you can also use a metal frame to support the cover over the area. i waill have optioins for you.
Very easy and very strong, we used them extremely effeectively in the rain / snow stom in 2010. and during the 85 mph gust during the build before the event opened On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt Shelter Project) < [email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- 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.
