Hexayurt Build at University of Eindhoven
by Vinay Gupta • February 13, 2008 • Hexayurt • 4 Comments
Shows the whole process from start to finish. Could use more details on the tape anchors – we were pushed for time so we didn’t do them on every side – but this, combined with some of the detail shots from Combined Endeavor – is a comprehensive record of how to build a Hexayurt.
Here’s the animated gif preview:
Here’s the main video. This is an hour long, and has not been edited. It’s just what the camera saw. Everything you need to do is here, but details are obscured because we didn’t do close ups of details. The construction details are in the next clip.
Download the original video from Archive.org. (Direct link to the 100 meg Quicktime version for download.)
This video shows various construction details – how to do the roof cone, coordinating the final seam taping and so on. It starts with the folding hexayurt, then goes through a series of details.
Download the original hexayurt construction detail clips here.
We’ll take a crack at assembling all of this into a comprehensive How To Build A Hexayurt video at some point. Please note that all this footage is Public Domain, so if you have some video skills and some free time, we’d really like your help.
Thanks to Arno Pronk and Daan van Kinderen of Technical University of Eindhoven who helped organize and build the this Hexayurt, and to Daan’s friends who volunteered their afternoon to come and help.
(courtsey of flu wiki.)
oops, that was supposed to be a round of applause, with a dynamic gif link.
BTW – I noticed you popped into and out of the #hexayurt chat room recently a few times. I know you were advertising the room but didn’t apply any of the IRC server protections to the room, so anyone else could squat on it. Consider me a benevolent squatter. 🙂 I registered the room and I’m sitting in there pretty much 24×7 (whether I am actually there or not) so there shouldn’t be any hostile takeovers of the room from malevolent kiddies.
Great, thank you! I don’t run IRC all the time, and I’m often offline for days at a time – say hi to me next time you see me on!