Greetings,
I made a proposal to Peter Sing (http://singcore.com/) for modular
T-slot panels of the right shapes and sizes, coated in aluminum, but he
said there wasn't enough demand for the manufacture of them as one of
their standard products.
If many folks inquired, they might be more than willing to make them.
The base is really easy and off-the-shelf, it was the roof panels that
he balked at.
Just a thought.
Percival
On 11/25/2016 11:44 AM, Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt Shelter Project) wrote:
2017: zero moop and recyclable materials
The hexayurt has always been a zero budget project - I paid for R&D
out of my own pocket, and that's often resulted in cheand nasty
solutions. The polyiso board and bidirectional tape "standard
hexayurt" was cooked up one summer in a hell of a hurry, and worked
well enough that it became a standard, but I knew it was lousy from a
sustainability perspective, and the moop problems that have developed
as boards age or are badly transported are a growing problem at
Burning Man as we scale from a few dozen units to a few thousand. We
have to be incredibly clean, and incredibly efficient, for the
hexayurt to stay part of the solution rather than becoming part of the
problem.
To this end, I'd like to ask you a favour: retire any hexayurt which
is the least bit moopy, and replace it with something made of more
durable materials, things which will last a lifetime, ideally be
recycled at the end of life, and definitely, definitely will not moop
at all in any stage of their lifetime. This "let us not moop" thing
should be obvious, but I get the feeling that people have gotten so
used to the "standard hexayurt" that they are turning a blind eye to
little problems on those battered corners of a panel, or where tape
has failed. Let us put a stop to that.
So what to use instead of the standard hexayurt materials? I think
there's a good case to be made for sticking to tape, but moving to
tapes which do not degrade in the desert sun. They do exist: more
expensive, but more durable. Boards could also be fastened with metal
brackets, zippers, velcro, and half a dozen other things. Do some
experiments, there's 9 months until the next Burn, and this is
supposed to be a collaborative R&D project: in the face of trouble,
let's innovate.
Now let's talk materials. I hear great things about Thermax HD, but
nobody seems to be able to source it, and it's not recyclable even if
it is tough. Hunter XCI 286 seems to be about the same, but is
(slightly?) easier to obtain. Honeycomb Polypropylene looks
interesting, I have a few sheets kicking around at home, and there are
clearly possibilities. But how well does it insulate? Industrial
sandwich panels are available in an almost infinite variety of forms,
that's also clearly worth further investigation.
Please, make use of the mailing list
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/hexayurt>, and let's put
our heads together and fix this once and for all: a new hexayurt
template for the next 10 years on the Playa.
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