Traditionally, yurts were portable structures, with fabric walls. Their unique architectural feature is a central ring on a cone-shaped roof, which makes internal support systems unnecessary.

YEARNING FOR YURTS / Ancient architectural form is portable, cheap, efficient and environmentally sound. By Diana Kapp, ... the largest manufacturer of lattice-wall yurts.

A yurt in Big Sur National Park offers an ocean view. (Photo: emdot/flickr) Traditional yurts are made with wooden slat lattice walls supporting sapling beams held together at the top by a wooden ...

Furniture construction is simplified if the yurt wall is used as support. In addition, built-in items are easier to make, less costly and stronger than their free-standing counterparts.

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 ...

Freedom Yurt Cabins tweeks the design of a traditional Mongolian yurt to make it more appropriate for its American context. ... From a 12-wall cabin to a 16-wall cabin, ...

This includes rafters, lattice walls and the dome, which is the main center point of the yurt and brings in sunlight. While this work is being done, Great Lakes Yurt Co. has a team in Jackson ...

If you answered "Yurt" , you are correct! ... Yurts have taken the high-tech route and made their modern yurts from Douglas fir latticed frames, covered by vinyl walls and ceilings.

A snowman created by visitors stands outside the Jon Wilson Yurt near Lake City. The yurt is a great getaway for families and first-time backcountry trekkers because it is easy to reach and there ...

Inside the remaining yurt, the walls are lined with shelves of books, educational posters of the multiplication table and a dry erase board. The cohort of 10 kids sat at tables busy working on ...

1 This February 1 photo shows Kazakh volunteers carrying a "tunduk," the central portal of a yurt, towards a truck being filled with supplies for Ukraine. The men are preparing the aid shipment in ...