I learned by building one with Vinay at Burning Man in 2006. I built my own for Burning Man 2008 and beyond. If you were at Resonate 5.0 in Chicago a week ago you may have seen it there.
Cheers! Spiral On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:06 AM, The Distinguished ... <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 12:38 +0100, Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt Shelter > Project) wrote: >> 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 > > Indeed, that's what inspired my efforts as well. > >> 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. > > Video? I'll have to track it down. *grin* > > The flashing I used was on the outside, and wasn't structural, as much > as weather-sealing. I used the tar-backed flashing that is about as > thick as the "outdoor rated" panels (the mythical Thermax-HD) that I > actually ironed in place (to make sure they stuck properly, teflon > ironing sheets are your friend, but a brown paper bag will do in a > pinch ...) to seal the edges. > >> 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. > > A most cool design! > >> 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. > > Very probably, the community does tend to produce things for us. > >> So that's how I'm learning from materials online. > > As are we all! > >> Thanks for taking a look at this with us, David. >> >> Vinay > > And I hope it continues to blossom and grow. > > Percy > >> >> 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. > > -- 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.
