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0 pointspbhjpbhj8y ago0 comments

FWIW it also says the "temporary shelter" produced by the organisation Better Shelter is intended to last 3 years (product page).

The Yurt seems to have been doing well, it's close to a raised dome, has replaceable modular construction, is easy to erect and move, has been tested for centuries (millennia?) in some of the harshest climate on the planet, namely the Mongolian steppe. In UK a few people use them as permanent homes.

They won't fit well in a rectangular road grid (unless you want to use the margins to provide outdoor space, eg for growing), but would pack in to a tri-/hex-grid.

Of course bugs might get in, just like a house in a Western city, seems a strange objection? Do you live in a cleanroom?

0 pointspbhjpbhj8y ago0 comments

FWIW it also says the "temporary shelter" produced by the organisation Better Shelter is intended to last 3 years (product page).

They won't fit well in a rectangular road grid (unless you want to use the margins to provide outdoor space, eg for growing), but would pack in to a tri-/hex-grid.

Of course bugs might get in, just like a house in a Western city, seems a strange objection? Do you live in a cleanroom?

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pamqzl8y ago· 4 in thread

I can buy a metal garden shed for a couple of hundred bucks, assemble it myself, and it'll stand for decades without needing much if any maintenance. I could get one with a window, and a door that locks.

It wouldn't give me any Whole Foods cred like a dome or a yurt, but aside from that issue it seems more practical than either of those, if I wanted to live in one small and poorly insulated room without plumbing.

I've just looked at the Better Shelter page and it seems that their idea is the same as mine -- a metal shed.

AlotOfReading8y ago

Gers/Yurts aren't poorly insulated. They're actually a bit over-insulated for most places. You could easily add locking doors or plumbing (I've seen both in Mongolian gers), but the real design advantages are the portability and wind load factors.

pbhjpbhjOP8y ago

There's looks like a good shed, extendible, more insulated than sheet metal.

The metal shed you get now, is likely to be designed to break and be hard to repair, 10 years ago its predecessor was probably much better.

At least their shed is designed with repairability in mind.

erikpukinskis8y ago

> I could get one with a window, and a door that locks.

For a couple hundred bucks?

pamqzl8y ago

Well, okay, closest I could find was this $279 one with a lockable door but no window, but I haven't looked all that hard.

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