Right now, I don't recommend folding hexayurts for the playa. Here's why. On a regular hexayurt, the tape straps go from the stake to a rope to the tape anchor, up the strap to the peak of the roof, back down, to the opposite tape anchor, to the rope, to the opposite peg. Twelve times. It's a ton of tape, and a fair bit of work, but the result is a structure which is Going To Stay On The Ground Through More Or Less Anything.
Even with corners cut this structure stands. I'm quite proud (and of you too, hexayurt builders!) of the low failure rates at Burning Man. Folding hexayurts, however, tend to have a different structure. Tent peg to rope to tape anchor... then up to the peak. And that's it. Each tape anchor is stuck to the side of a roof piece, but it doesn't have the up-and-over quality of the unbroken strap. There may be a way of taping them so that they do actually behave better, but I never figured it out. The big difference is whether the building is held to the ground by the *tensile* strength of the tape - a single unbroken band up and over - or by the *adhesive* strength of the tape holding the tape to the slope of the roof. It's a substantial difference in structural terms, because the up-and-over strap won't fail by "skinning" the building and just tearing off down the side. Now, this said, people are building folders, and they aren't blowing over. And they're beautiful and elegant and fast and many other good things. And there might be approaches, like up-and-over taping on the *wall* pieces, and then a zipper that holds the roof on. Or something. But this is generally speaking the issue with folders. You've got the essence of the how in the email below. Also cutting angles on the edge of each board is more-or-less necessary for folders, although I've tried them without it. Hope this is helpful, Vinay On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 11:08 PM, jrusoff <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm planning to bring a hexayurt to the playa this year, and wondering > if I can make a partially folding hexayurt. The info I've seen on them > lead me to believe that I can make all the sides fold into one stack. > Is that correct? To do this do I tape every other seem on the opposite > side? Do you make this by using the 6 inch tape, or do I have to build > clothe hinges? Would a simple canvas strip glued onto the sheets work > as a hinge? I've seen a writeup where someone build k-hinges, but > that's more sewing than I can tackle. It seems like having things > partially assembled would save a load of time during setup. > Thanks for your help, > JR > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en. > > -- Vinay Gupta Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest http://hexayurt.com - free/open next generation human sheltering http://hexayurt.com/plan - the whole systems, big picture vision "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer" - Albert Camus Twitter/Skype/Gizmo/Gtalk/AIM: hexayurt UK Cell : +44 (0) 7500 895568 / USA VOIP (+1) 775-743-1851 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en.
