In contemplating the pros and cons of the different hexayurt (HY) styles to use as my personal domicile on the playa I was leaning towards the stretch HY as it wasn't as large as the full size, all pieces could be made into 4 foot squares or smaller (better for shipment to the playa) and could mostly be put up by one person with one or two people helping at the couple of key points. But I was concerned about the size, since last year I had a tent that was larger than this and additional covered space for gear.

So I came up with a design that was somewhere in between the two sizes. The footprint is roughly the large hexayurt with a 4' x 13'10" rectangle removed from the center. It's biggest problem is that the center section of the roof is horizontal and I may want to make a few sheet metal tabs to make sure it stays up. While sand might accumulate on the roof, I don't think I have to worry about snow. As an aside, it's only 2 more sheets of 8x4 insulation (9 vs 7 for the stretch HY) and is almost a superset of the parts needed to make the stretch HY (it needs two more isosceles triangles, since the roof triangles on this HY are equilateral and too small).

I drew it up in google sketchup and posted the sketchup file and three images from screen capture at
xuth.net/other/hexayurt/

Does anyone see anything glaringly bad about this?

--jim