Yurt Without Steel

Step 6 Wall Lattice Edges

The outer edges of the lattice are truncated, assembled from shorter sticks. It's a bit difficult to figure out. To avoid thinking I planned to make my lattice "infinitely long" and then cut it down at the sides. But that would have wasted many sticks.

The outer edges of the lattice fall on crossings 2,4, and 6. The two outer edges are mirror images of each other.

I thought maybe I'd make three more of these wall sections and stack them horizontally and vertically to make a big yurt. Some Afghani yurts are made that way.

Comments

[openperspective]

when you talk about making multiple wall sections and "stacking" them, do you mean you could add another piece of wall to give it more internal area? i was thinking of something like this, but the logistics of changing roof size befuddles me

[TimAnderson]

Yes. If you had four of these wall sections, you could stack them vertically and horizontally. The resulting yurt would have twice the height at the eaves and twice the circumference. It would need either much longer rafter poles or a very large smoke ring.