# Hexayurt project/Nearodesic > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [105]. 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), 2011 (year of the work, not of publication), https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_project/Nearodesic. Text: document text - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the money step (Global Village Development Bank, 2009), before the ledgers step (Ethereum launch, 2015). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Larger hexayurt-family domes for community buildings (duplicate capture). - Career works it belongs to: - Quaddome (2011): Community-designed dome in which every triangle is half a 4x8 sheet. - Sheet-waste question (1995): The question behind the Hexayurt: how to build a dome from 4x8 sheets without wasting 25 to 40 percent of... (suggested by machine) - H18 (2006): A tall Hexayurt: 18 panels and 12-foot walls. (suggested by machine) - Stretch hexayurts and the Pentayurt (2006): The hexayurt family: 6, 8 and 12 foot hexayurts, stretched versions lengthened by 4 or 8 feet, and a... (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) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - hexayurt builds: Hexayurt variants, many designed and built by the community. - 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) - Topics: Hexayurt shelter design & project — tape, hexayurt, roof (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Tridome (8 here; 4 sources in all, earliest dated 2002); Quaddome (9 here; 8 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 1 undated); Open Toolbox (1 here; 8 sources in all, earliest dated 2002); The Open Toolbox (1 here; 8 sources in all, earliest dated 2002); 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 0.08 (1.00 is the top), number 642 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: Quaddome - [193] [Nearodesic Polyhedron Hexayurt Dome – Morgan Engel's Site (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/193.md): same career work: Quaddome - On the same works, just before: [90] [The Hexayurt in Haiti – a technical description | The... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/90.md); [14] [Hexayurt Country (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md); [118] [File:Hexayurt at Burning Man 2010.jpg - Wikimedia Commons (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/118.md) - On the same works, just after: [364] [burning ice brussels seven minute tour (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/364.md); [751] [Vinay Gupta and Julie Danger on Camp Danger Semi Folding... (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/751.md); [193] [Nearodesic Polyhedron Hexayurt Dome – Morgan Engel's Site (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/193.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/Nearodesic, document, 2011, https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_project/Nearodesic; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [105], https://guptaoption.com/texts/105.md. ## Passages [passage 1](https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_project/Nearodesic) The Nearodesic designs (Near-geodesic) were designed by Edmund Harriss. His website goes into much more detail of where the design came from and the maths behind it. Here is another page going over the Tridome. A team of engineers did an entire Construction Analysis of the Tridome. Here is a small summary document of Tridomes and Quaddomes: https://library.uniteddiversity.coop/Ecological_Building/Hexayurt_Family.pdf Morgan Engel has construction details of a Quaddome on his website, as well as details for making Scale Models Hexayurt project/Master List of Designs for more details Technical Name H Name Total sheets Nickname Build Score # People Sqft Footprint Dia (ft) Walls (ft) Height (ft) Waste Notes Tridome H21 21 Tridome 5.79 8 458.00 25.83 6.08 10.00 No Roof dome normal, wall half domes at 164 deg Tridome 4ft Stretch H25 25 Tridome 4ft Stretch 7.33 10 556.00 30.00 6.08 10.00 No Roof dome normal, wall half domes at 164 deg Tridome 8ft Stretch H29 29 Tridome 8ft Stretch 10.57 12 648.00 33.83 6.08 10.00 No Roof dome normal, wall half domes at 164 deg Quaddome H30 30 Quaddome 5.33 8 448.00 24.00 8.00 11.39 No all domes at 151 deg, domes connect at 169, roof and triangles at 155 Quaddome 4ft Stretch H35 35 Quaddome 4ft Stretch 7.54 10 544.00 29.50 8.00 11.39 No all domes at 151 deg, domes connect at 169, roof and triangles at 155 Quaddome 8ft Stretch H40 40 Quaddome 8ft Stretch 9.93 12 640.00 33.33 8.00 11.39 No all domes at 151 deg, domes connect at 169, roof and triangles at 155 Stacked Quaddome H114 114 Stacked Quaddome 5.87 20 1856.00 57.00 8.00 22.78 No Since both domes have a line of symmetry in them, they can be stretched with sheets of 4x8s to make as big a place as you need. Shelter, Housing, Emergency management, Emergency shelter, Appropriate technology, The Open Toolbox SDG11 Sustainable cities and communities, SDG10 Reduced inequalities Xyver CC-BY-SA-3.0 English (en) 0 subpages, 2 pages link here 135 page views (analytics) May 14, 2024 by Xyver January 9, 2026 by StandardWikitext bot Xyver (2024–2026). "Hexayurt project/Nearodesic". Appropedia. Retrieved November 2, 2026. basic, semantic, html, files, more SDG11 Sustainable cities and communities SDG10 Reduced inequalities Hexayurt project --- End of [105] Hexayurt project/Nearodesic. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [364](https://guptaoption.com/texts/364.md) burning ice brussels seven minute tour (2011); 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.