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Monthly Archives: October 2007

WIRED.com on Hexayurts

Monday, October 22, 2007

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.

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Pentayurt – Hexayurt for snow areas

Sunday, October 21, 2007

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% [...]

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Technorati Claim

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Technorati Profile

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Don’s Hexayurt Village Diagrams

Thursday, October 18, 2007

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.

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Blog Action Day – all you need to know

Monday, October 15, 2007

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 [...]

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Mad boat builder

Saturday, October 13, 2007

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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