# The Hexayurt in Haiti – a technical description | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [90]. 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 (Text), 2010-02-08 (from the career record), http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-hexayurt-in-haiti-a-technical-description-1678. Text: document text - 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): Storm-proof hexayurt spec pointer. - Career works it belongs to: - Hexayurt Country (2010): Plan to rehouse Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake in Hexayurts, financed with the money that would... - Hexayurt (2002): A public-domain disaster shelter made from whole 4x8 building panels with one diagonal cut. (suggested by machine) - H18 (2006): A tall Hexayurt: 18 panels and 12-foot walls. (suggested by machine) - Folding hexayurt (2007): An 8-foot hexayurt that folds into a single flat package and unfolds in minutes, first shown on video in... (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - nuclear / panflu: Pandemic, evacuation and rehousing plans. - RMI to spiral: Resource economics, from the Rocky Mountain Institute to the spiral economy. (through a work suggested by machine) - STAR-TIDES: The National Defense University project and the papers around it. (through a work suggested by machine) - fiction draws on: The work that fed the fiction. (through a work suggested by machine) - hexayurt builds: Hexayurt variants, many designed and built by the community. (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 — hexayurt, hexayurt project, project (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Hexayurt in Haiti (3 here; 6 sources in all, earliest dated 2002); Haiti (6 here; 42 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 3 undated); Hexayurt Country (1 here; 8 sources in all, earliest dated 2010, 2 undated); Hexayurt Project (1 here; 70 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 4 undated) - Importance: core-text score 0.32 (1.00 is the top), number 223 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [14] [Hexayurt Country (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md): same career work: Hexayurt Country - [38] [Hexayurt Country: The Hexayurt Project plan for relief... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md): same career work: Hexayurt Country - On the same works, just before: [104] [Hexayurt project/Hexayurt H13 (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/104.md); [38] [Hexayurt Country: The Hexayurt Project plan for relief... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md); [13] [Hexayurt Country (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/13.md) - On the same works, just after: [14] [Hexayurt Country (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md); [710] [TEDxEWB - Vinay Gupta - Enabling Humanitarian Innovation (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md); [76] [Free housing and 21st Century Leadership | The... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/76.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 in Haiti – a technical description | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution, document, 2010-02-08, http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-hexayurt-in-haiti-a-technical-description-1678; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [90], https://guptaoption.com/texts/90.md. ## Passages [passage 1](http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-hexayurt-in-haiti-a-technical-description-1678) This document outlines the basic elements of the Hexayurt Shelter in general, and one specific configuration suitable for use in Haiti. It’s 17 pages, and covers a lot of the hurricane resistance features that we envisage using in Haiti this year. The Hexayurt in Haiti Or get the PDF version of the Hexayurt in Haiti. See Hexayurt Country for the broader Hexayurt Project reconstruction plan for Haiti. Here’s some video of one of these hexayurts, without all the hurricane resistance features. Vinay Gupta is a consultant on disaster relief and risk management. http://hexayurt.com/plan One Response to The Hexayurt in Haiti – a technical description Leave a Reply Cancel reply --- End of [90] The Hexayurt in Haiti – a technical description | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [14](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md) Hexayurt Country (2010); the most closely related, [14](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md) Hexayurt Country (2010); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.