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An open letter to the organizers of OWS and the other Occupy movements:
 
Initially I was skeptical of your movement as it seemed too fleeting and disorganized to have an effect, but now that you have stuck with it and it appears you are going to continue to do so, I would like to help.
 
Bjurts are sturdy, foldable, metal yurt-like structures that have many uses, and I would like to contribute what I have to your cause. I have a 17’ wide octagonal structure with 7’ high walls and a 12’ high center. With a tarp on the top and open walls, it can provide shade, or if partially or fully walled-in (again, with tarps) it can function as a kitchen or meeting place. I can provide this structure to you (perhaps even deliver it) if it would help to serve your cause. Since I am in Southern California, this would be most useful for OccupyLA, OccupyOC, or OccupySD.
 
I also have a larger number of bjurt kits that could be used to build structures of that size or smaller (12’ wide with 5’ walls or 10’ wide with 4’ walls). I also have kits for smaller square bjurts that could be used for shower purposes. Building bjurts from these would require cutting and drilling of conduit and fashioning covers (either from tarps or cloth for lighter-duty applications). I can mail these around the country.
 
I currently have a new baby in the house, so I do not have the time or money to join your movement in person, but I do want to help in the ways that I can.
 
If you are an organizer of an Occupy movement, please contact me at bender@BjurtYurt.com so we can discuss your needs and I can do my best to accommodate you.
 
Good luck and thank you for trying to improve the world for my son and all the other children out there.
 
 -bender

What is a bjurt?

A bjurt is a structure inspired by the portable crash pad used by a dude you might have heard of named Ghengis Khan. That’s right, the yurt. Like a yurt, the bjurt is stable, roomy, and with a vaulted ceiling to allow heat to rise. It is also sturdy and withstands high desert winds.

But my man GK didn’t have tubular steel, precision manufacturing, or an unnatural obsession with geometry and symmetry. And he was far too busy enjoying the fruits of his conquest to redesign what is almost the perfect structure.

Traditional yurts have significant redundancy. This allows them to be fabricated from the irregular materials available in nature, such as branches and hides. The downside of this redundancy is that yurts require a large amount of work to create, as well as to set up and break down.

The bjurt is a design which concentrates on the primary mechanism of the yurt, the expandable latticework wall, and distills and harnesses it as the fundamental element of a structure that transforms from a bundle of poles into a self-reinforced dome-like frame.

Unlike a yurt, a bjurt is faster to set up and smaller to store. Each flat wall is made up of a single scissors-like cross piece, and the roof poles are permanently attached at the corners. The whole structure folds up like a camp chair. This makes it quite suitable as a temporary structure for extreme camping, off-road base camps, summer shade for windy back yards, and other demanding applications.