The round wall directs wind around the structure and local people hang a heavy weight from the center of the yurt to give it resistance to the lifting force of the wind.
They are cool in the summer with the bottom edge of canvas rolled up to allow airflow. ( but also mosquitoes)and warm in the winter when a layer of thick wool felt is layered over the whole structure and covered with canvas. In the centre is a stove that can burn wood or dried animal dung.
They are very spacious.
You can tell the time by the sun shadow on the floor via the smoke hole in the centre.
BTW if you enter a yurt and in Mongolia don’t step on the door still it is rude.
If you sleep over don’t be shocked when members of the family take off clothes to change. Modesty is the responsibility of the viewer.
This reminds me of what my father - from a very rural, poor, small community - told about my grandparents and his upbringing. Tiny house, not many bedrooms but many kids (in the end 10 children), so it was common for many of the youngest ones to sleep in the same bed as my grandparents. And yet they still conceived new babies (they're all 2 or 3 years apart from each other)! Sounds a bit crazy in these modern times.
I'm sorry, one is expected to step on the door still? Here in South East Asia that'd be considered rude.
Anyway, many south-east Asia temples have the same rule - don't step on the door threshold.
[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_(architecture)
That said, many might face some challenges in doing so in a place they want to live. It's non-trivial to find a cheap piece of livable land in a city. In a more rural areas, you can expect some possible complications in things like water, electricity, and internet access.
Electricity: solar panels + batteries. You will need a lot of them if you want to run a small fridge. Forget about a gaming desktop.
Internet access: LTE via a tall antenna if you're lucky, Starlink otherwise. Add more solar panels.
You'll have to limit your diet mostly to foods that store well without a fridge. A tiny fridge can still fit the power budget.
I'd say that sewage and trash disposal are going to be bigger problems. Having a shower, too, especially in winter.
Not an actual bathtub, of course, but at least a shower and a toilet.
> Yurts take between 30 minutes and 3 hours to set up or take down, and are generally used by between five and 15 people.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzzelte_der_deutschen_Jug...
> While living in the yurt experienced 2-3 strong storms, at my site up to 120km/h I would estimate. I'm kind of a slow learner at first as I had to fix and fasten the yurt while the storm was underway as I often hoped the ropes I used were sufficient, and experienced they were not.
> It's worth noticing, the storms affects the roof mostly, no impact to the wall as I noticed, me using 90° lattice angle and bamboo, with stretching the rain wall cover below the floor and use one rope on that height, almost on the ground, all around to fasten it (as seen on a photo above already). Some people put some small laths on the floor to fixate the lattice wall on the floor, or screw the door frame on the floor, both which I didn't do.
https://simplydifferently.org/Yurt_Notes?page=6#Storm%20Prep...
Seems to be fastened somehow, but it's not specified how.
That's the bottom end of the windspeed of an F1 (weakest grade) tornado.
I have no doubt the architecture of choice of people's who lived in the steppe regions of Central Asia, a place where extreme winds are pretty common, would obviously need to be able to handle these winds but it still feels hard to believe that an amateur yurt builder could get one able to withstand a weak tornado on their first build...
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvmZ6ipVExg 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCr6TnsJ1kA
BTW, here's the process of making the whole yurt set:
> Go see Benny and the elves for some Electroluminescent wire to decorate your dome!
What. Let’s see the Photo Galleries. Ah, eight groups of photos – five from Burning Man and three from Mardi Gras. I see.
