Well, for me, I learned to build them by doing it. What's interesting is that the plywood hexayurt was first built by Marcin Jakubowski
http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=340 There were pictures, there was video. I looked at what they did with the flashing and though "that looks hard, I'm not sure how to do that" and then when the time came to build my first plywood hexayurt, I took a different approach using wooden blocks. So I'm actually learning little bits from people building hexayurts. There's a folder that I saw for sale on Craigslist which was an 8' unit which was fully concertinaed - went down into a 12' long stack, 4' wide, and you just pulled one side into a full folding hexayurt. Really a great piece of work. I'm not doing a very good job of collecting and documenting those bits of data on the site right now, it's something I should put up a wiki page for. So that's how I'm learning from materials online. Thanks for taking a look at this with us, David. Vinay On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:16 PM, David Jennings <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm new to this group, but had a chat to Vinay last week about how to help > more people learn to build hexayurts with as little need for > support/intervention from him as possible. This came about after I mentioned > to Vinay that I help people do online learning - especially the informal, > non-institutional, self-directed kind of learning... > > Obviously a lot of people on this list have learnt to build hexayurts with > little or no formal support. So what I'm interested in is: how did you do > this? what worked well for you, and what didn't? > > How useful were the various videos and other instructions on the web? > > Were you able to learn from others with more experience? If so, how useful > was that? > > If you knew then what you know now, how could you have learnt quicker or > better? > > Any pointers or suggestions very welcome, and gratefully received - many > thanks! And if you'd be willing to discuss at greater length off-list, > please let me know. > > Cheers, David > > -- > 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. > > -- Vinay Gupta Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest http://guptaoption.com/map - social project connection map http://hexayurt.com - free/open next generation human sheltering http://hexayurt.com/plan - the whole systems, big picture vision http://bit.ly/flucode - please follow the Flu Code if you are in a flu-effected area. It protects us all. Gizmo Project VOIP : (USA) 775-743-1851 Skype/Gizmo/Gtalk/AIM: hexayurt Twitter: @hexayurt http://twitter.com/hexayurt UK Cell : +44 (0) 795 425 3533 / USA VOIP (+1) 775-743-1851 "If it doesn't fit, force it." -- 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.
