is half the cost and has its uses on the hexayurt: many steps are perfect for 3" tape, and it's easier to work with than 6" tape. Using 3" tape means you need to be much more precise in the construction process, but is otherwise perfectly viable. You can also save tape and money this way: get a roll of 6" tape from the supplier above. Slit it in half the long way as it comes off the roll. Hold the roll and press a razor blade against it while a friend pulls one 3" wide strip off at a time.

Foil Tape: Time to use some foil tape! This stuff is fairly inexpensive and comes in a variety of widths, we recommend T.R.U. AF-20R it is also available more readily than bi filament tape. It's also very forgiving to work with and is designed to decrease fire risk. Foil tape is ideal for certain steps, but not all steps of construction:

1. Foil tape to tape-seal the edges of the panels.
2. Foil tape is NOT advised for making tape-hinges or for the connection of panels to each other, or the "tape ring." You need the bifilament tape for this because you rely upon the strength of the filaments and the stickiness of the tape.
3. Foil tape is highly recommended to protect the permanent tape-hinges used for semi-folding hexayurts in the camp-danger style or mitered styles.

Foil tape is easy to find in 2" widths. 3" widths are a little easier to work with. For a 'standard' hexayurt roof (H12, H15, etc), you'll need to cover 114 feet of tape-hinges, but the tape hinges are 4 to 6 inches wide. So, remember it's 114 feet, multiplied based on the width of the foil tape (3" tape means 114x2. 2" tape means 114x3.)

The tape needs another layer of protection from the elements if you expect to leave the Hexayurt up for months or years. Foil tape is one good option. There may also be paints which are appropriate.

You can also see the Tape Spreadsheet in the additional resources section of this page. It explains why you need all this tape, and also how much tape you need for manufacture, and on each subsequent building use.

Vinyl instead of Tape for Tape-Hinges

This is a brand new idea (as of 2013), has been tested in fire, in the sun, etc, as well as at Burning Man 2013 and 2014. Vinyl is a great way to make the permanent hinges of the Camp-Danger type, and possibly for sealing the exposed edges of the panels (although foil tape is probably way simpler to use). Here's the whole explanation on vinyl, brought to you by Jacob Rodriguez.

Building Options

Staking Down your Hexayurt

A hexayurt not properly tied down is a large, delicate kite, and it's your home blowing away. Just one panel blowing away and going for a bumpy ride could be disastrous. Generally, when tying anything down at Burning Man: overbuild it, meaning guy it down hard in several places. You'll never regret it. During building, stake the yurt to the ground before taping the it to the tarp, because a yurt blowing away is worse than a little extra dust getting in.There are two main techniques for tie-down, the rope halo or tape-anchors:

Tape Anchors vs Rope-Halo

• Tape Anchors: are prettier than a rope-halo because they are unnoticeable on the surface of the yurt. They are very strong, however they require a lot more of the expensive 6" tape (about 120", or 2/3rds of a 60 yard roll. That's $20 worth of tape). You also have to recreate your tape anchors each time you assemble the yurt because you are using the strength of the tape going up and over the roof peak; you cut them off and make new ones each time. They can fail occasionally in high winds. Tape anchor construction is discussed here: Hexayurt project/Hexayurt playa checklist#Assemble the Roof Cone
• Rope Halo: aka Rope Net, Rope Web, Hexayurt Macrame or "Hexayurt Bondage." Here's a nice picture: [2]. You make a circle out of rope-- big enough that it rests on the roof cone somewhere that you can reach it once your hexayurt is assembled. Fasten from the halo to your ground stakes with 6 other sections of rope. It's cheaper and faster, less pretty. Definitely have one available during on-playa assembly even if you're planning to use tape-anchors, in case of sudden winds. Now you can take the time to make everything equal lengths and pretty. You'll need some extra hands for this part.

Windows

Every hole you make is a place where heat comes in during the day. A single badly-placed window can turn a Hexayurt into a solar cooker, but no windows can also get hot! The smart plan is to keep the "plug" made by cutting out the window so it can be pushed back into the window to seal out the day, like a shutter. Cross ventilation is a must. Remember to tape all raw edges, and always seal any exposed raw panel material!You can cover windows with plastic, or bubble wrap (translucent like shower glass.) You can also leave them open. If you cut the windows as rectangles or very-slightly V-shaped rectangles, you can usually wedge the window piece back into the window at an angle and use it as a sun shade. This is a good solution.But if it's windy one day and you left a window open, so much for your dust-proofing. The cure for this is furnace filters, which are cheap, very effective, and can be taped over windows on the outside. You must put them on the outside, or when they fill with dust and you shake it off them, the dust falls inside your Hexayurt. Keep them on the exterior wall. Some people recommend a filter on each side of a window.Or just cut small portholes, about four or five inches round, and cover them up on the outside with the 6" tape. It's fairly translucent. I leave the inside sticky surface exposed to act as a dust magnet.

• Consider the location of your door (north facing is best), and the location of your windows in relationship to the prevailing winds on the playa; a cross-breeze is key in a hexayurt. (from Julie Danger): I have a window in every side of my yurt to catch a cross breeze on days that aren't too dusty. I use the "plugs" like shutters. I used to tape a cheap vent filter from homo depot to the window-- that way you get light, and heat, but no dust or wind. I cut my windows to a size and shape appropriate to the vent filters I first bought. Light hasn't been much of an issue lately but that's still a good option. Light can come in from the loose Camp-Danger hinges, depending on how you cover them with foil tape. I've also seen a heat proof window glass thingy put in a window on a yurt-- that was pretty sexy. For dust-free light I'm trying out a solar security light (see Harbor Freight.com), it turns on when you move into its space. I will cover it with colored filters so it's not obnoxious and cover its motion sensor when I want it dark indoors.

Doors

(More info coming to this section.) Everything said about windows goes double for doors. The door is the one thing that really isn't perfect about the 6' or 8' Hexayurts, because the door can't be too big and the entry height is only 4'. Sorry. Try the H13 or the Mark II instead, they have taller entryways. Also see below for the BFD mod.

• The size of the door matters-- the bigger the hole you cut, the more structurally unstable the wall panel becomes. The door's panel often needs replacing after Burning Man. A good size is two feet wide, cut one foot from the end of a wall. Some people like a door that goes from the ground to about six inches from the top of the wall. If the door doesn't quite fit now, you can crush the door flap a little by banging it on the ground (really.)
• The wall panel will be more sturdy if you don't cut the door all the way to the ground-- you maintain the "shear strength" of the panel this way. Cut a portal into the material, 2-3 inches up from the ground. This is a very strong door, because it is not cut all the way to the ground. However, you then have a delicate piece of the panel exposed for people to trip on, step on, and crush. Screw two narrow bits of wood to either side, sandwiching the material in between to reinforce this section--that prevents injury to the panel from being stepped on-- it doesn't help with trippers. Some people have used even large pieces of plywood to sandwich their door panel in.
• Another way to increase strength is to have rounded corners on your door instead, as this one does.
• Use a 2" panel just for the door panel - the 2" thickness is much more rigid and durable.
• If a tape hinge is used, be sure to tape it on the inside of the jamb as well - this imparts much greater stability to the hinge.
• Where you make your hinge matters too. Definitely have the door swing outward, always. Hinging the door with tape from the top like a cat flap makes the door stay closed and keeps it very rainproof. This is not the most convenient or aesthetically pleasing door, and it's hard to prop open for air. A hinge from the side is less rainproof, and it's hard to guarantee that it will stay closed on its own, it needs a latch mechanism.
• Don't let your door be blown off: secure it from the outside and the inside with tape so that it cannot be ripped off the face of your yurt.
• Try not to interfere with the tension ring if you want a bigger door. Doing that has structural implications. Remember to orient the door on the North side, otherwise your yurt will be hotter than it has to be and more subject to winds.
• For the sake of convenience, design your door to open outward. This way it will not occupy room inside your dwelling.
• Consider mitering the edges of your door when you cut it out (cut it out on a diagonal angle). This way it will close easily and seal well when closed. If it's cut out like a plug that needs to be forced closed, you will put extra strain on that panel. You can easily do this with an adjustable length/break off blade box cutter knife.
• Some people have even weather stripped their doors with foams or other traditional materials.
• A serious consideration is a door that will stay closed, perhaps with a latch, but that can also be opened from inside and outside the hexayurt-- so that your midnight, mid-dust storm bathroom run will not disturb your hexayurt-mate. And, if they decide that they want to come outside, you have not locked them in.
• Door panels are often damaged during use, such that some clever folks have reinforced their doors by sandwiching them between plywood, as shown below. If you do this you can probably even add a traditional door knob, perhaps a lockable one.
• A very simple closure device can be constructed using two pieces of rope - two feet in length each. Drill a hole the diameter of the rope through the door and the frame 2 inches from the edge, tie a knot near the middle of each rope, thread each rope through each hole, and tie another knot on the opposite side flush with the panel. The ropes won't move in the panel, but you have about 10 inches on each side to tie the door shut. Mind your yurt mate with this option.

The Camp Danger Door has a mitered edge, is not cut all the way to the ground, and hinges from the side.

Camp Danger Door 2.0

Camp Danger Door 2.1 (WhiteBuffalo)

The door, explained in part by this handy video. (DEAD LINK)

The Magnetic Door

• This door keeps itself closed using neodymium magnets. In the photo below you can see the two small, but powerful magnets which have been taped to the yurt wall.
• Note: The wall is upside down in the lefthand photo, which is why the kickboard is on top. The kickboard is important because it protects the foam along the door frame.
• To attract the door to the magnets, we attached a small metal plate we found at Home Depot.
• We think this is the best door solution because it is lightweight, packs completely flat, and is very easy to use.

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  magnets on yurt wall

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  two plate design (not ideal)

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  one plate design (ideal)

• We experimented with combinations of 1 and 2 metal plates in horizontal & vertical configurations, but ultimately the single-plate vertical design was the best. It seems to put the least amount of stress on the door and is the easiest to open and close.
• We took great care in attaching the metal panels to the door. First, we put a layer of bi-directional filament tape to protect against tearing. We also used very large washers.

• We sanded down then taped over exposed screws to prevent them from digging into other panels during folded transport. A small piece of cardboard from the magnet packaging keeps the screw from poking through the tape.

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  cut off ends of screws

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  cardboard & tape over screw ends

• The edge of the door is carefully beveled to strengthen it when closed and prevent it from opening into the yurt. This is the most challenging part of building the door!
• The edges of the door are covered in bi-directional filament tape in order to strengthen them.

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  cutting the beveled door

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  unattached door

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  final

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  tape on door edge

• We divided our yurt into 3 bedrooms, with 3 separate doors, without compromising the yurt's structural integrity. In the photo you can see 2 of the 3 doors.

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  photo showing 2/3 doors

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  3 door illustration

• Tip: Don't forget to attach something to the inside of the door so that you can pull it shut from the inside.

• Tip: The door can be easily propped open by tucking it under one of the rope Halo leads that secure the yurt to the ground.

more photos of our yurt can be found here: Yurt!

The Anwar Door

This is a hack. It's a hack because the pieces don't quite fit, but the tape deals with the one inch problems you will find. It works, and it does make for a much more open space inside, but it's much harder to build on the playa, and a little more vulnerable to wind. You will have to assemble this one all the way at least once or twice at home if you are going to get it right on the day.

The trick is this. If you cut down one of the isosceles triangles on the roof, and flip the two pieces vertically (using the seam where they are taped to the rest of the roof as a hinge) they mark out an equilateral triangle, 8' x 8' x 8' from the apex of the roof to two corners of the Hexayurt, with the whole triangle level with the apex. In short, you get a flat roof.

So you make an equilateral triangle for that hole. Now if you imagine this modified roof section on the 4' high wall, you see you have an 8' x 8' hole to fill. Two boards, preferably in the vertical orientation (for strength) fill it, and you now cut the door here.

In practice this is hard because there is no good way of taping the edge of the equilateral triangle to the now-vertical roof section. There's just no way to get at it that I know. And everything is off by the thickness of one board.

I mean, I'd love it if this worked. But it just doesn't. I think that in a high wind it's likely to be quite weak and it's a bear to put together. In short? Let's work on this one together and try and figure out a better way of doing it, or something equivalent. It's not ready for prime time, however convenient it appears.

If you're looking to make a hexayurt with a door that's big enough for an average adult, check out Other Shapes, Increased Height.

The BFD Mod

What it is:

• Stretch hexayurt mod
• Adds Big Framed Door (BFD) with real hinges and velcro attachment
• Uses wall precompression with horizontal ratchet tie-downs
• Semi-folding design with beveled panels and cordura hinges enhanced with zippers and velcro minimizes use of disposable bdf tape
• Solo setup in under 1 hour in any weather
• Pictures

More details are at BFD mod page.

The rounded shade structure is called a Love Monkey Hut or Monkey Hut. It uses PVC pipe as ribs for a shade cover over the Hexayurt. More information can be found at: Monkey Hut Link

Rooms

This one is easy. From the corner of the Hexayurt to the center is eight feet. The wall is four feet high. The point of the roof is eight feet high. So a whole 4' x 8' sheet, laid on its side, from the corner to the center of the Hexayurt divides the space perfectly up to 4' in height. The remaining space above the wall is 8' long by 4' high at the point, in short, it is half of a 4' x 8' board. So for three extra boards, one of which is cut in half, you get the ability to divide the hexayurt internally into rooms, either 1/6th, 1/3rd or 1/2 of the hexayurt in size. You could even divide the hexayurt into six small bedrooms with their doors on the outside if you liked. It would be weird, but it would be fifty bucks each.

Curtain room dividers

We divided a yurt into 3 rooms using curtains. It worked great! We used EMT conduit tubes as curtain rods and queen-sized sheets as curtains. If you hang the curtain rods from the center, and secure them in 3 corners of the yurt, you get 3 perfect rooms. Each can sleep a couple. The best part is that you can slide the curtains open if you want to open up the space again. Clothes pins can be used to keep them closed in the center.

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  layout and dimensions

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  curtain rods secured in the center

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  one room with curtains closed

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  outside view of room with curtains closed

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  how the curtain rod is secured to the corner

Accessories

Swamp Cooler

The combination of a Hexayurt plus a swamp cooler is unbeatable. You will need a good solar panel, or grid power, but the containment of the coolness and the moisture inside of the Hexayurt produces the most pleasant space I've ever experienced on the playa. It's totally unlike air conditioning, which is still very dry. It's more like... being in Florida rather than Nevada! You can make a rather functional swamp cooler with SOLAR powered materials. Here's instructions for building your own big one that is suitable for a camper, or Figjam's instructions for building a smaller one, which is perhaps adequate for a hexayurt given their inherent insulating properties. Here's Figjam's latest cooling monstrosity, which is considered the best size to properly cool something as large as the hexayurt. Scroll down to the images.

Quick product ideas for the swamp cooler: skip the little computer fans and go for the bigger better the Silverstone Air Penetrator, available from Harbor Freight, also a great place to get a 12 volt fountain pump.

Furniture

https://playatech.com/ has an incredible range of efficiently designed flat pack playa furniture. Each piece - a chair, shelves etc. - is cut from a sheets of 4' x 8' plywood (or other crush-proof materials - not hexayurt boards!) They slot together like puzzle pieces without bolts or screws. Just like the hexayurt, you just download the designs and make them yourself. Perfect for the playa, and the hexayurt plus furniture will pack down into a single 4' x 8' box in your truck or on your roof rack. We think it's an unbeatable combination.

Semi-Folding Option 1: Camp Danger Hexayurt/Hinge Technique

The Camp Danger hinge technique is a simple way to make tape-hinges that allow you to pre-fabricate any light-panel (rigid insulation) hexayurt as a semi-folding hexayurt. This page has step-by-step instructions of everything you need to do to create a semi-folding hexayurt with tape hinges. These instructions describe the technique for the popular 8' Hexayurt, but the hinge technique can be used for any other hexayurt shapes and sizes.

Semi-Folding Option 2: Partial Folding Hexayurt

Semi-folding hexayurts can be made either with just tape hinges, or by mitering the edges of the panels and then making tape hinges. Mitering the edges of the panels does slightly improve insulation, but it's messy and time consuming. No light will enter through the joints during the day. You will have slightly better insulation. If you want to miter the edges of the panels, read on:

The partial folding hexayurt ships in a 4'x8' stack, consisting of two half-roofs and two half-walls, to be sandwiched between light particle board and wrapped with your floor tarp for easy playabound transport. The only additional materials required are two 4x8 sheets of particle board (cheap, I used 1/2" I think), sawhorses or equivalent, a saw with a blade that can be angle-locked, some light spring clamps, scraps of cardboard, and maybe a small, accurate carpenter's square.

I didn't have access to nice shop equipment to cut the fitting angles along the panel edges, so I came up with a cleaner but more time-consuming method. Make guides for your razor/craft knifes by ripping edges of the particle boards with the saw that are angled to match the cuts from the edges of the panels: One at 30 deg down a long side for the wall tops, 30 again along the two short sides for the wall corners and roof bottoms, and then one at 15 deg down the other long side for the roof hypotenuse cuts.

Once guiding edges are ripped, secure a panel to the board with a few spring clamps, making sure to put small pieces of cardboard between the panel and the clamp to distribute the pressure and not impact the panel. When lined up properly, you'll be able to slowly work your way down a panel with your knife at the proper angle by holding the base of the blade along the guiding edge you ripped. You still have to pay attention, as the texture of the panel can mislead the blade increasingly as it loses its sharpness.

I only ripped guiding edges with one particle board, but if I were to do it again I would do it to both so I could put them on both sides of the panel and line up their angled edges with the square. That way the tip of the blade could run along the top guide edge just as the base does along the bottom, and probably not be as easily led astray. You'll need both boards to transport the taped and folded panels to the playa anyway so you might as well.

Make all of your cuts to get 12 equally sized roof and wall pieces each. Tape over all the cut edges and then tape together six of each wall and roof in the same manner as described elsewhere on this page. You want to end up with two 6-piece half-roofs that fold down and fit together as a 6 panel tall 4x8 stack, and two 6-piece half-walls that placed next to each other make another 6 panel tall 4x8 stack.

Setting up isn't as easy as unfolding from one huge piece like a complete folding hexayurt, but connecting the half-roofs (and adding tape anchors at each fold) and half-walls is considerably easier than taping together all 6 walls and roof panels. It's also pretty easy to break down (just cut the half roof/walls apart and refold) and store partial folding hexayurts. Mine is hiding out in a tiny storage space for the next few months in wait for its third Burn.

Here's a detailed construction guide PDF document that you can print out for this style of hexayurt.

The Folding Hexayurt

By "folding hexayurt," we mean fully folding, not "semi-folding." The Folding Hexayurt is a really serious piece of engineering. Looks exactly like a regular Hexayurt, but it folds flat. You basically just take it out of the truck, yank on the sides, and it pops out into a building. It's amazing. The drawbacks are: it ships in a 12' by 8' footprint, and you have to use very precise tools and wood-shop level dust handling systems to make one.

You can watch a clip us figuring out how to open the folding Hexayurt here. The raw footage of the entire folding hexayurt build process gets interesting about half way through.

We have only ever built one. You can see fairly full documentation of that process in the Video Resources at the bottom of this page.

I will be uploading some clips from that video and some notes on how to build one yourself soon.

The hard part about building a folding Hexayurt is the exactness that the building has to be cut with. You will need a table saw. If you cut the Dow materials with a table saw, it will put a lot of fiberglass dust into the air. So you need a table saw with a proper dust handling system, like you would find in a workshop. This is probably not something you should do in your garage.

Should you want to try it be very precise in cutting the dimensions of your unit. A quarter inch can make a significant difference to folding performance. Remember that the walls fold mid-way, so each wall board is now cut into two squares. Otherwise, just like a simple Hexayurt apart from the angles.

The angles are:

• 15 degrees on the hypotenuse of each roof panel.
• 30 degrees on the bottom edge of every roof panel.
• no angle cut on the 8' edge of each roof panel.
• 30 degrees on the top of every wall square.
• 30 degrees on the edges of the wall squares which meet at the corners of the hexayurt.
• no angle cut on the bottom or mid-wall side of each wall square panel.

Opening and closing can be tricky to get the hang of, as you will see in the video. Once you get the knack, however, it is fairly easy. One person pulls one corner of the folded package, a second person pulls the opposite corner (that is, diagonally on the other side of the folded package), and other people grab the sides and pull. It's pretty amazing, really.

You can also make the Hexayurt roof cone at home, leaving just one seam untaped, so that the entire roof cone concertinas down into a package the size of one roof triangle, 12 panels thick.

Global Impact

More than a billion people do not really have good housing. It's not that they do not want a good place to live but they often simply cannot find one they can afford. They do not have access to modern building materials, and local materials are often really unsuited for building. Europeans used to thatch their roofs and now we mostly use tiles and shingles because we prefer the results. We are probably not alone in this preference.

Everybody needs to be warm, dry and well-fed. If you go to Burning Man and the Hexayurt is a good shelter for you, consider helping us develop and test the Hexayurt until it is polished and ready to be made available globally. It's a free / open source project, and with your help perhaps it can become the Linux of housing.

Vinay Gupta

Hexayurt Jokes and Really Important Slogans

If your hexa yurts, you're probably playing with it too much.Recovery from hexayurt addiction requires only a 6-step program."Come on baby, make it yurt so good""We're yurtin for certain"Whether you're a real refugee or a recreational refugee, you'll be in A World of YurtBecause everybody yurts....sometimes.Hexayurts aren't just for Burning Man, they're for the world <--- that one's not a joke!I wanna yurt! (yurt).. I wanna yurt! (yurt)... I want to yurt! (yurt).. I wanna yurt! (yurt)Yurt Happens

The Masochist Yurt said to the Sadist Yurt... "Yurt me, Yurt me", The Sadist Yurt replied, "No".

Additional Resources

Personal Technical Support

• The Hexayurt Google Group (direct sign up).
  1. hexayurt on irc.freenode.net
• hexayurt@gmail.com
• File:8 foot hexayurt worksheet.xls shows calculations for an 8 foot hexayurt, using either classic or semi-folding construction
• Hexayurt thread on Burning Man's ePlaya

Hexayurt Applications and the Big Picture

If you want to know more about:

• Our long term global vision - read The Unplugged.
• Evacuating Cities, like after a big earthquake - read The Hexayurt Mass Evacuation Plan. This was presented to the American Red Cross and highly praised. It's for real.
• Our Refugee and Slum Revolution - read Hexayurt Presentation PDF or Scribd (broken, rotated 90° can anybody fix?). This was presented at the Pentagon to a group of senior logistics officers to high praise. It is also for real.
• Hexayurt-style Distributed Infrastructure (like toilets, stoves and drinking water) - read the Hexayurt Presentation PDF
• Why all the military stuff? - read Military Hexayurts?
• Who we are? - read this interview with Vinay Gupta (inventor of the Hexayurt system) on The Sietch.

Raw Video Footage

I have no skill with video, but we have acquired a decent amount of raw video footage over the last year or so. All of this footage is in the public domain.

Hexayurt Roof Cone Construction

Folding Hexayurt Construction - gets interesting about half way through.

Interviews from Combined Endeavor - gives some context about what we are doing, and what the Department of Defense thinks about Burning Man.

Other Video

8' Hexayurt Walk Thru from 2008

Old, not very good, 8' Hexayurt construction video.

6' Stretch Hexayurt video

Video from Strong Angel III

3D Models

Google SketchUp models of all the Hexayurts

Other Resources

Architecture For Humanity Our friends and allies.

Strong Angel III - the demonstration where the hexayurt was first introduced to the military.

History

is the old Hexayurt web site

Of course, like any good idea, it has some deep roots. The hexayurt is based on the work of Buckminster Fuller and Amory Lovins was designed around the conclusions of the Sustainable Settlements Charrette.