Comments on: Hexayurt Construction

By: design bonanza › the darkness conjecture

design bonanza › the darkness conjecture — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:10:59 +0000

[...] itÂ has taken way longer than expected. These things can be built in a few days if you just follow instructions. C’est la vie.Â The hexayurt now has provisional solid and screenÂ doors. It still needs [...]

By: design bonanza « the darkness conjecture

design bonanza « the darkness conjecture — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:15:40 +0000

[...] As usual, it has taken way longer than expected. I had to clean and make uniform the salvaged materials. My toolset is a bit funny. But mostly I agonize over every detail. These things can be built in a few days if you just follow instructions. [...]

By: Vipen Mahajan

Vipen Mahajan — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:57:10 +0000

Amazing !.
I am an ex-mechanical engineer from india. Who drifted into Information Technology and Management. I am semi-retired now, and have settled down in new Delhi. About 3 years back I dabbled with hydroponics and aquaponics, to investigate sustainable agriculture. I had never done ANY gardening nr even had an fish tank, or gold fish !
Starting from seeds I was able to raise a few cherry tomato plants, about 25 kg of Indian carp fish (raised from spawn from a hatchery.

I neede a more knowledgeable person for the both the plants and the fish. Ran out of time, and money for the project. But I DO KNOW THAT IT CAN BE DONE.

I am now back to my domain, IT and management/change consulting, besides Alvin Toffler Third Wave, Future Shock and Revolutionary Wealth. I am working on an IT enabled KnowledgeMachine, where learning using eLearning, Social Networks, Moodle Learning Management system, and OLPC/Netbooks/Thin Clients and Amazon Cloud computing, to create “Learning Centers” for remote learning and continuous education.
By the way I have been into pen Source, ERP (Compiere), since 1998. I do Yoga too. Cheaper than taking beta-blockers for maintaining my hyper tension.It works !
My Son who continues to be in the USA, Boston,is dabbling with solar electric power generation, using concentrated heating, a Tesla turbine. He suggested that I revert back to my engineering roots.(I had made a steam engine and a Hot Air, Stirling engine in engineering. school).

Your adventure is very inspiring.I would like to put the learning on the Knowledgemachine, and make this knowledge available to the world, especially the poor, of the land of Mahatama Gandhi, India.

Are there any such initiatives afoot in India? Vinay?

Regards,

Vipen

I would like to mentor and create such communities, using the Open Source designs,

By: Hexahatch: the Open Source, Automatic Egg Incubator | Factor e Farm Weblog

Hexahatch: the Open Source, Automatic Egg Incubator | Factor e Farm Weblog — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:01:07 +0000

[...] far, we’ve built a Hexayurt, two Hexacubes, and now we’re adding Hexahatch to our hexaform product line. Hexahatch is a [...]

By: The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution » Can we build a world with open source?

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:42:29 +0000

[...] minor errata: the “third of the price of a tent” Hexayurt is the OSE-style plywood hexayurt, at around [...]

By: Percival

Percival — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:07:04 +0000

Cathy You would need quite a bit of height for a solar shower to have a lot of pressure, and lifting a garbage-can worth of weight up the 30 or so feet to get good pressure might be a bit of a strain, but, if you use the 5-gallon, pre-made, solar shower bags, you can hoist as many of those as your structure’s weight will bear, and, it gives you the benefit, if you number them, that, using them in order, you can lower the empties and refill them, without having to interrupt the shower procession.

You could also use some sort of pressurized bladder to simulate height.

Be well,
Percival

By: Factor E Farm Weblog » Blog Archive » October Progress Report: Major Success in Crowd Funding

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:40:55 +0000

[...] addition, we built one Hexayurt, received an insulated army tent on loan for a year, and published our initial CEB CSM business [...]

By: Phil Slade

Phil Slade — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:01:05 +0000

Using plywood panels will also give you the option of using the plywood kayak makers’ technique of stitching with wire, waterproofed with glassfibre strip and resin.

some info here http://oneoceankayaks.com/stitchglue/Stitch_Glue_Kits.htm

By: Marcin

Marcin — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:09:34 +0000

The roof is also OSB. A video is forthcoming with details, stay tuned.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:46:30 +0000

I am impressed…and excited. This is exactly what we were looking for! And I think for many of my friends. We might just have to have a hexayurt party! I was wondering what did you use for your roof? I might have missed it. Did you use the OSB board? I am wanting to figure out how to put a safe hole in the roof for a pipe for a wood stove. Does anyone have an idea?

I also have an idea for a solar shower hexayurt using the Polystyrofoam stuff. I figure since it is reflective silver..you could postion a black trash can above the yurt where all the sun would reflect onto it…to heat the water inside the trash can (or whatever you wanted to use) Because this building material is resistant to water problems it will work great for a shower room. Just a thought.

Thanks for sharing what you have done!

Blessings,
Cathy

By: The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution » The New Mandate: Tent Cities -> Hexayurt Cities

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:17:36 +0000

[...] Hexayurt can be made in plywood for $132 plus paint for a long-life, durable dwelling, or a rapid deployment unit using folding components [...]

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:19:28 +0000

awesome sasha, thanks for the help. good thing we can share information! i will finish the documentation for the hexaurt as time allows this weekend.

it looks like a pit will need to be dug, then the tank built and buried. it will be worth it and it will be MUCH cheaper than buying a steel or bronze tank, and possibly healthier than plastic storage as far as fungal habitat is concerned…

also, awesome treehugger forum post!

By: Percival

Percival — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:25:21 +0000

I wonder if, for doing an 8′ tall wall structure in this manner, you might first build the roof, and then lift that onto a 4′ wall structure, and attached. This all then gets lifted onto the next 4′ structure and secured. This might make the building easier. For your design, it might be roof on 2′ structure, then that on the 4′ structure, to achieve the 6′ tall walls. On the other hand, it might be very heavy.

Also, as a second assistance, you might want to build a (temporary) center-poll/tripod, with a platform at the top to hold the center of the roof pieces in place during construction.

By: Sasha

Sasha — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:50:43 +0000

Here is a book on FC tank building http://www.ferrocement.com/tankBook/indici.en.2.html

By: Sasha

Sasha — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:20:10 +0000

Hi Richard, honestly I don’t know the answer to your question. What I know is that ferrocement is an excellent choice for water tanks. There are experts on the net who could answer this. I’ll try to ask someone.