# The Hexayurt Project 2007 Intro Video > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [374]. 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, 2007-07-30 (YouTube upload date), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF68hZnPxcs. Text: automatic captions, mostly corrected - 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): Introduces the public-domain shelter project. - Career works it belongs to: - Hexayurt (2002): A public-domain disaster shelter made from whole 4x8 building panels with one diagonal cut. - 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) - Laziness, Impatience and Hubris (2011): Talk at c-base, Berlin: Larry Wall's three virtues of a programmer applied to building, by a hackitect. (suggested by machine) - Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and Maximizing Global Minimalism (2014): Talk at Electromagnetic Field 2014: the Hexayurt as engineering outside the market, for the three billion... (suggested by machine) - Hexacoat (2023): A hooded coat cut from woobie blanket fabric, made to order by a Chinese wholesale factory for about £25. (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - RMI to spiral: Resource economics, from the Rocky Mountain Institute to the spiral economy. - STAR-TIDES: The National Defense University project and the papers around it. - fiction draws on: The work that fed the fiction. - 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. - nuclear / panflu: Pandemic, evacuation and rehousing plans. - Topics: Hexayurt shelter design & project — hexayurt, hexayurt project, project (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Department of Defense (1 here; 30 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 1 undated); Gandhi (1 here; 34 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 1 undated); Burning Man (2 here; 90 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 1 undated); Hexayurt Project (1 here; 70 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 4 undated) - Importance: core-text score 0.35 (1.00 is the top), number 192 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: Hexayurt - [100] [Hexayurt project (2002)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/100.md): same career work: Hexayurt - On the same works, just before: [850] TIDES Boards 2 (2007); [375] [Folding Hexayurt Briefing (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/375.md); [101] [Hexayurt project/Mass evacuation (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/101.md) - On the same works, just after: [15] [Nuclear / mass evacuation (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/15.md); [137] [STAR-TIDES (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/137.md); [833] [Vinay Gupta - Hexayurt Project - Briefing to the... (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/833.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: The Hexayurt Project 2007 Intro Video, video, 2007-07-30, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF68hZnPxcs; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [374], https://guptaoption.com/texts/374.md. Other speakers' passages are removed, so there can be gaps. ## Passages [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF68hZnPxcs&t=0s) the first hex came from the P we've come a long way since then 12T hexayurt video but hexayurt work anyway be low rent perfect combine panels tape so keep it very taught and high and the German Army optional there we but very helpful yes woo and burning man there's a movement to bring this to The Burning Man festival and the Department of Defense it's an Arts Festival formally but it's h kind of a different one some Gandhi but the Indian problem remain thank God Ser with some Bucky half bug and half buggy and you have the Hexayurt Project an open-source design pool solving Global problems partnership and Technology a wood gas hexayurt.com and apedia --- End of [374] The Hexayurt Project 2007 Intro Video. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [15](https://guptaoption.com/texts/15.md) Nuclear / mass evacuation (2007); 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.