Pentayurt - Hexayurt for snow areas
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% less floor space per panel used but significantly more area over the 6′ line for standable, walkable space.
Oct 21 2007 12:01 am |
Hexayurt |
Another challenge to consider, for smarter people than I, is a roof design change that would permit joining multiple hexayurts (yes, the conventional six-sided shelters) into a sort of beehive configuration.
The challenge, of course, is to cheaply/efficiently keep precipitation out of the shelter. Simply joining a bunch of standard yurts would end up dumping rain into the interior corners of the hive.
Hi, Vinay-
RE: SketchUp model for dimensions of pentayurt:
- in case your wondering, i don’t think i’m qualified to do the scaling and measuring you need here..
- i could start with a 4 by 8 panal but i wouldn’t know where to go from there. d.
That’s all there is, really - the panels are 4×8, and the roof triangles are 8′ high and 8′ wide.
It can be a bit of a challenge to get SketchUp to play nice - I usually wind up putting in a “roof pole” of the height that I worked out the hexayurt to be with a pencil and paper, and then lining things up to hit the point of that pole, then I take the pole out again.
It’s a hack but it works!
Viridari,
If you hook them together in a “hexane” formation, the interior section is, actually simply another hexayurt, and the same roof can be made to work there.
If you cheat up the interior walls about an inch (we just raised them, since the interior walls were not taped down) the rain that had gutter-puddled ran off the far edges.
Also, if you are connecting the hexayurts together, i recommend instead of doubling the walls, to simply use one thickness of walls, and tape the roof pieces together as well as to the walls, for extra rain-proofing.
As a second note on that, we used half-walls (leaving the center open) instead of cutting doorways, and that seemed to work structurally. (an 8′ wall gives you a 4′ door, a 4′ wall would only give you a 2′ door.) Leaving the interior walls out, entirely also was a poor choice.
Percy