Greetings, On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 08:45 -0700, Chris Phoenix wrote: > I just got back from rural El Salvador. > > The buildings there are built solid, but airy. In school classrooms, > the top half of the walls may be just a grid of wire. The houses are > also built pretty open. > > In a hot muggy climate, it's important to let breezes circulate. But > you also need overhangs to keep the rain out. > > Is the hexayurt design adaptable for this? > > Chris
One would think. If you look at the 8' hexayurt design, you have two panels on each sidewall. Some people like them with a vertical seam, and others (for ease of assembly) like a horizontal seam. If, instead of an 8' wall, you have a 6' wall, and 2' of chicken wire, with reinforced corners, that might work. My actual suggestion, though, is, instead of going with the hexayurt design, which makes the (solid) walls the load-transfer structure, you might want to look at an actual ger (yurt), in which the walls are very open, and just what you wrap around them, makes them solid. I've seen standard ger structures as houses in the northeast of the US (Vermont, Maine, et al) under severe weather conditions, that are completely fine year round. I've also seen ger structures in some areas of Africa, with the burlap/crete mix as their walls/roof, with gaps deliberately left. Good luck, build well! Percival -- 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.
