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 →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 →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 →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 →CheapID demo now online. You can go, you know, generate yourself a dodgy ID card, and get a real solid idea of what on earth all this Identity Services Architecture stuff is about. Note well, the code is flakey, your IDs will break every time I tweak the code, and this is a junky alpha. [...]
Read more →[On the National Response Plan] “Where’s the beef?” asked Baughman, who is Alabama’s emergency management chief. “I don’t have any problems with a framework . . . but it’s not a plan . . . and it’s not national. Who are we fooling here?” … “Coordination between state and local governments and the feds . [...]
Read more →The ever-helpful Lugon of the Flu Wiki, a site focussing on pandemic flu preparedness, pointed me at Redefining Readiness, which is a study about disaster response that actually, you know, asked members of the public what they would actually do in a disaster, and why. Needless to say, the results pose some interesting questions for [...]
Read more →Project STAR-TIDES is the new form of EITP, which is the .gov, .mil, big .org etc. autonomous building / distributed infrastructure / disaster response effort. They’re also up on Appropedia. I’m currently kind of the jack of all trades / focus manager for this project – keep the thing pointed at the problems, organize the [...]
Read more →Raised Brow is blogging about Hexayurts. I responded with some expansions. Hi, Vinay here, designer of the Hexayurt. For disaster relief in America, we have a plan. It’s a good plan, according to both the American Red Cross and FEMA. Here’s how it works. You got four things you need to put together when it [...]
Read more →from DonEastWest’s photo stream Nice to see people thinking in public about this stuff that way we can all learn from each other.
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