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(originally posted November 10, 2012)

A hexayurt is a shelter designed for people with a small housing budget.

The Hexayurt can be made from about $300 of materials from Home Depot, plus about $100-150 of mail-ordered tape. Depending on the construction technique, it takes 4-8 hours to prepare at home and 1-4 hours of assembly at your destination.

Here are the specifics on the 8 ft. version (aka H12) . . .

http://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_playa_checklist

From the 8' Hexayurt instructions, you can probably learn to make any other hexayurt design.  Here is a photo of  the 12 ft. version (aka H18) . . .

http://www.flickr.com/photos/agb/241075522/in/photostream/

Here is additional information on the Hexayurt shelter . . .

http://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_playa

http://www.appropedia.org/images/1/11/Hexayurt_One_Pager.pdf - (1 page .PDF file)

http://hexayurt.com/

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submitted by Vinay Gupta - May 7, 2015

http://files.howtolivewiki.com/hexayurt_in_haiti_v1.1.pdf was our design for Haiti - it may (or may not) be worth adapting for Nepal. You will need a structural engineer.
 
http://hexayurt.com/hexayurt_country/ has a general perspective
 
http://www.grifaid.org/why-aquafilters/ is a very, very good, cheap, fast, reliable water filter which I recommend
 
http://resiliencemaps.org/files/Dealing_in_Security.July2010.en.pdf is an infrastructure mapping technology designed to be done on whiteboards or in Excel, which can help different groups coordinate
 
https://vimeo.com/16426214 is a video which explains the use of that system in a bit of detail, from about the 22 minute mark

(in this video it discusses an economic collapse, but . . . general approach)

howdy folks