Hi Thomas, Thanks so much for your reply. I dearly wish I could visit you people. But given my work situation, that’s not possible. So thank goodness for this fine forum. By the way, what does AEZ stand for? It is clear from what you have written that the traditional yurt has given a good account of itself under very severe conditions. Were the traditional yurts you are referencing made from scratch or where they built from kits? I’m inferring that they were totally homebuilt. And can you give us some feel for the cost of building the traditional yurts? Was a lot of the material “scrounged”? I would love to hear more details. The ongoing discussions about building the hexayurts for this year’s Burning Man event suggests to me that procuring the necessary materials for that kind of yurt isn’t as easy as we might hope. I can only guess what might happen to supply lines in the event of major emergency. Would the situation be better or worse for those trying to build traditional yurts? That is one of the things I’m trying to determine. Thanks again, Lance
> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:26:30 -0700 > Subject: [hexayurt] Re: Technologies to try in the Hexayurt > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > > On Jul 17, 11:07 pm, Lance Culp <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’m curious to know if you people have taken traditional yurts to Burning > > Man. And if you have, how did the traditional yurt perform? > > We in the AEZ had a few yurts in the past. With walls made of diagonal > "fence" stakes, then putting cloth over them to create a windproof > wall. Same on the roof. Some of us even used reflective materials on > the outside. Those yurts were relatively cool as well. The more > airtight they were the better, it seemed to me. Plus, they look much > nicer usually on both out- and inside compared to hexayurts (you can > decorate a cloth wall much easier than the typical hexayurt walls). > > Come visit the AEZ this year to have a look. There's actually a tour > through the village every morning (10am, I think) from tuesday on. > > > _________________________________________________________________ NEW mobile Hotmail. Optimized for YOUR phone. Click here. http://windowslive.com/Mobile?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_CS_MB_new_hotmail_072009 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
