HEXAYURT PORTABLE SHELTERS

http://hexayurt.com/

The hexayurt shelter can cost less than a relief tent, is designed to be manufactured anywhere in the world at any scale, from local materials, as Free hardware to house humans in need. The Hexayurt Project maintains the designs and makes them freely available to you.

To make the simplest hexayurt, make a wall by putting six sheets of plywood on their sides in a hexagon. Cut six more sheets in half diagonally, and screw them together into a shallow cone. Lift the roof on to the wall with a large group of people, then fasten it down with more screws. Seal and paint it for durability. Your basic hexayurt is complete.

The hexayurt may be ideal for a variety of disaster relief situations, including cold weather disasters and evacuating cities.

Here are the key points.

* Hexayurts can be built in plywood/OSB for less than $100 for a 166 square foot (15 sq meter) building. See the Plywood hexayurt how-to video and The Hexayurt in Haiti? technical document on an ultra-rugged design for hurricane risk areas.
* Hexayurts can be made in a variety of sizes using simple tools from industry standard 4'x8' (1.2x2.4m) sheets with zero waste and can be made successfully from many different materials, like plywood, OSB, coroplast, composites, hexacomb cardboard or other honeycombs and polyiso insulation boards. We also have new work from Edmund Harriss on quad-sized hexayurt-like domes which share the zero-waste property with the hexayurt itself.
* Hexayurts are public domain with no copyright or patent, meaning anybody can build as many as they like for free.

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I was looking for a semi permanent tent and this looks like it.

HexaYurt 16' dia & 8' at center. I did my own CAD drawing. 12 sheets of 4' x 8' whatever and you have one.

http://www.yurts.com/products/default.aspx
16' dia 200 sq ft 9'3" tall 950 lb $5,450 < < < < < here's a 16'

This company is in Oregon and the west coast might get hammered with radiation.