> > I apologize for the error. I plan to change this immediately.
Hey no problem, y and g look a lot alike in some fonts and it's easy to get them confused. So, part of the ingenuity of the hexayurt is that it uses standard 4x8 foot sheet materials with minimal cutting and no waste. It's also got a few other benefits; perpendicular walls that allow the yurts to be placed adjacent and furniture to be pushed against walls, and a typically hexagonal footprint that shares shear stress through adjacent structures very well and optimizes the surface to volume ratio for a tileable structure. An icosahedron, while useful in some contexts, doesn't have a lot of the features that make a hexayurt stand out. There's merit in the idea still, I've seen plenty of platonic solids in temporary living situations made out of conduit and covered in thin skins such as tarp or mosquito netting, and the more useful ones served as a rigid frame to suspend and protect up to three hammocks. These were in mild climates. Also, I've used the steel C channel you're talking about. While true that they get significantly stiffer when used back-to-back as you described, they're nonstructural for a reason. Very flimsy these things, they're only strong enough to form an interior wall with because they form the inner portion of a sandwich panel when placed between two sheets of drywall, and they're only 'superior' to lumber studs in that they aren't as moisture sensitive, they don't generate sawdust when cut, and they take up only half the room of lumber during transport. I think it's a solid idea with a bit of refinement, such as miters on the panels, but it's not the sort of material that's used in any conceivable structural role in skyscrapers. On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 3:11 AM, <mach.do...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Friday, December 30, 2016 at 5:33:53 PM UTC-5, Dirt Dweller wrote: >> >> It seems like you misspelled hexayurt about a dozen times on your site. >> In fact, I can't find the unmolested spelling of Hexayurt anywhere on >> machdomes? Also, what exactly is a hexadurt? >> >> On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 7:37 AM, <mach....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> >> I apologize for the error. I plan to change this immediately. I have > limited time to devote to making unified domes. When I discoverd the > hexayurt, I wanted to share the idea. > If you visit the website starts to give all the information. If you wish > to learn more about unified polygons view the other pages. > > I am working on the templates needed to cut the 2X4 studs and the making > of triangle polygons and square polygons. > > If you are anxious, go to the prototype page on the site and make the 3v > 5/8 icosahedron. The unified hexayurt is even simpler. > > -- > 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 hexayurt+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to hexayurt@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://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 hexayurt+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to hexayurt@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
