Hexayurt
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The Hexayurt is a refugee shelter design by Vinay Gupta. It is based on a geodesic geometry adapted to manufacture from standard 4' x 8' sheet goods. It also resembles a panel yurt, hence the name. The basic model is 166 square feet in size and uses 12-18 sheets of polyisocyanurate insulation, or hexacomb cardboard. Buildings are held together with tape and anchored to the ground like tents. This building's design is in the Buckminster Fuller lineage of using contiguous triangles to maximize the load-bearing ability of simple structures.
The hexayurt project has been running since 2003. It was recently featured in Design Like You Give a Damn, (Metropolis, 2006) a book on shelters produced by Architecture for Humanity.
[edit] External links
- http://howtolivewiki.com/hexayurt/
- Article at MAKE
- Appropedia on the Hexayurt
- Design Like You Give a Damn
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