I built a Plywood H13 Hexayurt at the Cloughjordan ecovillage today

[Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt Shelter Project)]

http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/hexayurt-h13-at-the-cloughjordan-ecovillage-2536 (video, some stills too)

Plywood (well, actually OSB) H13. Construction details and coreography pretty much as you'd expect. There will be a video and more detailed pictures up soon!

The H13 really is the Way, the Truth and the Light as far as general purpose hexayurts go. I'm still not 100% convinced they'll stand the wind at Burning Man easily - I think we're going to need some testing, and if you are building an H13 this year, please be sure and tape it up well and guy it down solidly, because that's a *lot* of exposed flat vertical surface on the front - but the quality and quantity of the interior space is unbeatable, and in plywood it was a dream to build and is completely solid.

We'll learn more from building the next few of these, so don't take the way I've done this one as any kind of finished process, but enjoy for now and more soon.

Scott, Dylan - your work rocks,

Vinay

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[Lucas González]

In time, this looks like the kind of thing that can be Taylorised. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management

I wonder if open source tools like the http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Torch_table will eventually, with adaptation and simplification, be able to deal with a boatload of plywood and 2x4s.  (A torch-table per boatload, that is.)  "Hey, just cut roughly half the panels through the diagonal, trim the points and signal where the blocks and holes will go, and pass that on to teams."

The Chinese said it starts with a small step.  They didn't say it _continues_ with small steps too.

Lucas

2011/7/1 Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt Shelter Project) <hexa...@gmail.com>

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[LaRahna]

I saw the build made out of OSB....I wonder if the LP Techshield product would be a good fit for the wood (osb) structure)?

http://www.youtube.com/LPBuildingProducts#p/u/10/qH9FD9rvbDw

http://www.lpcorp.com/techshield/
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LaRahna

[Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt Shelter Project)]

Wow, shiny vapor-barrier OSB. That's excellent!

V>

[LaRahna]

Not vapor barrier. That brand has a technology (holes of some sort) that allows moisture escape. Thinking the attached radiant barrier on the inside and maybe one of the nanopaints with a radiant barier filler on the outside is a simple and relatively inexpensive step 1 fix. At my local home depot the 7/16" LP brand techshield is $8.67 only a bit more than the regular osb at $6.27...about a $30 project cost increase....but you cant buy radiant barrier for that price so i'm thinking it would be a good deal for wood structures!

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LaRahna

[Cody Firestone]

FYI i tried to check out the lp site, they are down right now.  Bummer

Sounds great! Probably uses a gore-tex type vapor barrier where vapor of h2o pass, but liquid h2o, being more dense, cannot pass thru.  it uses the water tension of liquid h2o v individual molecules of vapor.

I would NOT flip it backwards. building products are generally designed to go on one way, other wise you could be TRAPPING  the heat / vapor, etc in your hut.

[LaRahna]

Not sure what link i put up but its http://www.lpcorp.com/techshield/ and I checked and its up.

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LaRahna