Thanks Vinay, The original design goals were:
- Temporary house 2 people/young family. - Simple, quick construction. - Remove the need for joins in the roof panels. - Easily moved by two people. - Ability to be "beehived" to create larger structures. On Monday, August 6, 2012 12:20:33 PM UTC+1, Vinay Gupta wrote: > > Absolutely lovely piece of work, Gavin. Absolutely lovely. I think > this would make an *excellent* first build hexayurt for people going > to Burning Man with a hexayurt for the first time. Not a ton of space, > but *so incredibly easy to build* because it doesn't have the complex > taping of the roof cone, which can be a challenge for first timers. > > Great work. > > Vinay > > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Gavin Harkness <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm new to this group, but I've been follow the hexayurt website for > several > > years, dreaming of any opportunity to build one. > > > > I've attached a small contribution to the great work people are doing > here. > > It's a Google sketchup design for a 2 people hexayurt, made from 4 > sheets of > > 8x4, and can be built with as little as 4 cuts. > > > > It stands 1.2m high, 2.4m long and just under 2.1m wide. Two end panels > and > > one side panel is cut from a single sheet and the roof, in it's simplest > > form, doesn't require any cutting at all. > > > > If you have any questions, please ask. > > > > -- > > 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/-/svOZ7l70piwJ. > > 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://bit.ly/gupta_arc - the Gupta State Failure Management Archive > http://bit.ly/gupta_ark - or see it directly on Archive.org > > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/hexayurt/-/IBi0nVHchl8J. 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.
