# Vinay Gupta - Hexayurt Project - Briefing to the STAR-TIDES team at National Defense University > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [833]. 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: document (Web page), 2008-04-08 (from the career record), https://files.howtolivewiki.com/star_tides_ndu_briefing_8_apr_08/index.html. Text: document text - 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): Early statement that refugees spend decades in camps, the problem Harappa answers. - 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... - Briefing to the STAR-TIDES team at National Defense University (2008): Recorded briefing to the STAR-TIDES team at NDU, with a seven-point outline and the reading list behind... - First Pentagon Proposal: the Hexayurt Research Agenda (2006): An outline asking for funding to make the Hexayurt an off-the-shelf item and to assemble a Complete Family... (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) - Topics: Hexayurt shelter design & project — hexayurt, hexayurt project, project (50%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: TIDES (7 here; 34 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 5 undated); panflu (3 here; 8 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 2 undated); NDU (2 here; 4 sources in all, earliest dated 2008); distributed infrastructure (3 here; 22 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 5 undated); Combined Endeavor (1 here; 3 sources in all, earliest dated 2006); Long Peace (1 here; 3 sources in all, earliest dated 2006); SPRS (1 here; 3 sources in all, earliest dated 2008); Winning the Long Peace (1 here; 3 sources in all, earliest dated 2006); Networked Domestic Disaster Response (1 here; 3 sources in all, earliest dated 2002); Severe Panflu Response Strategies (1 here; 4 sources in all, earliest dated 2006) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): solar cooking; NDU; Progressive Building Solutions; SPRS - Importance: core-text score 0.46 (1.00 is the top), number 128 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [270] [Hope For The World (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md): same career work: Folding hexayurt - [335] [STAR-TIDES briefing from Vinay Gupta (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md): same career work: Briefing to the STAR-TIDES team at National Defense University - On the same works, just before: [373] [Folding Hexayurt Opening and Closing (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/373.md); [71] [TIDES – the skinny! | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/71.md); [137] [STAR-TIDES (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/137.md) - On the same works, just after: [70] [The systemic risks model for survival | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/70.md); [69] [The Open Toolbox for Domestic Disaster Response – new... (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/69.md); [27] [Index of /hope_for_the_world (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/27.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 - Hexayurt Project - Briefing to the STAR-TIDES team at National Defense University, document, 2008-04-08, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/star_tides_ndu_briefing_8_apr_08/index.html; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [833], https://guptaoption.com/texts/833.md. ## Passages [passage 1](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/star_tides_ndu_briefing_8_apr_08/index.html) Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt Project) - Briefing to the STAR-TIDES team at US National Defense University 8 April 2008 Video and Audio of the presentation http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8817268834820921225&hl=en Watch on Google Video. Right-click the following URLS and select "safe file" or "download to desktop" - these files are too big to play in your browser, you should download them and then play them locally. http://files.howtolivewiki.com/star_tides_ndu_briefing_8_apr_08/vinay_gupta_camera_src.MOV - 150 megabyte video file, .MOV format, H264 encoder - may require iTunes or Quicktime to view. http://files.howtolivewiki.com/star_tides_ndu_briefing_8_apr_08/vinay_gupta_camera_src_audio.MP3 - audio only (MP3, 30mb) BACKUP: cached link to video, audio. Content referenced in the presentation STAR-TIDES technical introduction - forty page overview, with brief slides describing stoves, solar cookers and so on, plus a comprehensive introduction to distributed infrastructure for SSTR etc. BRITTLE POWER: ENERGY STRATEGY FOR NATIONAL SECURITY - Amory & Hunter Lovins, 1982. Amazon - discusses why you can't operate or rebuild an electrical grid in a war zone. Networked Domestic Disaster Response - Vinay Gupta. Using Hexayurts and ICT to temporarily house Americans after an event like the Bay Quake or WMD terrorism. Severe Panflu Response Strategies (SPRS) - Vinay Gupta. Covers high fatality rate (CFR) flus, and domestic food security. Video presentation also available at that link. Winning the Long Peace - Vinay Gupta. Appropriate technology as foreign policy, general directions for consideration in the context of AFRICOM and similar initiatives. Supported by Facilitating International Development through Free / Open Source. Envisioning a Leapfrogged World - Vinay Gupta. Discusses "victorian infrastructure" - factories which produce services which are distributed across a pipe and wire harness. Discusses alternatives, and why leapfrogging (for example) sanitation is hard. Hexayurt Infrastructure Package - basis for the "transportable infrastructure" systems of TIDES. Inspired by autonomous building concepts developed at the Rocky Mountain Institute and needs expressed at the Sustainable Settlements Charrette. Hexayurt Playa Checklist - insulation-type Hexayurt Building Instructions with links to video clips of specific processes like tape anchors. More general discussion can be found at Hexayurts for the Playa Video Hexayurt roof cone construction details from Operation Combined Endeavor 2007. Shows all the hard parts of making a Hexayurt from raw boards in loving detail. Start to finish Hexayurt construction University of Eindhoven, March 2008. Note this doesn't have close ups of things like tape anchors (we skip tape anchors - bad form!) but does show the end to end process. Making an 8' hexayurt into a 12' hexayurt (footage from the Pentagon demo, center court of the Pentagon, Nov2007.) 7 minute construction of a two part folding hexayurt in Eindhoven - this is close to the commercial hexayurt Progressive Building Solutions (Justin & Arthur) are working on. Outline SEVEN POINTS TO COVER 0> Why? Strategic 4m refugees in Iraq feeding into the insurgency infrastructure failures nearly deployed distributed infrastructure (see http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2007/07/26/lovins/ about half way through) everybody much better off if that had been done Humanitarian 20-ish million refugees one to two decades in the field Domestic katrina bay quake nuke panflu 1> The Six Ways To Die [passage 2](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/star_tides_ndu_briefing_8_apr_08/index.html) Outline SEVEN POINTS TO COVER 0> Why? Strategic 4m refugees in Iraq feeding into the insurgency infrastructure failures nearly deployed distributed infrastructure (see http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2007/07/26/lovins/ about half way through) everybody much better off if that had been done Humanitarian 20-ish million refugees one to two decades in the field Domestic katrina bay quake nuke panflu 1> The Six Ways To Die hot cold thirst hunger disease / accident violence 2> Infrastructure Note that the first 5 of these 6 items are handled by infrastructure. Police and the military handle the last. 3> Granularity of Infrastructure household town nation other granularities are possible beware interdependency independent infrastructure gets you away from interdependence 4> existing models standard humanitarian model draws from old army camps but there is no supply chain now! == big problems industrial infrastructure for things like sewage is totally inapplicable victorian infrastructure - factory, pipe and wire, creates a huge number of new targets no existing model has the right blend of price, resilience and speed of deployment. 5> TIDES Hardware Shelter water power integrated cooking cooling/lighting/heating sanitation Information & Communications Technologies (ICT) ALL DEPLOYABLE SOLUTIONS ARE WHOLE SYSTEMS The "default set" of TIDES systems is basically the Hexayurt Infrastructure Package 6> The Hexayurt supply chains are the key original spec refugees, transportable, permanent shelter tech solution to political problem (long term settlements) local materials, kinda sorta (local to the country, not local to the village in most cases.) building system insulation reflecting away heat use of the floor as a heat sink ventilation reflective walls for solar cooking and so on building tips panel cutting panel taping assembly the roof cone problem TAPE ANCHORS how guying the building down makes it rigid --- End of [833] Vinay Gupta - Hexayurt Project - Briefing to the STAR-TIDES team at National Defense University. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [70](https://guptaoption.com/texts/70.md) The systemic risks model for survival | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2008); the most closely related, [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md) Hope For The World (2017); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.