Vinay Gupta and his friends at the
Hexayurt Project wanted to attack the problem of providing cheap easy to access shelter for crisis locations. They asked "Why not use locally accessible materials? How would we reduce waste to make it a viable solution?" They took the lowly plywood sheet and flipped it to create the Hexayurt, named after the Mongolian round tent. They tried it at
Burning Man, and then brought them to
Haiti and other places around the world. Most importantly, they used the
Open Design concept to make sure that the idea was accessible to anyone anywhere.
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