I saw an ingenious rig a few years back where some one sunk a 2" dia metal pipe into the ground. It was about 15' tall. The top of the pipe had 4 metal eye-hooks. They had a parachute with a metal ring about the size of the hole in the parachute attached to the center of the chute. They ran rope up through the eye-hooks and back down to the ring. The outer edge of the chute was staked to the ground. This let them hoist the chute up the pole like a cone. It let air flow in from the bottom and up the top like a chimney, keeping things decently cool.
Spiral On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Alyssa Royse <[email protected]> wrote: > We are building an all hexayurt camp at Burning Man this year. (yay!) We are > collectively fixated on the idea of putting 6 of them together, in a > "circle" by connecting them each on one side and creating a courtyard in the > middle that is just for us. (One yurt will have doors on the outside and > the inside, opening into the courtyard, the others all open from inside the > courtyard.....) > We want to cover the courtyard, ideally in a dust-proof manner, but every > design we come up with starts to seem like a solar cooker. > We've tossed around: > 1) make an extra roof. Secure it by resting it on top of the pvc tubes on > the outside of the outer yurts, putting the pvc tie downs for the extra roof > on the inside of the extra roof. loop the inner and outer pvc pieces > together, and tie down the extra roof per usual. put "windows" in the > courtyard roof with air filters in them. > 2) using a tall pvc pole, basically spread a tarp / parachute type thing > over all of them and seal down with tape etc..... > 3) screw it, just do a shade cloth cover and call it good.... > anyone have any great ideas about how to create a cool, dust-free (ish) > covered courtyard in a HexaComb cluster? :) > ____________________ > Personal Pontifications @ Alyssa Royse.com > Tiny Tidbits on Twitter @alyssaroyse > > -- > 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.
