I would like to see more of this on Grand Designs (and less of Kevin McCloud)
Last week, Vinay Gupta came to WSA and gave an interesting guest lecture about Open Hardware Shelter Technology. He showed us Hexayurts, these geometric, six-sided, plywood shelters he reckons could help solve housing challenges for the world’s climate refugees. I thought they look super:
I think it’s a great design solution and idea for a pretty complex humanitarian issue.
What’s more, they look so cool I want to build one and stick it in my garden. Problem is, I don’t think my garden is big enough for a metallic Hexayurt (and a silver space-sphere thingamagig).
This got me interested in yurt-living. And I can most definitely imagine myself living in this:
Or this:
I am no hippie by any means but this is soooo much better than the cramped up, measly “charming studio flat” estate agents try to flog to you for stupid hundred thousands of money. Apparently you can buy a yurt in the US for anything between USD4000 - USD10,000. And you can make it yourself - the Mongolians make it look extremely doable. Forget fleur-de-lis wallpaper, Georgian fireplaces and Kevin McCloud’s shit hosting; I think yurts are the way forward, plywood ones for humanitarian purposes and lux ones for us to rid the world of evil estate agents.
