20'-10'-20' Connected Family Yurt

[bss]

Looking good steve! I would be interested in hearing more about the interconnect, roofing, etc. - all of it, really. Please post a few photos of it if you have them. I would be very interested to see how it all works. I have a few ideas for my own project here, but seeing something actually functioning in 3-d would help me refine them a little.

Nice work.

Are the floor joists are built this way to accommodate the hydronics?

[Surely Yurts - Steve]

No hydronic lines for radiant floor

heating

in this yurt, though it would be nice .

This is the floor joist layout that I always use when building a circular platform. I have built the yurt platforms many many different ways this method is the easiest, most efficient, and most sturdy of any I've personally used up to this point.

I'm not interested in digging and find it unnecessary for yurt construction. Everything is floating, each post sets on a flat natural stone and then a form goes around the base of each post for 25-40 lbs. of concrete to hold it in place. We don't pierce the ground when we build our platforms (sorry C.E.O.'s). Frost heave not so much of an issue for yurts as it is for other traditional building mediums. I've found, the yurt grooves with the changes and corrects/levels itself. If the heaves got too bad over time, one could always get under the floor, jack it up, and put in a new post or two for leveling corrections. Anything with sheetrock, mortar, or seams of any kind would shift/widen/crack from the frost heave but that does not worry me with the lattice yurt.

I've added some interior pics to get a better look at the gable design.

-Cheers!