Seems to me, if I understand this right, you could just put an extra roof attached to the other six roofs and do it that way? So you'd have seven hexayurts and a lot of shared walls?
Is the problem that the "seventh roof" will fall inside the walls of the other six units? Or the issue is the anchoring (which, I think, you have a decent plan for.) If that's not a problem, that seems like the way to go. It'll be wicked cool, Vinay On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:52 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. > -- Vinay Gupta Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest http://hexayurt.com - free/open next generation human sheltering http://hexayurt.com/plan - the whole systems, big picture vision "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer" - Albert Camus Twitter/Skype/Gizmo/Gtalk/AIM: hexayurt UK Cell : +44 (0) 7500 895568 / USA VOIP (+1) 775-743-1851 -- 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.
