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A couple people have asked recently about the base we made for the insulated hexayurt.  Turns out I took a bunch of pictures of the process, so here is a big gallery of base pictures. Level-able Base Every point of the base has a leveling pad.  It is made of an 8-10″ bolt or section [...]

Introducing the Hexa-Bustle or Hexa Pavillion While working on a spa design for the HexaPlex, i discovered some exciting things with the hexayurt roof design- it will quite happily extend outwards in any direction you like.  Same triangles, same angles.  Sweet!  Now what exactly does that solve? Reduced Flat Exposure to Wind: If you have [...]

 The HexaPlex – a Hexayurt for the Massive   A mega-multi-hexayurt for your examination- the HexaPlex   The other day, hanging out on the facebook hexayurt group, I discovered a design request for some arraigned H14s from months ago.  Sounded good, so I strung some sketchup hexayurts together and posted the picture.  Thinking about it [...]

Watching Open Source unfold is such an exciting thing.  I’m one of those guys with a million and ten ideas about how to change the world and no time to do 99.9994 of them (that’s right, 16 amazing things to pay attention to!).  But dropping a thought into an expanding culture… way more efficient! A [...]

a question was asked on the hexayurt google group (if you like hexayurts in a big nerdy way, and are not already on that list, why not browse over to http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt/ to add yourself) about hexayurt based gazebo structures. i have had this file in my pocket for a few months, done up extra special [...]

New Years Eve, 2010.  Our community holds an annual gathering for about 5 days to celebrate and reflect on the last year and imagine for the next year.  We call it Intention Alberta, after the much longer running Intention on the west coast of BC.  This year we put a project in motion to test [...]

the hexathedral is a trip down a possibility in the triangles and rectangles of the classic.  it makes me laugh.  it would make me even more giddy if someone were to build one of these somewhere/how.  i got started on this angle with a variation by kurt klingbell, which got me on the stellated roof [...]

the hexatent, or tentayurt.  this model is part of a hexayurt mashup adventure i had late at night one day.  it may or may not have any advantages over the traditional hexayurt.  what it does have is the same number of triangles and rectangles as a regular hexayurt in a different form. suitable to make [...]

this is a sketchup model that we worked from in building our first Structural Insulated Panel (SIP) hexayurt.  we needed something on the base to level the floor, as the floor was also SIP based (because of winter snow).  for this version we used full, square edged SIPs, with triangular foam to fill the gaps.  [...]

i’ve figured out some file serving on the blog here, so now i can offer you a model of the h13 hexayurt i’ve been working on. yay!  let me know if it works for you. download the sketchup 3d model here: {filelink=1} and download the sketchup version 7 here: {filelink=2} if you need the program [...]

For Intention Alberta,  Arca Tribe commissioned an insulated h13 hexayurt.  so we did it. The panels were made of a sandwich of two plywood 3/8ths inch panels and one 1 1/2″ (walls) or 2″ (roof) styrofoam panel.  all 4×8′. I’ll update this post as i get time ;)  pictures below.

one of my artistic areas of exploration is semi-permanent shelters.  this comes from a situation i find myself in often: The Festival. Festival is a great place to gather people, re-affirm cultural values, breakdown habits, and practice life could be different. one of Life Could Be Different is what if there were a Big Problem. [...]