Hi Rachel, It sounds like you're building an H15 - which has 8' wide walls 6' high (comprised of a 4' x 8' R-Max sheet with a 2' x 8' half sheet added). The Vinay Gupta design makes full use of every panel is designed to pack flat into a 4' x 8' package as thick as 15 sheets (which vary from 1" or even less to 1.5" thick and more) high.
The genius of the design is the package. To get that, you make roof panels by cutting a sheet diagonally, corner to opposite corner. After cutting, you flip one around joining the two 8' long factory edges. Each sheet thus gives you one of the six panels needed for the hexayurt. The trick Julie shows you with her very clever little model is how to reduce messing about on the playa by partially pre-taping the roof into fan-folding halves. Basically you take three of the above triangles made from one (joined) sheet each, arrange like a half-eaten pie. you patch tape the underside of every other joint and fully tape the remaining ones. Repeat for the second half. Fan-fold into the footprint of one of the triangles cut from the origingal 4x8 sheet. Each half makes a stack. Flip them around to make them fit the 4 x 8 footprint of your easily transported package. On the playa, you lay both halves out flat so it looks like a pie with one smallish piece missing. You tape the joints you previously only patch taped on the back now on the outside, patch tape where the two halves meet, crawl under it pushing the center up to close the roof, patch that, crawl out then pull out a long run of tape and go over the entire halves joint as she pictures. She has this big discussion about how to deal with what happens when you don't miter (or bevel) cut the joints between full panels that meet at an angle above wall joints. Because of that (and because we make so many at once it's worth some time setting up special tooling) we do cut these pieces so they come together without a gap - so we don't have all her work-around with tape troughs, etc. It's stronger and saves tape too. I hope that helps! On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 10:18 PM, Rachel Schwartz-Gilbert < [email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to build the folding camp danger model for my yurt this year > (first yurt building project here!) but all of the directions seem to be > for much larger yurts than my 6' one. > > I can easily process the directions for the wall panels but am having a > little bit of trouble conceptualizing how the roof panels will work. As of > now, I have 6 triangles for the roof (3 per each side of the roof - as per > the 6' directions) but camp danger uses 12 smaller triangles (basically > these 6 cut in half and stretched out). Can I just leave my three triangles > per side instead of cutting them in half (and then tight sealing them)? > Cutting them seems to benefit transport for the Danger technique but either > way mine wont fold up like the bigger yurts so I don't see any real benefit > in cutting the triangles in half. Basically, I am trying to figure out if > my hinges will all be loose hinges pre-playa since the "tight hinges" would > be if I cut my current triangles in half. > > I am hoping that question makes sense.... > > Thank you in advance! > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
