Thursday, June 4, 2009

Emergency Shelter for 200 dollars - the hexayurt

The Hexayurt is a prize-winning shelter you can build yourself for about $200, using fire safety insulation boards and a time honored yurt design. Suitable raw materials include common building materials ( fire safe insulation boards,) hexacomb cardboard and plastic. You cut six 4' x 8' panels in half diagonally to make the roof, and use six more whole panels to form the walls. It takes about two hours. 


Many of these were created for Burning Man and around the world. Not a permanent solution for housing but sturdier than a tent.. 




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