# Folding Hexayurt Opening and Closing > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [373]. 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, 2007-10-09 (YouTube upload date), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1GjymP3MUc. Text: automatic captions, uncorrected - 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): Prototype testing of the deployable shelter. - Career works it belongs to: - Folding hexayurt (2007): An 8-foot hexayurt that folds into a single flat package and unfolds in minutes, first shown on video in... - 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) - Buttered Side Down (2009): A historic risk management consultancy set up with Mike Bennett in 2009, behind the OODA 2x2 model and the... (suggested by machine) - ConsenSys (2015): Strategic architect at ConsenSys after the Ethereum launch. (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - cryptographic applications: Cryptography applied: from 1990s cypherpunk practice to identity cards, Ethereum and Mattereum. (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 — tape, hexayurt, roof (100%) - Importance: core-text score 0.11 (1.00 is the top), number 497 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [375] [Folding Hexayurt Briefing (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/375.md): same career work: Folding hexayurt - [329] [RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Folding Combined Endeavor (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/329.md): same career work: Folding hexayurt - On the same works, just before: [375] [Folding Hexayurt Briefing (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/375.md); [101] [Hexayurt project/Mass evacuation (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/101.md); [15] [Nuclear / mass evacuation (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/15.md) - On the same works, just after: [109] [akvo.org - Home (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/109.md); [833] [Vinay Gupta - Hexayurt Project - Briefing to the... (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/833.md); [847] [The Living City (slides; Mike Bennett & Vinay Gupta,... (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/847.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: Folding Hexayurt Opening and Closing, video, 2007-10-09, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1GjymP3MUc; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [373], https://guptaoption.com/texts/373.md. Other speakers' passages are removed, so there can be gaps. ## Passages [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1GjymP3MUc&t=0s) Should we try it again? Well, you know, I mean, one of these days we'll get just the right angle and we'll understand how to make it work. And once we understand why, then it'll be easy. Yeah. Once Yeah. understanding comes. Understanding comes. So, let's just pop it close together. [Music] Yep. Closed. This side and this side. One, two, three. One, two, three. Closed. All right. So, why doesn't they open that easily? What's different between closing and opening that's so makes it so hard? Yeah, I don't know either. That's why I'm asking you. Pull out this side and this side. This side. Okay. So, let's give let's give that a try. This. Yes. Okay, you got it. Now, what did we do that made it easy that time? Pulled on the two opposite ends. Ends it lift up and that makes it easy. Okay, let's give that a try again. Yeah. Okay. So, what did you do that? Which which So, we pulled on this and the other side in the same place. No, no, the other side on this place. Okay. Okay. So, basically, you're pulling halfway around from where the door opening is. From where the from where the seam that splits is, you're pulling halfway around. Okay. Let's try that one. Boom. Easy. Wonderful. Wonderful. Well done. Perfect. --- End of [373] Folding Hexayurt Opening and Closing. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [109](https://guptaoption.com/texts/109.md) akvo.org - Home (2008); the most closely related, [375](https://guptaoption.com/texts/375.md) Folding Hexayurt Briefing (2007); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.