• Archive for October, 2007

    WIRED.com on Hexayurts

    by  • 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.

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    Pentayurt – Hexayurt for snow areas

    by  • 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% [...]

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