yurt - circular floor, conical cieling...

[frederic]

You showed me up!! I can't believe you took the time to make a classy sketch out of my 10 minute kludge. Your layout is what I would've wound up with, most likely, if I had spent more than 10 minutes thinking about it. What drawing package do you use? I only have an old version of Visio that I've mastered drawing simple lines with.

I used Visio Professional 2002, which my employer provided. Its pretty cool, all the walls, doors, et al are drag and drop. I also use it for wiring diagrams, as well as the floorplans for my studio which I posted under the "the mess" thread.

Anyway, I think this is fun and wish I had the time to do it more often. Maybe I'd actually learn what I'm doing.

That it is... though not being an expert (more of a monkey actually) i just have to add my usual disclaimers to what i post

 

[DDev]

My version of Visio Professional is 5.0a. I could probably do better drawings if I took the time to try. Mostly I do system block diagrams which are much easier to do in Visio than in AutoCAD, which my employer provides but at which I'm a complete amatuer (I actually hate it after being spoiled with the ease of use in Visio).

Darryl.....

 

[frederic]

My version of Visio Professional is 5.0a. I could probably do better drawings if I took the time to try. Mostly I do system block diagrams which are much easier to do in Visio than in AutoCAD, which my employer provides but at which I'm a complete amatuer (I actually hate it after being spoiled with the ease of use in Visio).

Darryl.....

I used to sell autocad when version 9 came out

Nothing wrong with Visio 5.0A, it doesn't have as much drag and drop stuff as the newer version, but it does have a lot of stuff for floorplans and layouts.

I dunno, I like it, saves me so much trouble since I can't even draw stick figures of my life depended on it.

I'm still trying to draw logos (though, I'm not using visio lol)

 

[Michael Jones]

Nice layout federic!
I started using Auto-Cad at version 9. The old dos based system!

The closets look kinda small, but I suppose you could have a wire rack on the walls in there to hang cables and mics and whatnot on. I don't think you could get a cabinet in them.

But its a very cool layout!

 

[frederic]

Nice layout federic!

Thanks!

I started using Auto-Cad at version 9. The old dos based system!

Thats the puppy... the particular franchise I worked for at the time (Microage) figured out how to network it over a novell lan and have true locking on the drawings. Was kinda cool to sell such a thing.

The closets look kinda small, but I suppose you could have a wire rack on the walls in there to hang cables and mics and whatnot on. I don't think you could get a cabinet in them.

Yeah, they are small - I was thinking cable hangers and guitar neck hangers. The type of things studios I've owned never seem to have enough of.

But its a very cool layout! [/B]

Thanks again!

 

[lotuscent]

Wow, I truly did not expect such a cool response to what I figured would be brushed aside in a WTF!?!?!? manner...

Anyway great stuff to chew on.

peace and thanks to all.

matt

 

[frederic]

Wow, I truly did not expect such a cool response to what I figured would be brushed aside in a WTF!?!?!? manner...

Brushed aside? You're considering a yurt. That has a cool factor of "10" even if the only gear you're putting in it is a midi kazoo

 

[lotuscent]

midi kazoo? that would be appropriate....

 

[frederic]

midi kazoo? that would be appropriate....

Actually, there is a box that was made a few years ago that you can pipe in a monophonic instrument, and it will spit out slightly delayed midi information.

Midi Kazoo - the untapped market

 

[lotuscent]

hey frederic - I printed out your floorplans and hung it on my wall to keep focused on the idea... I like it more all the time.

I gave another copy to my daughter (7) to color. She just got a new set of Pentels... told her she could do the interior... she has a great eye.

 

[lotuscent]

I think I have found it... Gonna go for the 30 foot yurt, rework the floorplans a bit... add a bathroom, figure out how to get heat and air circulation...

Thanks to all, especially for referring me to the SAE site - great stuff! Too late in the summer to start building now, but I figure once the snow melts next spring, I can do the foundation and deck/subfloor in a week. Yurt takes about 3 days to erect, put 2-3 weeks into the interior, voila!

Start moving in.

peace.
Matt

 

[frederic]

I think I have found it... Gonna go for the 30 foot yurt, rework the floorplans a bit... add a bathroom, figure out how to get heat and air circulation...

Okay Mr. Show-off, go for a bigger yurt

How about, a center column, thats fed forced air from the top of the yurt, then vented into every room? If the column has exposed surfaces in every room thats easy to do. Might be tricky to avoid soundflow from room to room, but this can be handled by multiple filters before the vents, bends and odd shapes in the ducting. Just a thought. Might be easier to run one column and put the A/C unit on the top of the yurt rather than somewhere inside, and have it resonate on the metal structure.

Thanks to all, especially for referring me to the SAE site -

http://www.johnlsayers.com is another excellent resource.

Too late in the summer to start building now, but I figure once the snow melts next spring, I can do the foundation and deck/subfloor in a week. Yurt takes about 3 days to erect, put 2-3 weeks into the interior, voila!

Why, is it about to snow in Alaska? Do you Alaskans have four distinct seasons? Never been myself. But if takes 3 days to erect, you could have it finished by next weekend! Then hammer in the interior as you have time.

Not rushing you or anything, just want to see your yurt assembly pictures

 

[lotuscent]

Why, is it about to snow in Alaska? Do you Alaskans have four distinct seasons? Never been myself. But if takes 3 days to erect, you could have it finished by next weekend! Then hammer in the interior as you have time.

Not rushing you or anything, just want to see your yurt assembly pictures

Actually, if it were the only thing I had to do, I would start today. But... I still have to finish skirting the building I am in, plus putting new vapor barriers under it and our house... we put a new foundation under our house last summer - lifted the whole thing onto cribbing, yanked out the original pilings (treated wood) and poured new concrete ones... then installed a temproary water catch system which I just finished pulling out and hooking up to the city service and redoing the plumbing...

still need to wrap a deck around it (the house is now about 3 feet higher than it used to be). I got miles to go before I sleep....

 

[John Sayers]

This friend of mine had a 9 sided building. The room at the top of the following drawing was his tiny control room and the rest was a big open studio. I redesigned it by adding two walls thus:

cheers
john

 

[lotuscent]

what do you call that, a nonogon?

 

[lotuscent]

hey John - have you checked out those new solar roofing strips? I can't remember what they are called, but I saw them in Mother Jones or somewhere like that...

Have you designed any solar power studios?

With a solar on grid system in Alaska, I bet it would generate a lot in the summer, enough to offset the bill dramatically in the winter, but I wonder about the weather resistance of these?

peace.
Matt

 

[John Sayers]

You could do it - I saw some huge setups in the top end of australia at aboriginal communities where the whole place ran off solar with diesel backup. You could easily run a studio of that.

My puter is running on solar as I type. It pulls around 8 amps at 24 volts. which is around 192 watts. I have a full sine wave inverter and my power is cool - in fact I'm my own system so there is no interference, surges, grounding probs like normal power.

If you want the math on it it goes like this.

Each panel is rated in watts , like 60 watts, at it's voltage which is around 16volts. Two panels in series produce 120 watts at 32 volts. W=A x V Therfore two 60 watt panels will produce 3.75 amps. Put into a battery for 1 hour the battery will contain 3.75 amp hours which means it will produce 3.75 amps for 1 hour or 1 amp for 3.75 hours.

As you can see you will need a big storage system that holds lotsa amp hours. You can buy 1000+ amp hour batteries which put together could easily drive a studio, but if you followed the above and worked out the power require,ments of the studio you will realise you need a lotta panels and some dirty big batteries.

cheers
john