# Hexayurt project/Assembly > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [103]. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: document (Text), 2006-10-11 (from the career record), https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_project/Assembly. Text: document text - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the start (Hexayurt, 2002), before the money step (Global Village Development Bank, 2009). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Assembly of Harappa's housing unit (duplicate capture). - Career works it belongs to: - H18 (2006): A tall Hexayurt: 18 panels and 12-foot walls. - Hexayurt (2002): A public-domain disaster shelter made from whole 4x8 building panels with one diagonal cut. (suggested by machine) - First hexayurt built (2003): The first Hexayurt prototype, built at Burning Man from cardboard panels. (suggested by machine) - Folding hexayurt (2007): An 8-foot hexayurt that folds into a single flat package and unfolds in minutes, first shown on video in... (suggested by machine) - Hexayurt Project: from sheds to sustainability (2013): Talk at Electromagnetic Wave 2013, London: what a small shed can do for nine billion people living within... (suggested by machine) - Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and Maximizing Global Minimalism (2014): Talk at Electromagnetic Field 2014: the Hexayurt as engineering outside the market, for the three billion... (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - hexayurt builds: Hexayurt variants, many designed and built by the community. - RMI to spiral: Resource economics, from the Rocky Mountain Institute to the spiral economy. (through a work suggested by machine) - STAR-TIDES: The National Defense University project and the papers around it. (through a work suggested by machine) - fiction draws on: The work that fed the fiction. (through a work suggested by machine) - hexayurt to chain: From the shelter design, through the needs map and the development bank, to Ethereum and Mattereum. (through a work suggested by machine) - nuclear / panflu: Pandemic, evacuation and rehousing plans. (through a work suggested by machine) - Topics: Hexayurt shelter design & project — tape, hexayurt, roof (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Hexayurt Playa (2 here; 7 sources in all, earliest dated 2002); Stretch hexayurt (1 here; 5 sources in all, earliest dated 2006); Open Toolbox (1 here; 8 sources in all, earliest dated 2002); The Open Toolbox (1 here; 8 sources in all, earliest dated 2002); Camp Danger hinge (1 here; 9 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 1 undated); Camp Danger (1 here; 10 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 1 undated); SleepBreeze (1 here; 10 sources in all, earliest dated 2002); mass evacuation (1 here; 11 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 1 undated); Hexayurt Project (3 here; 70 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 4 undated); Appropedia (1 here; 34 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 3 undated) - Importance: core-text score 0.34 (1.00 is the top), number 198 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [36] [The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world (2002)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md): same career work: H18 - [102] [Hexayurt project/Hexayurt playa (2006)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md): same career work: H18 - On the same works, just before: [102] [Hexayurt project/Hexayurt playa (2006)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md); [192] [worldchanging.com (2006)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/192.md); [825] [Index of /hexayurt_sketchup_files (2006)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/825.md) - On the same works, just after: [829] [Index of /innovative_sheltering/day_one (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/829.md); [850] TIDES Boards 2 (2007); [375] [Folding Hexayurt Briefing (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/375.md) ## Reading it Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it. Cite as: Hexayurt project/Assembly, document, 2006-10-11, https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_project/Assembly; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [103], https://guptaoption.com/texts/103.md. ## Passages [passage 1](https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_project/Assembly) Basics Assembly Safety Information Camp Danger Hinge Design Principles All Yurt Designs Materials Materials Construction Resources Thermal Analysis Hexayurt Plywood Bi-Directional Filament Tape Infrastructure Infrastructure Spectrum of Infrastructure Solar Cooling Gas Water Sewage Modifications Frame BFD Mod Sleepbreeze Cooler Permenant Hexayurt Research Field Applications Hexayurt Playa Military Mass Evacuation Rapid Deployment Materials Plywood TUE Research Builders Discussion Informatics Basic Education Concept Future Research Agenda Blue Sky Idea Mill To-Do Misc Events Press Contact Funding Wiki Maintenance PDF Download these pages as a PDF so you can print them or read them offline. Booklet Download these pages as a PDF that you can print, fold and staple into a booklet. Available in other languages: /pt /tr A large body of do-it-yourself hexayurt building information has been created by Vinay Gupta and average folk who made their own. Incidentally, a lot of the average folks attend the Burning Man Arts Festival, which is hosted in a windy, hot desert. Hexayurts made with rigid insulation are great in that environment. Whatever you're planning to build a hexayurt for, you can find all variety of hexayurt shapes and sizes, and instructions at Hexayurt playa. If you're interested in more about plywood hexayurts, see hexayurt.com. Videos 8' Hexayurt Assembly How to make Tape Anchors - the tie-downs between the roof components and the guy lines on the larger Hexayurts Quicktime Higher quality but we pay for the bandwidth. Please download these and save them locally if you want to view them frequently. http://files.howtolivewiki.com/tape_anchors.mov (7M) (How to make Tape Anchors - the tie-downs between the roof components and the guy lines on the larger hexayurts) http://files.howtolivewiki.com/6_foot_stretch_hexayurt assembly.web.mov (56M) (6' Stretch Hexayurt Assembly) http://files.howtolivewiki.com/8_foot_hexayurt_assembly_video.mov (39M) (8' Hexayurt Assembly) Hexayurt project Shelter, Housing, Emergency management, Emergency shelter, Appropriate technology, The Open Toolbox SDG11 Sustainable cities and communities, SDG10 Reduced inequalities CC-BY-SA-3.0 English (en) Turkish, Portuguese 2 subpages, 41 pages link here Hexayurt assembly 932 page views (analytics) October 11, 2006 by Anonymous1 December 16, 2025 by Felipe Schenone "Hexayurt project/Assembly". Appropedia. 2006–2025. Retrieved October 30, 2026. basic, semantic, html, files, more Hexayurt project SDG11 Sustainable cities and communities SDG10 Reduced inequalities --- End of [103] Hexayurt project/Assembly. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [829](https://guptaoption.com/texts/829.md) Index of /innovative_sheltering/day_one (2007); the most closely related, [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md) The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world (2002); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.