# burning ice brussels seven minute tour > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [364]. 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, 2011-01-21 (YouTube upload date), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUfIe8xcR1M. Text: automatic captions, mostly corrected - 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): A built deployment showing hexayurts scale to communal spaces. - Career works it belongs to: - 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... - H13 (2010): Community-designed Hexayurt with a full-height door. - Laziness, Impatience and Hubris (2011): Talk at c-base, Berlin: Larry Wall's three virtues of a programmer applied to building, by a hackitect. - First hexayurt built (2003): The first Hexayurt prototype, built at Burning Man from cardboard panels. (suggested by machine) - Camp Danger hinge (2010): Community-designed folding Hexayurt held together by tape hinges. (suggested by machine) - A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine (2014): His "very conservative vision" for global change: six or maybe eight machines everyone on earth should... (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. - standard SKUs: A survival kit built only from standard, mass-produced parts. (through a work suggested by machine) - Topics: fab / yes / laser (67%); Burning Man shelter building (33%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Burning Ice (2 here; 3 sources in all, earliest dated 2002); solar lights (1 here; 12 sources in all, earliest dated 2011, 1 undated); Spanish (1 here; 28 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 3 undated) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): solar lights - Importance: core-text score 0.41 (1.00 is the top), number 159 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [321] [Vinay Gupta talking at FreeAndReal / The Telaithrion... (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/321.md): same career work: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris - [247] [Hexayurt Interviews Hexayurt Footage From The... (2020)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/247.md): close in content (cosine 0.87) - On the same works, just before: [105] [Hexayurt project/Nearodesic (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/105.md); [830] [Laziness, Impatience and Hubris: Vinay Gupta of the... (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/830.md); [87] [The Atrocity Archives, and a little new fiction. | The... (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/87.md) - On the same works, just after: [46] [Reawakening the Enlightenment | The Bucky-Gandhi Design... (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/46.md); [51] [The Only Way Out Is UP | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/51.md); [50] [The Synthesis | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/50.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: burning ice brussels seven minute tour, video, 2011-01-21, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUfIe8xcR1M; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [364], https://guptaoption.com/texts/364.md. Other speakers' passages are removed, so there can be gaps. ## Passages [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUfIe8xcR1M&t=0s) so this is a quick video of the tour of the burning ice festival and the changing tents our changing rooms confit etre in Brussels $2,000 worth job so first side extra that were going on this performance space which is two plus four foot stretch hak-seon trailer with an amplitude war that whole wolf and it's a huge space it's about I guess five meters by eight maybe nine a big video projector screen at one end that's a big gray rectangle this is some kind of installation I don't know what it is it's a pair of scales with record player I have no idea what that's about and the space seats maybe 40 people it was made in about four hours from pre-taped components by harmon who were going to see a little later in the video and now we're coming into the kitchen tent this is 6 foot + 4 foot stretch and you can see we've got tables you there are 8 or 10 people that consider your comfortably including on our kitchen space it's Russell and fire extinguisher very important now we come out here and this is a an H 13 which is one of the new hexayurt designers they came from Dylan toymaker in Canada this is just it's amazing it's the first time I've been inside of eh 13 and with one additional board you get this full height entryway and a really nice interior space so you don't have the problem that all the walls are low you have two walls which are a fool eight feet in height around one corner and this is a herbalism sort of an apothecary tent so they're growing things under big blue cool white in one corner and the little vials and things have just passed in the other signs are all threes into her Bowl medicines this is if a genious tent and you can see there are some where are they there we are there's a whole series of clothes that she's made which have been altered and modified and it's kind of like a dress up 10 for the entire festival because you can go and you can take different things where the rug suing machine in your work Spanish all the stuff there's a model of the original oh yeah here we come I would sneak here and there's a little GD zip dome it covers a [2:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUfIe8xcR1M&t=150s) little garden and it's very elegantly made and it's like bicycle spokes hammered flat and drilled and then held together with pop rivets so I was quite pressed for that as well mr. Medina there cf-30 actually and these are the illumination HQ solar lights you've been using at night so right now there are excited charging and a better take one of them now to go into the casino tent now that's a woman a shinjuku calm and there are like seven dollars each being sold in Tanzania a solar panel on one side 12 LEDs on the other and as beautiful and elegant this is a casino tank which is usually empty during the daytime and at night it's used as a casino for a very strange game where you win bags of small coins and then have to carry them around if you want abundance and this over here is the rocket stove that we built from 87 Firebirds so on the bottom you can see there's our burn area and then the rest of the stove graduating narrows in a way that transmits lots of heat to the bread what's the people to brick so you get like radiant heat and then the top you can see there's a nozzle so the a jet of hot air that's being burned and the stove comes out and he's going to try and treat me and host on the air jet is it this piece of cardboard I'm digging around in the forceful area so because it's not falling down which I knew because so much hot air is coming up and it's also completely clear it's not smoke so the air when I put my hand it feels like five hot air blowers like a hand dryers put together it's just is enormous if a driver this is the hub Brussels tent Hermann McConnell first for every because over there was making the video right now he's being filmed another camera series this is our master builder actually built all the hexayurts here with a little assistance for me and it's just it's fantastic you want hopefully you can get your link this to the interview mr. Coates working in the hub I kept you up to go so dig look at a couple of exhibitions and then we'll be done this is the at the star door which is very very straight and I was looking the damn thing over does [5:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUfIe8xcR1M&t=300s) look very good and this one over here is the biography hacks here it's an installation which takes various sorts of funk media and does this kind of strange hard to explain interactive storytelling thing there's a gigantic octagonal platform in the middle with a manual typewriter and there's all kinds of bits of computer hardware around and the whole thing interacts to be I guess this experience of actually telling your story in a way that's almost like television and all the pieces are connected together with five media it's out of quite an interesting space I haven't done the at the experience yeah it takes about an hour and there's a whole sort of interactive aspect that's scheduled for a little later on today or no so no car so not come son so this is a sauna in a van you can see this here's the shower and then in the back of the van just yeah just a second we go look at that sauna for two people you can get in as many 7-pound it's wood-fired and right now I'm struggling to get the get the door open um you can see it's which we have the stove built directly into the door of the van there and you would would just feed the heat into the back of the truck absolutely a really nice piece of work and say it's called the seal a positive sign and that finally this is a car that's been in that converted to be still alive anymore so it's been completely stripped in the interior and it's being run as a generator and all this exhaust into this large pipe as the sound so um there we are that's the burning ice festival hexayurt account but and thank you very much to everybody involved it's been really good being here and it's definitely transformed by thinking in some pretty deep ways --- End of [364] burning ice brussels seven minute tour. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [46](https://guptaoption.com/texts/46.md) Reawakening the Enlightenment | The Bucky-Gandhi Design... (2011); the most closely related, [321](https://guptaoption.com/texts/321.md) Vinay Gupta talking at FreeAndReal / The Telaithrion... (2012); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.