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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.01,0:00:00.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Engineers Without Borders Sheffield
Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.98,0:00:02.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Plywood Hexayurt How-to Video
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.15,0:00:11.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Having 6 sides it's hard to get a sense of how big the hexayurt is.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.100,0:00:22.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our eyes are used to 4-sided buildings.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.78,0:00:41.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Could I ask you a favour? Could you walk around the hexayurt? ... Thank you!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.74,0:00:51.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have some camping mats inside to give a sense of scale.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.72,0:00:56.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How is that with 5 occupants? Very big!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.78,0:01:05.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Very big for camping, not for living.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.10,0:01:12.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With possessions.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.97,0:01:21.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fairly standard for 4 1/2 persons. One person for each wall.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.64,0:01:34.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Central shared space. For cooking.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.71,0:01:46.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stove in the center with the smoke going up.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.62,0:01:59.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In cold climates you'd put a layer of insulation on the inside. Stapled, probably.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.30,0:01:59.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Parts List
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.90,0:02:00.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All you'll need for $100 USD
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.66,0:02:01.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,12 sheets of OSB or Plywood
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.88,0:02:03.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,6 for the walls, 6 for the roof
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.20,0:02:19.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Check that the boards are 1.2 by 2.4, because sometimes they are 1.2 by 2.5.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.33,0:02:38.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mark the diagonal.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.76,0:02:39.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(5) pieces of 2x4 8' lumber
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.68,0:02:40.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for (24) 120º and (12) 120º blocks
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.81,0:03:13.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Template for the 150º block, using a pair of cutters as a compass.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.88,0:03:54.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,150º = 60º + 60º + half of 60º.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.50,0:04:04.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Accurate enough. If there's some error it will be smaller than the error when using the saw.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.65,0:04:05.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(200) 2" deck screws
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.55,0:04:06.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,self-taping if possible
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.57,0:04:24.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Walls first. I'm liking your door, looks like two eyes and a nose.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.64,0:04:27.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was not the plan; port-holes was the idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.47,0:04:39.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We love the arch. No meassuring, just using a piece of string and a pen.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.28,0:04:49.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the profile of a block. Takes more cutting but uses less wood.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.06,0:04:59.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the sholanken corner I mentioned before. 6" by 6" and cut the triangle off.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.45,0:05:02.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that the wall radius comes inside of the roof radius.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.11,0:05:06.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One block at the top and one block at the bottom.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.80,0:05:09.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A pile of spare blocks to hold the roof on.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.96,0:05:13.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are the roof triangles.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.12,0:05:17.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You screw one block on the inside of each one.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.15,0:05:25.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They overlap by the thickness of one block. If the block is 2" by 4", it's 1.75 inches [?].
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.07,0:05:44.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They all have to be oriented in the same way in terms of left over right or right over left.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.70,0:05:50.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once you have the roofs done we're going to do an awkward bit of cutting.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.81,0:05:51.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trimming fo the roof triangles
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.73,0:05:52.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(an awkward little detail)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.89,0:06:04.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need the boards to overlap on each other at the very top of the hexayurt.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.30,0:06:11.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the narrowest angle of each half-panel piece has to be cut twice:
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.27,0:06:25.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- First at the very end, to make it shorter.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.91,0:06:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Then parallel to the edge of the other board, to make it narrower.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.90,0:06:45.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How the roof works (and the awkward detail explained)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.38,0:07:39.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is how the roof pieces will go.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.96,0:07:44.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Actually this is over like that. See how they catch?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.70,0:07:48.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You tack those corners in.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.04,0:07:58.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Screw the wooden blocks on the inside.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.02,0:08:24.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the overlap of the pieces, where each roof piece rests in the one besides it.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.39,0:08:43.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what forms your roof strength. Each on over the one before.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.22,0:08:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Placing the 150º roof blocks
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.80,0:09:05.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Roughly at half height, you measure the thickness of the block,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.39,0:09:10.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you can screw it in a position like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.03,0:09:18.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the other piece of the roof wedges right into that corner.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.74,0:09:45.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Screw from the outside, this edge parallel to that edge.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.69,0:09:50.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then the other board will slide up against that and into place.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.83,0:09:52.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,About to finish the roof
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.71,0:10:02.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's clearly not quite a house, but it's definitly better than a tent.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.07,0:10:06.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If it was four times the price of a tent it really wouldn't be worth doing it.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.18,0:10:16.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But at a quarter of the price of a tent it's actually quite a technology.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.19,0:10:19.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did I hear somebody just discovered the problem of the end?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.90,0:10:23.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Someone's got to go inside, that is correct.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.69,0:10:27.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Actually for safety reasons it's best for about 4 or 5 people inside
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.47,0:10:33.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the roof can not fall on them.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.23,0:10:35.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Placing the last two roof blocks
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.07,0:10:50.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The surface of the block aligns up smoothly with the roof.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.81,0:10:54.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On one side you inset on the other side you outset.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.27,0:11:02.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The surface of the block is aligned with this surface smoothly
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.12,0:11:08.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the roof pieces fit right over them and you can screw from the outside.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.56,0:11:09.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The tricky last roof triangle
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.53,0:11:10.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and lifting the roof on to the walls!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.58,0:11:13.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's drop this solar light in here.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.42,0:11:18.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Solar panels on the back, light on the front.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.98,0:11:23.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now you can see what you're doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.87,0:11:31.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does it have a disco mode?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.84,0:11:49.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we want to slide it on those blocks that come right under the other side.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.88,0:12:09.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Final piece: you have to slide it in on one side, gently.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.18,0:12:28.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a job for hand power, not for leg power. A precision operation.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.68,0:12:41.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Slide it in! There you go, easy.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.59,0:12:56.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now you need to move it up, push it up some.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.26,0:13:07.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(That side will go over rather than under, but don't worry about that side yet.)
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.09,0:13:09.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Close enough!
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.73,0:13:36.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who's going to do the screws?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.79,0:13:54.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's someone pressing on the other side?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.97,0:13:57.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Solid, nicely done!
Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.43,0:14:00.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who's going to take a shot at the one up here?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.96,0:14:03.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're pretty light.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.40,0:15:09.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More people, more people!
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.15,0:15:46.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you guys inside lift the roof up a tiny bit, a few inches? Right!
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.07,0:16:01.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now we do the same thing again.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:01.77,0:16:12.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(holding the person who is tightning the screw by the waist
Dialogue: 0,0:16:12.08,0:16:28.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so he can work without leaning on the roof)
Dialogue: 0,0:16:28.89,0:16:34.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beautiful!
Dialogue: 0,0:16:34.07,0:16:36.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now the magic:
Dialogue: 0,0:16:36.55,0:16:56.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,3 people on every wall.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:56.18,0:17:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each lifting 10-15 pounds of weight because there are so many. Very gentle lift.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.02,0:17:09.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody inside gets ready too.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:09.32,0:17:13.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're going to lift it up and then we are going to hold it right where we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:13.89,0:17:17.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lift it to full height but we're not going to move around any.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:17.96,0:17:30.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ready? Lift slowly and gently.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:30.10,0:17:35.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lift further so it's easier. Once you're at shoulder height it weighs less.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.95,0:17:41.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody who is free go inside.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:41.62,0:17:51.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Very slowly begin to walk towards the hexayurt.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:51.55,0:17:55.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pass the weight to the people inside.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:55.83,0:18:09.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Run to the other side of the building to take it when it comes at the back.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:09.90,0:18:23.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now we need more people on the outside.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:23.81,0:18:26.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lower very gently.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:26.96,0:18:42.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Keep it aligned with the corners, mind your fingers.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:42.99,0:18:51.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Add more screws to hold down the roof properly.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:51.100,0:18:59.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Placing the mid-wall roof-blocks
Dialogue: 0,0:18:59.12,0:19:03.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a 120º block and it goes right under the section --
Dialogue: 0,0:19:03.07,0:19:18.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the two pieces of the roof cross.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:18.35,0:19:55.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hold the block from below so that it's screwed tight.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:55.50,0:19:58.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then from the inside you put in another screw --
Dialogue: 0,0:19:58.36,0:20:07.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that locks it onto the roof.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:07.60,0:20:08.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First footing!
Dialogue: 0,0:20:08.46,0:20:09.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(it's a Scottish thing)
Dialogue: 0,0:20:10.90,0:20:33.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can even put my hands up! Quite spacious. Thanks very much!
Dialogue: 0,0:20:33.73,0:20:35.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,20 people inside and
Dialogue: 0,0:20:35.34,0:20:36.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some additional notes
Dialogue: 0,0:20:36.71,0:20:40.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For Burning Man people typically have so much equipment with them --
Dialogue: 0,0:20:40.78,0:20:46.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they have to gang-carry stuff on a truck.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:46.04,0:20:50.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How many people do we have in here now?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:50.86,0:21:04.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,17 and we have some space in the middle ... 19.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:04.65,0:21:14.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Come on in, it's a hexayurt, not a clown-car.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:14.84,0:21:46.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A tonne of shelter for not much money.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:46.17,0:21:47.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't have to build them out of wood.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:47.82,0:21:55.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can use corrugated plastic and tape and then it can be folding.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:55.34,0:22:03.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hexayurt experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:03.93,0:22:09.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Half the price of a relief tent, lasts 3 times as long, about the same size.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:09.32,0:22:16.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,5 years, maybe 10?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:16.10,0:22:20.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's on every continent, now -- test units only, though.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:20.93,0:22:31.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Antartica? If you use a nice thick structural insulated panel, why not?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:31.80,0:22:42.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mongolian yurts. Every culture has a shack or a hut which is about this size.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:42.36,0:22:57.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The English had benders.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:57.59,0:22:58.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gang carrying the finished hexayurt
Dialogue: 0,0:22:58.92,0:23:01.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the relocatable building idea
Dialogue: 0,0:23:01.28,0:23:11.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need 18 folks all the way around.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:11.34,0:23:18.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't lift before we have 3 on each side.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:18.44,0:23:24.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Focus your lift right at the corners where the hexayurt is screwed down to the wall.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:24.46,0:23:30.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Put your hand close to the corners.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:30.38,0:23:32.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the people who are at the corners, hold by the corners --
Dialogue: 0,0:23:32.61,0:23:36.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everybody else hold by the middle.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:36.90,0:23:44.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're going to go to that no-fire sign, see it? That's 5 feet.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:44.08,0:23:54.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So at the count of 3, lift very slowly - 1, 2, 3 - and walk.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:54.74,0:23:59.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is the relocatable building thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:59.45,0:24:11.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And stop, and down. Clap! Good!
Dialogue: 0,0:24:11.06,0:24:13.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What you do is you screw some aditional bits of wood to it --
Dialogue: 0,0:24:13.89,0:24:15.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make it a frame to carry it by.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:15.89,0:24:18.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then you get 20 people to carry it on their shoulders --
Dialogue: 0,0:24:18.86,0:24:21.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you just walk somebody's house to where they are going to live in next.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:21.58,0:24:23.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That means you can build semipermanent structures --
Dialogue: 0,0:24:23.67,0:24:26.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you can still relocate if you've got to move your camps.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:26.53,0:24:28.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example in Haiti you could build hexayurts --
Dialogue: 0,0:24:28.99,0:24:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if you have to relocate 5 miles to a new centre, you can do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:33.00,0:24:40.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a slow process but you have time and lots of manual labour on hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:40.18,0:24:43.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you!
Dialogue: 0,0:24:43.36,0:24:46.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Back to parts
Dialogue: 0,0:24:46.33,0:25:14.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is just running it backwards. Nice work folks. Nice!