Harry's Yurt

So this was to be the teaching space for this year's permaculture course at Chickenshack. We were lucky enough to come across Harry, who had a lovely Yurt for hire, that he had actually started building at school, as a project, and had finished making it after with his Dad.

Its a lovely design for a temporary building and so it turned out a lovely space for teaching, or just thinking in. some thing magical about round spaces, and of course with a group you can all see each other equally, no one at the front or back. Further more as we were sat around the perimeter looking inwards, with no windows out, it is a very focussed thinking space. This one is a 18 foot diameter space, and can sit 16 people comfortably on chairs around the outside looking in

It made me think that perhaps we could with something more permanent like this for ourselves here. A good neutral and creative space for meetings and planning. Anyway, so the fist pic is of the wheel, which forms the hub of the roof of the structure, with ribs radiating outwards to form a sort domed roof. This is made from Ash poles mainly, which have been steam bent over a fire. The proposition is that we hold some yurt making workshops here in the autumn, then the coppice season is upon is again.