I built a hexayurt for last year's burn and it worked quite well. Plenty of room for two people to sleep and hold gear. Important to have a low and high vent for circulation. I hinged the cutouts on the inside so I could close them at night and put furnace filters on the outside to keep out dust.
I made beveled cuts on all the panels and feel that the bevels make the yurt much stronger. The Camp Danger method puts a lot more stress on the tape and doesn't transfer wind load efficiently to the ground. Better to take the time to cut the bevels and do it right. A collapsed yurt would be a major buzz kill. Cutting the side and roof panels would compromise the structural integrity even more. As for fire hazard, I don't think the tape is any more dangerous than a nylon tent. Besides, why would anyone want to build a fire inside their yurt? Bill On Sunday, June 17, 2012 8:01:42 PM UTC-7, Brian wrote: > > Hi folks- > > I'm new to the list, so apologies if this question has been answered > elsewhere (a quick search didn't turn up anything). > > I'm thinking of building my first Hexayurt for Burning Man this year. > Both my camp and my apartment are a little tight on space, so I'm aiming > for something that will > > 1. Comfortably accommodate me and my wife on the playa, while > 2. Having a relatively small assembled footprint and > 3. Folding up into a relatively small package for storage and transport. > > The stretch hexayurt, as it is usually built, accomplishes 1 and 2, but > not really 3. My proposed solution is to take the standard stretch > hexayurt design, built with Camp Danger hinges, but add an additional > "tight" hinge by cutting each of the long boards vertically in half (both > the roof and the walls). Then the yurt can be disassembled into four > accordion-folded pieces that fold up into a roughly 4'x4'x2' package. > > I've built a model of this and can send some photos if it's not clear what > I'm talking about, once I have time to disassemble it to show the folding. > > My question is this: will the vertical cuts on the long sides of the yurt > cause me structural problems on the playa? Has anyone done this before? > It seems that if I tape them back together in the same way that roof > triangles are taped together, this should be reasonably strong. My model > seems fairly sturdy, and since the stretch design leaves beind a few pieces > of scrap insulation, I figure I could use those to reinforce the cuts if > need be. But before I blow a bunch of money and time on a doomed design, I > wanted to see what the expert yurters out there think. > > I also have a quick question on safety. I see the warnings about Tuff-R > and filament tape and flammability, and yet I also see lots of people > continuing to use those materials for hexayurts. Is it reasonable to > assume that these materials, though not necessarily "safe" are at least as > safe as a nylon tent? Are there standard suggestions for mitigating fire > risk? Sorry again if this is answered elsewhere; there's a somewhat > overwhelming amount of information out there to sift through. > > Thanks! > > Brian > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/hexayurt/-/mLWhiAa5mp4J. 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.
