Hi Hal, The floor of your hexayurt will be 6 Equilateral triangles with and 8' edge. they are each made from a sheet of plywood measured one point to the opposite long side length of 8'. this gives 2 8'x4'x6.93' triangle and a small rectangular off-cut.
My crew built a sip-yurt and documented here: http://dylantoymaker.net/toybox/hexayurt/ floor: http://dylantoymaker.net/toybox/2012/12/27/portable-hexayurt-base/ the biggest challenge to making an easy to assemble sip yurt is the corners. either you bevel or you make corner parallelograms. make a really good 3d model first. we wanted a full foam seal all the way around, so no internal lumber in the SIP to create thermal bridging. There are so many things to balance, but if I had the space, I would use a thicker SIP with wood at the edges to make bevelling easier and the corner connections stronger. our floors in this build are also SIPs - but they need a frame support because SIPs are not typically structural on their sides. good luck on your design plan! dylan On Tuesday, 28 April 2015 13:43:53 UTC-6, Hal M wrote: > > On the playa, the playa is the floor, atop which goes a heavy duty tarp. > > Do NOT use these panels as flooring. Your first step onto one of them will > be the ruin of that panel. > > Alt would be plywood. > > > > On Apr 28, 2015, at 12:26 PM, RichShumaker <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > I know the walls and ceiling methods using 4' by 8' panels. > > What would the floor be or how would the floor be done using 4' by 8' > panels? > > > > I would love a SIP system for the entire structure from the floor to the > roof. > > Would need to know the best footers as well. I was thinking corner > footers with a center footer that is larger. > > > > Also for permanent install it would be cool to extend the roof on one > wall to create an airlock entrance / porch for shoes and jackets. > > You could mirror this idea on the other side of the hex for a small > bathroom as well. > > For both of these I would be using an 8 foot wall not 4 foot. Keeping > the slope the same I think it falls from 8 foot to 6 foot over 4 feet but > my math may be wrong and so the roof may not match the slope if done this > way, which is fine by me unless I build in heavy snow country. > > > > Thanks everyone for your help. > > > > Rich Shumaker > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "hexayurt" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
