# Vinay Gupta and Julie Danger on Camp Danger Semi Folding Hexayurt > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [751]. 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, 2011-05-19 (YouTube upload date), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLBPY3-CpwM. 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): Community hexayurt variant that sped up assembly, a step towards folding designs. - Career works it belongs to: - Camp Danger hinge (2010): Community-designed folding Hexayurt held together by tape hinges. - First hexayurt built (2003): The first Hexayurt prototype, built at Burning Man from cardboard panels. (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) - 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. - 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 (67%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Stretch hexayurt (1 here; 5 sources in all, earliest dated 2006); Appropedia (2 here; 34 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 3 undated); H13 (1 here; 10 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 1 undated); Camp Danger (1 here; 10 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 1 undated); Tell Me Who You Are (1 here; 11 sources in all, earliest dated 2011, 2 undated); Burning Man (3 here; 90 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 1 undated) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): Tell Me Who You Are - Importance: core-text score 0.23 (1.00 is the top), number 337 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [98] [Hexayurt project/Camp danger Hexayurt hinge technique (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/98.md): same career work: Camp Danger hinge - [36] [The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world (2002)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md): same career work: Camp Danger hinge - On the same works, just before: [105] [Hexayurt project/Nearodesic (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/105.md); [364] [burning ice brussels seven minute tour (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/364.md); [78] [Living Video and the Akvo Video Strategy | The... (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/78.md) - On the same works, just after: [193] [Nearodesic Polyhedron Hexayurt Dome – Morgan Engel's Site (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/193.md); [329] [RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Folding Combined Endeavor (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/329.md); [336] [RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Roof Cone Combined Endeavor (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/336.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: Vinay Gupta and Julie Danger on Camp Danger Semi Folding Hexayurt, video, 2011-05-19, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLBPY3-CpwM; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [751], https://guptaoption.com/texts/751.md. Other speakers' passages are removed, so there can be gaps. ## Passages [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLBPY3-CpwM&t=0s) tell me who you are all right my name is Julie danger and I live in the San Francisco Bay area where I grew up and I started going to Burning Man in 2001 with my brother and a bunch of good friends and I took a few years off and my comeback this year I decided to make an 8ft hexayurt YT to live in and share with my camp and um and when we built it much as I'm not handy personally when we built it we thought that we could do it as a semi folding YT without having to uh miter the edges of the panels with power tools which is such a pain the material just it doesn't like to be cut and it it it I was a little too lazy for that so with uh the help of a very good uh engineer my dad who taught me quite a lot about isoceles triangles in my youth um we figured out just a way to change the tape um and create a gap with a hinge um so that the whole thing could accordion fold down for shipping to the same 4x8 footprint and then um open up so you your there the first question that I had was on the easiest space which was the the wall panels um and I knew that I needed them to make this shape later and do you know this in shipping so so this is really easy to do right that's just a little tape hinge but to get this one to do that way and go the other way you have to create I don't know how how well this is going to show up but you just have to create a gap in the tape so that actually stretches run when you fold it yes right and then um you know we designed the taping so that the hinges that are made will also do the step of sealing the material so perhaps you use a little bit less tape ultimately theing SE correct so the walls are not that exciting because the walls aren't that hard to construct but the roof Cone Construction I kind of saw some videos and it didn't look like very much fun so I I don't I don't want to say it's a nightmare but it's definitely the least favorite part of the hex [2:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLBPY3-CpwM&t=150s) a friend of mine says um you know how to get a roof cone uh and a headache uh with five people in 45 minutes that's what he calls it that's it so so the semi folding hinges work just the same on the roof which is probably the most important place for them um The Gap is slightly less that's the magic of geometry but this also makes a handy fan at Burning Man but holds flop you put two next to each other and you still a 4 by eight stack of pels oh here's what did earlier oh yeah that's what I'm talking about Tada yeah oh this is the kid from the video perfectly shippable magic excellent yeah excellent yeah and it's you know it's a little bit harder to see here the videos that I made might be a little bit better but the um the Gap done correctly makes this panel make the perfect angle that's necessary for the roof locks into place it's such a good design yeah our our big one something about the stickiness of the tape and the size of it when we literally like throw half of the roof cone out on the grass it sort of holds the right shape already that's fantastic yeah yeah so I mean I'm going to put this video up on the homepage and then uh we'll put some links to the videos you made show how to make it and the Appropedia Pages where there's the documentation everything else um yeah hopefully a lot people will make them this wonderful yeah I I think it should make everything a lot easier um and my motto for burning man is don't do stuff there don't make stuff there I even make my food at home and you know freeze it and bring it up so build it home not on the pla um and hopefully this technique should work for some of the other sizes and shapes of hexayurts so what's up on appropedia is um the camp danger hex which shows the classic 8ot done with the hinges and how to do the hinges and then there's also um the h13 hex which increases one of the sides of the Y to 8 foot so you can have a fullsize door brilliant design um very happy to apply this technique to it as well and um I'm working on the six foot stretch hexayurt and where to put those hinges um if anyone wants to pick up that sixo stretch is really hard because you end up with this 4 in gap running right along the L of the roof right [5:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLBPY3-CpwM&t=300s) um depends on the kind of hinge you put there yeah no folding folding that one is a tricky Pur tricky yeah I just have been I went back and forth on you know how many panels I wanted to cut and how many hinges and what the shipping size would be and I kind of gave up on it but hopefully we'll have that available as well --- End of [751] Vinay Gupta and Julie Danger on Camp Danger Semi Folding Hexayurt. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [193](https://guptaoption.com/texts/193.md) Nearodesic Polyhedron Hexayurt Dome – Morgan Engel's Site (2011); the most closely related, [98](https://guptaoption.com/texts/98.md) Hexayurt project/Camp danger Hexayurt hinge technique (2010); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.