# Hexayurt Country > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [16]. 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 (PDF), 2010 (from the career record), https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Hexayurts%20for%20Haiti%20Cost%20Spreadsheet.pdf. 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): Bill of materials for mass hexayurt deployment, the costing behind a Harappa-scale build. - Career works it belongs to: - Hexayurt Country (2010): Plan to rehouse Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake in Hexayurts, financed with the money that would... - Hexayurt (2002): A public-domain disaster shelter made from whole 4x8 building panels with one diagonal cut. (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) - 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) - One Network, One World: Designing for a 7+ Billion Person World (2013): Talk at the OHM2013 hacker camp: housing everyone at one planet's worth of consumption, and why... (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - nuclear / panflu: Pandemic, evacuation and rehousing plans. - 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 builds: Hexayurt variants, many designed and built by the community. (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) - Topics: Hexayurt shelter design & project — hexayurt, hexayurt project, project (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Sphere standards (1 here; 5 sources in all, earliest dated 2009); standards (1 here; 87 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 3 undated) - Importance: core-text score 0.33 (1.00 is the top), number 209 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [14] [Hexayurt Country (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md): same career work: Hexayurt Country - [8] [Municipal Administration of Cities in Crisis (2013)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md): career thread: Municipal Administration of Cities in Crisis (Haiti, then Katrina and Sandy, for city governments) - On the same works, just before: [226] [Can we build a world with open source? | Victor Keegan |... (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/226.md); [61] [Ending Poverty With Open Hardware | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/61.md); [84] [Six Ways to Die Workshop introductory lecture at Formens... (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/84.md) - On the same works, just after: [38] [Hexayurt Country: The Hexayurt Project plan for relief... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md); [13] [Hexayurt Country (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/13.md); [90] [The Hexayurt in Haiti – a technical description | The... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/90.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 Country, document, 2010, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Hexayurts%20for%20Haiti%20Cost%20Spreadsheet.pdf; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [16], https://guptaoption.com/texts/16.md. ## Passages [p. 1](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Hexayurts%20for%20Haiti%20Cost%20Spreadsheet.pdf#page=1) Hexayurt materials cost estimate Hexayurt Shelter http://hexayurt.com * US units used throughout System numbers for large scale Totals per hexayurt Materials weight, cost and cube per hexayurt deployment Item Cost Weight Cube Units req Weight Total Cube Total Cost Total dollars pounds cubic yards pounds cubic yards dollars plywood - marine 1/4" $15 25 0.025 12 300 0.3 $180.00 8' 4"x6" lumber $3 16 0.02 5 80 0.1 $15.00 screws - 200 deck $20 4 0.05 1 4 0.05 $20.00 screws steel strapping 100ft $10 0.5 0.005 1 0.5 0.005 $10.00 gorilla glue $10 1 0.005 1 1 0.005 $10.00 steel washers 50 $5 1 0.005 1 1 0.005 $5.00 rebar stake - 3' $2 3 0.005 20 60 0.1 $40.00 plywood costs range from $6 to $25 depending on grade TOTAL 446.5 0.565 $280.00 lbs cubic yards dollars Deployment floor area / patterns hexayurt 166 square feet square feet / person 37 square feet SPHERE standards persons / yurt 4.5 hexayurt use years 3 shelter years needed 3 population to rehouse 750,000 total hexayurts 167,169 74,640,813 94,450 $46,807,229 cost/person/year $21 lbs cubic yards dollars All materials costs are US prices. Construction labor and logistics costs are not estimated. A large scale deployment will likely get lower prices than these and ship. --- End of [16] Hexayurt Country. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [38](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md) Hexayurt Country: The Hexayurt Project plan for relief... (2010); the most closely related, [14](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md) Hexayurt Country (2010); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.