New hexayurt models online.
by Vinay Gupta • October 28, 2007 • Hexayurt • 4 Comments
You can download the next SketchUp models of the Hexayurt (including the Stretch Hexayurt and Pentayurt) here.
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The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution
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Buckminster Fuller Institute Prize Application
by Vinay Gupta • October 27, 2007 • Hexayurt • 2 Comments
FIRST DRAFT PLEASE EMAIL ME YOUR COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENTS It’s within 1% of the maximum length, but has a little bit of word-level slack that could be trimmed to get in an additional sentence. Larger scale cuts and re-arrangements are perfectly plausible also. ============================ Challenge Response: Our goal is to produce a proven [...]
Read more →Andy Buxton and the SleepBreeze Personal Cooler
by Vinay Gupta • October 24, 2007 • Hexayurt • 1 Comment
Andy Buxton just wrote an article on shelter cooling and the rational for the SleepBreeze Personal Cooler on Appropedia. It’s a very useful piece of kit, and you should be able to buy one soon. I recommend subscribing to the BreezeBlog if you’re at all interested in product development, small business, manufacturing logistics, ergonomics, or [...]
Read more →TIDES – the skinny!
by Vinay Gupta • October 23, 2007 • Hexayurt • 0 Comments
If you’ve been wondering how the TIDES Demonstration at National Defense University went, the TIDES Summary – 2.5 mb PDF – 35 pages is a good place to start. This is a first draft of the TIDES boards – we’re still missing some of the material on solar, and everything to do with satellite communications [...]
Read more →WIRED.com on Hexayurts
by Vinay Gupta • October 22, 2007 • Hexayurt • 0 Comments
Slideshow: Instant Housing and Designing for Disaster (I’m pointing you right at the Hexayurt, which is half way through.) For the record, I don’t know where they got that cardboard line – maybe when I was discussing future plans? Anyway, nice-to-see.
Read more →Pentayurt – Hexayurt for snow areas
by Vinay Gupta • October 21, 2007 • Hexayurt • 4 Comments
Five sides, otherwise the geometry is unchanged. The steeper roof helps shed snow and I’m fairly sure that it’s steep enough for most snow areas. Anybody want to modify the Hexayurt models on SketchUp to make some models so we can get an exact height etc? The back of the envelope calculation suggests about 20% [...]
Read more →Technorati Claim
by Vinay Gupta • October 20, 2007 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
Technorati Profile
Read more →Don’s Hexayurt Village Diagrams
by Vinay Gupta • October 18, 2007 • Hexayurt • 0 Comments
http://www.flickr.com/photos/doneastwest/sets/1223240/ Very, very cool conceptual work. There’s a half-dozen pictures in the middle of the set of SketchUp renderings of collections of hexayurts. Very interesting stuff indeed.
Read more →Blog Action Day – all you need to know
by Vinay Gupta • October 15, 2007 • Everything Else, Hexayurt • 1 Comment
It’s a graph. Click on it for the full explanation on The Economist. Here’s what it says: all the downwards pointing bars are energy savings that pay for themselves. The depth of the bar shows how much you save, and the width of the bar shows how much of that saving is available. It’s like [...]
Read more →Mad boat builder
by Vinay Gupta • October 13, 2007 • Science • 4 Comments
And this is a cutting plan for a one sheet of plywood boat which is absurdly brilliant, and very reminiscent of both hexayurts and Playatech furniture.
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