# RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Roof Cone Combined Endeavor > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [336]. 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: video, 2012-05-04 (YouTube upload date), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chgo79q-nXY. Text: automatic captions, uncorrected - 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): Assembly method for the shelter. - Career works it belongs to: - 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) - 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) - Camp Danger hinge (2010): Community-designed folding Hexayurt held together by tape hinges. (suggested by machine) - Hexacloak (2023): A hooded cloak from standard 60-inch cloth with no manufacturing step: drape, tie, twist a double loop.... (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. (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) - standard SKUs: A survival kit built only from standard, mass-produced parts. (through a work suggested by machine) - Topics: Hexayurt shelter design & project — tape, hexayurt, roof (92%) - Importance: core-text score 0.29 (1.00 is the top), number 259 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [310] [Engineers Without Borders Sheffield Plywood Hexayurt How To (2015)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/310.md): close in content (cosine 0.89) - On the same works, just before: [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); [114] [Tools To Not Die With: An Interview with Vinay Gupta,... (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/114.md) - On the same works, just after: [327] [Papa Bill's Stew-Stick Jam - Marmaduke Dando - Second Song (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/327.md); [321] [Vinay Gupta talking at FreeAndReal / The Telaithrion... (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/321.md); [310] [Engineers Without Borders Sheffield Plywood Hexayurt How To (2015)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/310.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: RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Roof Cone Combined Endeavor, video, 2012-05-04, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chgo79q-nXY; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [336], https://guptaoption.com/texts/336.md. Other speakers' passages are removed, so there can be gaps. ## Passages [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chgo79q-nXY&t=0s) so now just grabb uh four boards from there and we'll put the thing together those may all be the same kind right you need two left and two right two left two right yeah those are all yeah those are all the same okay so now take one of these and put it that just hard to get it to at line up and does this look like a straight line right over we straight just because if the if the boards were lined up like this at the beginning by the time you get to the last few boards they get jaed and they can't go all the way in because the thickness of the tape by the time you've got 24 pieces becomes significant so you leave a little bit of a gap and it means you can get the the rest of the boards in precisely uh in the long run what we hope to have is a pipe probably about this big that comes through the center of the structure and has a little roof on top of it that would be used for uh V ventilation so there'll be a little solar panel and a little fan and it would be an active ventilation system but somewhere down the line okay so now so um I'm going to show the the older way of making tape anchors which works if you don't have the plastic pipes available uh but it also works with the plastic second so the older way of tape making tape anchors works if you don't have the plastic pipe which is you fold the tape over onto itself like this once then twice and what that does is you've got this is exterior so it's not sticky Let's Fold it over you fold it over a second time then fold it [2:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chgo79q-nXY&t=150s) and what it creates is this pocket this tube that goes all the way across the thickness of the tape it isn't sticky on the inside and that's what you would put the Rope through uh the reason we use the plastic pipes is because if you just do that um what you can get is point loading at the edge of the tape so the Rope will tear through the tape a line at a time so it's better to actually make a proper anchor with the pipe but if you don't have it it still works and then then we stick this Sticky Side to Sticky Side side then up over the anchor and down the other side and that's what stops this from un rolling under load just pop a little plastic tube through and when the time comes when we actually guide a building down the Rope just goes through here down to the tent Peg like that so that becomes what sits at the base of the building and then the tape goes all the way up over the peak and then down the other side and that's where it gets its structural strength from okay second try and get that lump out if you can yeah very good good so do you want to come over and push these boards down at this side wait wait don't cut you're going to make an anchor there yeah so um you want do you want to take a try yeah okay go winds up being too long it's okay cuz you can always roll it another time and it takes up the [5:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chgo79q-nXY&t=300s) slack small um well you know see if you can get the pipe through it if not no okay well that that one we'll just that one we'll just do with rope unless you can get it undone usually once it sticks it sticks oh good good you're lucky yeah that work okay and roll it a little more yeah then then put the tape the other side and the um continuous filament property is really important like having it be a single strand mean TR so you're not you're not counting on the glue Okay so enough space in here looks good got two anchors so now we do this uh 1 2 3 4 5 six seven more times and it's done take a board uh yeah we need the other we need the other yeah that's right that's um what you'll see is that because we uh didn't cut angles on these there's a small Gap that's just fine um the one thing we want to do is is as we stick it together we want to lift in the center so that it touches tightly all the way down like if you push the bottom edges together you'll see comes into contact here because the boards bow slightly so if the boards are Bo in the middle then it'll push them apart of the so we need to lift it in the middle push it together then tape it so that it tapes in a true you know in true shape just a small so uh down at the bottom make an anchor [7:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chgo79q-nXY&t=450s) to and make it you always um this piece here usually make about you know maybe half as long again that gives you more coverage when you wrap it over the other yeah okay so P just go that just lift just a go please okay [10:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chgo79q-nXY&t=600s) fix yes oh rather than just roll the tape on it and normally I just roll the tape on it I was just showing one of the old style anchors just to start with we can switch to doing it the other done and oh I was yeah I was just getting the one for the other side and then we'll turn it a little bit when we come over to let yeah [12:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chgo79q-nXY&t=750s) y so let's just bump that up a couple of inches on this Edge uh oh yeah that's good very so that's uh 2/3 of the roof down already it's not it's not good yeah this is we figure out whether we left enough room at the top or not [15:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chgo79q-nXY&t=900s) looks like maybe not if that happens we need to trim a board to fit can I fix it so what you do is turn the board up and then that let you get surface can you lift this point this part yeah how much is it off 4 5 C 5 cm it's okay so we cut this [17:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chgo79q-nXY&t=1050s) well um at the moment I'm going to come around the other side and lift and adjust a yeah here let me come in and I'll try and adjust I can see that let me come in here and I'll try and adjust can you show me the difference can you pick them up and show with your hand how much is it out about it's about 4 cm 4 cm go 1 cm Maybe yeah okay not much let this boarding here go how's that close bit little bit okay little bit close enough so push let's pop out this board you see where the two are bouncing against each yes and then once he's got it up a few inches lift this board again and then you can come in and the last seam or two are never quite and the last seam or two are never quite as tidy as the other ones that's why we use 6in T all right right so then turn this that's it great okay so you're may as well stay there that's the plan [20:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chgo79q-nXY&t=1200s) we're basically going to leave you there until it comes time to lift this to put it onto the onto the other thing cuz we helps very much to one person underneath to help stabilize it when it lifts so see you soon okay now uh see how far this side is away from here so this is part we don't do that until I get R the other side to try and adjust it Mo it may maybe alone H he can do it alone yes that's right he he moves it up to the center so this Gap over on this side you can see we have all the boards on the other side are lined up correctly but we have a gap about 6 in here that Gap is produced by the roof being about too low by about 3 in so as he pushes the roof up from the inside it'll close that Gap and then we'll tap the final seam um but I'm going to try and get that board fitted as precisely as I can before he lifts it because the additional space you get get to work with by having the boards by having the roof a little too low is very useful okay okay about right okay great wonderful okay yeah good good good wonderful okay yeah good good good excellent wow never usually goes this easily this is good German engineer seriously normally this part is really really tricky just as I told you night okay great um that tap looks like it's getting a little short on the roll but yeah why you film that now and then we'll cover the a [22:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chgo79q-nXY&t=1350s) okay ready to roll M so the final part is a little tricky because there's no place to stand to hand the tape from one person to another um so what you have to do for the final part is stretch out basically 20 ft of tape between two people standing other sides of the building wait for it to be non- Gusty so the wind settles down and then very quickly stick it precisely on the top and then down the sides and then you go over it with another board or a piece of stick to flatten the tape out uh this doesn't always work sometimes you got to try it two or three times if the wind is bad but I think we'll be okay today so um yeah on opposite sides uh but you got you have have to take the tape with you yeah okay can you lift just a little from inside yeah just a little perfect okay so keep it very Tau and high got to pull tight very tight that's it that's it more to this side okay and lift a little okay okay tall tight very tall okay and uh got there we go okay how's it looking on that side we got a little problem here with there the gas okay okay can help me yeah yeah that's that's what's throwing it out okay can I there we go yep go for [25:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chgo79q-nXY&t=1500s) it very nice ni Yep this is good this is uh probably the tightest tolerances I've ever seen on one of these five so we need to spread it out so this is like five of the six sides yeah so move back that way take like a hexagon with one side miss it yeah see that's it sides parallel yeah and then this one to that corner how much the W yeah well to the to the edge of the even ground yeah okay so let's move the board back to the edge of the even ground and okay tap yep is that um we're going to do both sides usually it's easier if you flip the tape over yeah so you tape like 6 in on the inside and then down and it kind of holds the thing [27:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chgo79q-nXY&t=1650s) right you get it fairly close and then you get your team to lift the roof up CU we going to go far with some more people for 5 or 10 minutes so your team to lift the roof up walk it over the walls and line the walls up against the roof um what we may actually do is uh have our team lift the roof and then run the walls underneath it CU e be that way but the wind is just strong enough and it might catch underneath the roof you're trying to get roof very what is uh the cone shape is very uh is very strong so the as long as the ground is fairly flat the T will always be just about right whereas with the walls there nothing they can true so now we should keep a couple of people on this to hold it steady and we should go find another four or five people to do the final farming because um if the air is not windy then you can weave the wall unattended and you can have three people with the roof and one person run around with the tape but if it's windy and you try that the wall will blow out of the way before you get the roof on top of it and it's very disastrous cu the wall uh is if the wind catches the wall often it will break break a panel so you guys [30:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chgo79q-nXY&t=1800s) make sure this doesn't go away and we'll go get some bodies should I go with you yeah yeah yeah cuz all they're going to be Germans straight whoever needed wheat run get some cape and run run cap so couple of guys stay with the wall and and other non-aligned nations the German Army Luna training program is using the --- End of [336] RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Roof Cone Combined Endeavor. 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