stages – dylan toymaker

Winter Light Gala and 2012 season launch

I’m involved in a festival project in my home town of Edmonton, AB, that takes on the colder half of our year. It’s called Winter Light, cause we light up the long dark days of winter. At our latitude, we can have as little as 4 hours of daylight in December. Which is crazy. Especially if you are stuck in school or work for those 4 hours. ~~You can see all about Winter Light at our styley website here: www.winterlight.ca~~ (website no longer maintained)

Last weekend we launched our new Season and our newly founded Non-Profit Society. Up till now we have been a City of Edmonton created and funded project, that startup situation is now over and we are free to find our own fate as a non profit. Comes with perks and challenges ;)

I get to be the Lantern Co-Ordinator and Artistic Director of one of our events, which is about the most interesting job title I’ve ever had. And it means I get to build really fun things. For our launch, I worked on some more vector design + waterjet cut wood construction, and built a really fancy stage.

Best Part was everyone loved everything. Food, Music, Art, Fires. Other best part was we got the whole thing installed with time to spare. Must be practice or something.
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so, Pictures! thats what you and me are here for right? Here’s the pictures:

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Thanks to Robin George for taking the pictures. I think I had the time to take two? Must have been busy doing art or something. I’ll be adding descriptions to the gallery as time goes by.

hexagazebo!

a design mockup of a hexayurt based gazebo — a hexagazebo!

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 for a top-secret art installation, so i cleaned up the secret parts to show the basic framework of the hexa-gazebo.

i imagine this design to work best with plywood triangles, this may in fact be my only all-triangle hexafamilly design. maybe not. there are a lot of fun things to do with triangles.

as it has not been built, i do not know how strong the plan is. there are a few places where extra reinforcement may be needed. they are noted with simple lines- between the base points of the Leg Triangles, and from the center of the 3 open wall spaces. putting a 2×2 or something similar there would also allow convenient attachment of bug screens, drapes, or whatever else the local ecosystem needs for comfort.

here is the downloadable sketchup (version 8) file:
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and since i had to look it up to find out what i meant, here is the link to cc-by-sa 3.0. hope you found it as educational as i did :) actually, i hope everyone already knows all about it, cause it’s awesome.

enjoy!

(and send me pictures if you build one!)

hexathedral – hexayurt mashup

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 concept.

this version didn’t seem as practical as the standard hexayurt, or even necessarily feasible, but it did have an aesthetic appeal, so i turned it into a church. with a big soundsystem made from the same arrangement of triangles as the roof. the speaker covers may be the most practical part of this model.

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Hexayurt!

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. like a disaster. for example. or it’s time for the hippies to Go Back To The Land. (not in itself a problem, but problems would likely arise).

So..

one of my ongoing projects is Pavilion, an exploration into many kinds of shelter structures. i’ve done geodesic domes, icosahedrons (starpods), multi-dome jams, and now.. HEXAYURTS.

if you check out the fun at www.hexayurt.com you’ll see people into the same vibe. The basic idea is to build a shelter with 4’x8′ material (foam, cardboard, plywood, osb…etc). use 6 for the walls in a hexagon pattern, and then 6 more for the roof by making one full diagonal cut and flipping the triangles together to make a big triangle. attach with tape (for foam or cardboard material) or shape cutouts of the two angles (wood). et voila. a shelter that costs 1/5th of a standard humanitarian aid tent, and lasts 10x as long.

we started with an outdoor stage for our community’s annual fall equinox gathering Symmetree.

the model, courtesy of Scott (rocketscott at ohyah.ca), we used to build our stage with.
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166’2 floor space. just enough for the dj.

we flipped some triangles around to make a slightly more useful amount of space with the hexayurt concept. we call this mod h13.

with two panels for each of the 6′ walls (overlapped cause we didn’t want to deal with extra cuts) , we ended up using 16 4×8 panels for structure and 2 more for deco.

below is a gallery of hexayurtism.

including some (lots) of future dreams.

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