Everybody yurts, sometimes
I had the option of going to the gym or making something tonight, and creativity won. The latest Jack Rabbit Speaks newsletter had a link to a new wiki on Hexayurts for Burners. One of the suggestions was to make a model first so you can see how it all fits together. So I did.
I couldn’t find any foam-core board (not even at Mustafa Centre, fail!) so I made do with half-inch polystyrene. It wasn’t entirely suitable as tape doesn’t stick to it particularly well and the thickness was significant compared to the size of the panels, but it was enough to get the idea.
The wiki is excellent; I watched the videos a couple of times each and then went for it, with the aid of the illustrations. It’s surprisingly easy and all the gotchas are clearly described. I can see how everything would be a bit more unwieldy at scale (you’d definitely need two people to assemble one out of 4’x8’ insulation panels) but at the end it’s amazingly neat, despite my awkward cuts and haphazard taping job.
The cleverest thing is how it’s engineered to stack a neat 12-panels high for storage and transport, wrapped in a tarp. Now you see it:
Now you don’t:
Thanks to the awesomeness of the Hexayurt Project, I will have somewhere cool, dry and dust-free to stay on-Playa this year. I’m going to need it, as apparently we’ll be out early with the Black Rock Syndicate camp and I could be on-Playa for up to 12 days! Daunting, but awesome at the same time.
