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Plywood hexayurt

Hexayurts are basically made of panels and connectors. Water-proofing, insect-proofing, fixing to the ground and portability need to be considered.

If the panels are from wood, then:

• the connectors need to be stronger than with lighter panels.
• fixing the hexayurt to the ground is probably needed only if there's risk of earthquakes or landslides.
• water-proofing and insect-proofing need to be considered, asking the local experts.
• portability will most likely need a group of synchronised carriers.

How to

H12

Parts list

Walls

Start with 6 panels, each 4'x8' (120 cm by 240 cm).

Cut off one 6-inch corner of each panel. This is called the "Sri Lankan corner" because it was invented in Sri Lanka.

Cut a wall and window(s) in one of the panels, making sure you don't cut through the edge of the panel, so that structural integrity is retained.

Start with 2-inch by 4-inch wood and cut 12 blocks. Each of the blocks has a 120º angle. There will be 2 blocks in each corner, one near the ground and the other near the roof.

Place the walls as an hexagon. To do this, you start by marking the hexagon with a string: place a peg at the center and draw a circle that's 7.5 feet radius, then use the radius from one point in the circle to mark the six corners of the hexagon. Each wall doesn't begin where the previous one ends, but 6 inches before (see figure).

Screw the blocks to join the walls together. XXX-number of xxx-lenght screws are needed for each block.

Roof

Start with 6 panels, each 4'x8' (120 cm by 240 cm).

Cut each of them in half through the diagonal.

Trim off the point of each of the 12 triangles. This is done cutting 2 small triangles off the point. The first ... and the second ... See the figure.

Use 2 triangles to create each of the 6 roof-pieces. This is done by overlapping 2 triangles by the width of a block (?). Use 3 (?) blocks and XXX-number screws.

Screw the 150º blocks to the side of each roof-piece. ...

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H13

• First plywood H13 built 29th June 2011 in Cloughjordan (Ireland)
  • http://twitpic.com/5iq2dt
  • http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/hexayurt-h13-at-the-cloughjordan-ecovillage-2536

Vinay is "still not 100% convinced they'll stand the wind at Burning Man easily" - he thinks "we're going to need some testing, and if you are building an H13 this year, please be sure and tape it up well and guy it down solidly, because that's a *lot* of exposed flat vertical surface on the front - but the quality and quantity of the interior space is unbeatable, and in plywood it was a dream to build and is completely solid".

That said, it looks like a great hexayurt, and there will be a video and more detailed pictures up soon!

Additional details

Links

These links need to be sorted LucasG 14:54, 14 April 2011 (PDT)

• Haiti http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-hexayurt-in-haiti-a-technical-description-1678 and http://files.howtolivewiki.com/hexayurt_in_haiti_v1.1.pdf
• Engineers Without Borders (Sheffield, UK) http://hexayurt.blip.tv/file/5012769/ and text at http://piratepad.net/jYVkXNdy3n
• Video (English)
• Construction details
• Video (Spanish subtitles)
• Another video, with some construction details: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fwlIxWomyw