Considering building a yurt vs. tipi? Each provide a secure, low-cost shelter for camping, temporary housing, or guest quarters. Nomadic people have used portable tipis and yurts for thousands of ...

Yurts and tents, though both designed to provide portable shelter, have distinct origins and serve different purposes. Yurts, historically used by nomadic cultures in Central Asia — especially ...

Aurora, Colorado-based Freedom Yurt-Cabins offers an updated take on the millennia-old yurt. The firm's eponymous shelter is available in a number of sizes, with the smallest 217 sq ft (20 sq m ...

and that people — especially those who wish to live in simplicity — should have the opportunity to play a larger role in creating their own shelter. The yurt’s low profile and curved walls ...

Yurts, trailers, emergency shelters. Lets look at some of the alternatives for portable, movable housing that a small slice of the bailout could buy. At the most basic level, architects and ...

For a few thousand years now, yurts have been an exceptional choice for shelter. The round structures were long valued for their stability, simple assembly and portability. Such things mattered ...

That shelter could be a yurt, a lightweight home used by nomadic people in Central Asia. The East County Focus Group on Homelessness wants to install a community of yurts for single homeless ...

to operate eight year-round yurts and two cabins—quit paying its bills, forcing the agency to terminate the agreement and order the company to close its shelters and refund its reservations. Instead, ...

12-year-old Max Wallack submitted this amazing “Home Dome”—a homeless shelter made from plastic ... Based on a Mongolian yurt, it’s warm and includes a bed. The project both helps divert ...