Here is the Hexayurt Meditation Hut process in 40 photos.

http://gallery.me.com/dkent#100092

What I would do differently:

1) Find a level building site...  (duh!, all the building books told
me to do that, and building on a slope was challenging)

2) Don't paint near the seams... the tape did not stick to the painted
surfaces! I almost ruined the whole project but I tried the tape on
the inside paint surface before painting the outside.

3) Don't use Prodex insulation... the wrinkled crinkled aluminum
facing decreased the tape sticking to surface (although I believe the
meditation hut is a well-insulated structure now, I would have
preferred to pay for a thicker, better foam board and skip the
Prodex).

4) Try harder to find Thermax HD or Hexacomb. It took forever to tape
all the edges of the Tuff-R (the only polyiso material available to me
in New Mexico). The hut has 13 layers (see details below)

Now the experiment continues to see if it will hold up for one year in
New Mexico storms and winds and snow.

Samarpan

P.S. The meditation hut has these layers:

1) exterior insulated/flame retardant paint
2) exterior Prodex foil exterior surface
3) Prodex foam core
4) exterior Prodex foil interior surface
5) air gap (I taped the edges only)
6) exterior Tuff-R foil
7) Tuff-R polyiso core 1"
8) interior Tuff-R foil
9) air gap (I taped the edges only)
10) interior Prodex foil exterior surface
11) Prodex foam core
12) interior Prodex foil interior surface
13) interior insulated/flame retardant paint


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