I'm on it Vinay - I posted my pics on myspace.com/mylittlemu. I'm presenting it at LA Decom tomorrow, with handouts of the plans & biz cards w/ web information, in addition to my schpeel I'll be giving countless times from noon - midnight. More pics & video to follow from this event.
I'm all over it! Gwen - LA Hexayurt representative :P From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vinay Gupta Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 4:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [hexayurt] Re: hexayurts for tent cities - pass it on <grin> Hey, air force or not, I'll take all the field testing I can get :-) Just, if folks are asking, things that an AFB might be interested in helping out with are going on and that might help you get some dedicated testing resources. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1GjymP3MUc (crack Germans from a year or two ago.) Sorry, I just laugh. I'm such a hippie and, like, half of my good hexayurt clips are folks in uniform. C'mon Burners, where's the pix and the video footage - I know you took pictures of your beautiful yurts going up! Vinay -- Vinay Gupta Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest http://hexayurt.com - free/open next generation human sheltering http://hexayurt.com/plan - the whole systems, big picture vision Gizmo Project VOIP : (USA) 775-743-1851 Skype/Gizmo/Gtalk : hexayurt Icelandic Cell : (+354) 869-4605 "If it doesn't fit, force it." On Oct 3, 2008, at 11:05 PM, LaRahna wrote: I need to look into that. I am near Robins Air Force Base in central Georgia. Our area is heavy on engineers. I wonder if i could get some action for field testing. Our intentional comunity will be about 20 miles from the base and we have 30 acres waiting for hexyurts!!!!! I'll do some looking into that this weekend. Thanks for the info! I am adding you to my "best friend for today" list! LaRahna On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Vinay Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On the video - yeah, I just need to check with them that they're OK with public upload and what the license is. Sometimes when you're shooting video on a project people are casually discussing their sex lives or whatever and you don't want that raw footage uploaded, or they want it Creative Commons and I'd upload Public Domain by default. Just, you know, always polite to check. On the military end, welllll...now, yes, there's a story there. http://star-tides.net - Hexayurts and other appropriate technology stuff at the Pentagon in about 10 days. If your AFB buddies want to get course credit, there are some people involved in this from National Defense University who want to arrange field tests, and I believe an AF group in Colorado Springs also wants to do serious field tests later this year. http://picasaweb.google.com/tidesbart/StarTidesDemos pix here. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hexayurt+pentagon <http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hexayurt+pentagon&aq=f> &aq=f video there. So, yeah, for some reason, the military loves Hexayurts, and if you've got military folks who'd like to talk to other military folks about hexayurty things there's mailing lists and so on, and some upcoming events. It's all fab-and-groovy open source stuff too, and very nice people. I know that might surprise some people, and at times it's surprised me, but it's a very mixed bag, the DoD. I only deal with the folks who're interested in putting time into this kind of relief work and that's a strong filter. Vinay -- Vinay Gupta Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest http://hexayurt.com - free/open next generation human sheltering http://hexayurt.com/plan - the whole systems, big picture vision Gizmo Project VOIP : (USA) 775-743-1851 Skype/Gizmo/Gtalk : hexayurt Icelandic Cell : (+354) 869-4605 "If it doesn't fit, force it." On Oct 3, 2008, at 10:55 PM, LaRahna wrote: Awesome!!! I live in a community near an AFB and we are loaded with engineers which was what I was just discussing with an associate...To get the plans to a volunteer team of engineers and have them onsite for the build to advise and assist.Please let me know if you get clearance to put the videos out. All help will be appreciated. I live in Georgia and we don't get much snow, but the design and load considerations are still important! I will keep you posted on the progress. I just got email confirmation from all but one of our board members to incorporate the hexyurt into the project! Yay! Thanks again for your quick response and any...(pronounced ANY) info you might think helpful send it my way! Live life fully today! LaRahna Hughes On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Vinay Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! Yes, please let me know whatever I can do to help with all of this. Please feel free to use the term Hexayurt to refer to hexayurts - I don't know what else you'd call them. On the OSB hexayurt, two things. 1> I've got a pile of video that Marcin's team uploaded, and as soon as I know whether it's public domain / ready for release I'll post it online, but they're off the internet for a few days so I can't ask them. 2> For things that might fall on people and squash them, get your own engineers or builders to really seriously think it through and make sure it's alright. Because a 240 lbs plywood roof with 1600 lbs of snow on it is a real hazard unless it stays up and I'm not a structural engineer. Your builders need to take responsibility for their structures because every climate is different and snow, particularly, is very very heavy. I'm willing to bet that when shown the design and eventually the video, a lot of people will figure out together what the structural limits of the hexayurt in plywood are, but until we've got a good consensus from builders and engineers, it's going to be a case-by-case basis for people, depending on climate and judgement and their own access to engineering expertise. The big issue is clearly snow. I'm fairly sure that a plywood hexayurt with good fastenings is going to be more or less invulnerable to wind excepting tornados and hurricanes, but snow is just *so* heavy when you get a big fall. As mentioned before, the pentayurt is better for snow because the roof angle will tend to make the snow fall off it more easily, but there's a whole art of making roofs work in huge snow areas - lots of different approaches, lots of regional variation. Now is the time for real engineering but, in the mean time, get your builders to take a look. Vinay -- Vinay Gupta Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest http://hexayurt.com - free/open next generation human sheltering http://hexayurt.com/plan - the whole systems, big picture vision Gizmo Project VOIP : (USA) 775-743-1851 Skype/Gizmo/Gtalk : hexayurt Icelandic Cell : (+354) 869-4605 "If it doesn't fit, force it." On Oct 3, 2008, at 10:16 PM, LaRahna wrote: Vinya, I've been following the emails for a short while and I am very interested in the hexayurt. I am working on 2 projects. 1 - we have been planning to have a "tent in" to raise awareness about our homelessness issue in my community and state. After reading about the OSB designed hexayurt....I thought it would be an excellent opportunity to bring together a team to "test" build an OSB yurt in conjunction with this tent-in event. Also I am working on an off the grid sustainable community here regionally and we are looking for phase 1 structures for the first few months until we are able to produce our own straw for straw bale structures...AGAIN, the OSB yurt looks like an option that definately fits into our core values (cost-effective, low tech, etc...) Are there any detailed plans for the OSB models? Or has anyone done any detailed notes that we could convert to plans...(like with measurements, and techniques used)? I read the overview page and it didn't give definate dimensions, etc... Let me know if the informaiton exists and if we would be able to use the "hexayurt" name (and reference your website pages) for this upcoming event (we are shooting for November)? I can be reached of course by email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or phone at 678.749.2707. Live life fully today! LaRahna Hughes On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Vinay Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/the-new-mandate-tent-cities-he xayurt-cities-982> The New Mandate: Tent Cities -> Hexayurt Cities The Hexayurt <http://hexayurt.com/> can be made in <http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=340> plywood for $132 plus paint for a long-life, durable dwelling, or a <http://files.howtolivewiki.com/folding_hexayurt/folding_hexayurt.html> rapid deployment unit using folding components can be made. There is no reason that we cannot provide acceptable housing to people unlucky enough to wind up in tent cities. These shelters can be cheaper than tents, for a much higher quality of life. Please pass this idea on, circulate it, spread it around, and let's get some solutions here. Everybody deserves a place to live. Let's do the best we can. http://hexayurt.com <http://hexayurt.com/> <http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=340> http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=340 <http://files.howtolivewiki.com/folding_hexayurt/folding_hexayurt.html> http://files.howtolivewiki.com/folding_hexayurt/folding_hexayurt.html -- Vinay Gupta Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest http://hexayurt.com - free/open next generation human sheltering http://hexayurt.com/plan - the whole systems, big picture vision Gizmo Project VOIP : (USA) 775-743-1851 Skype/Gizmo/Gtalk : hexayurt Icelandic Cell : (+354) 869-4605 "If it doesn't fit, force it." -- Live life fully today! LaRahna -- Live life fully today! LaRahna -- Live life fully today! LaRahna --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. 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