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November 8: To add momentary beauty to an Ed School lot eventually destined to be filled by a $6 million library, an Ed School student built a wooden Mongol structure called a "yurt." He taught classes in crates inside and said he had lived in yurts before...
Coperthwaite built yurts earlier in California, Maine, and Alaska, and is now living in a yurt he built in Westwood. One of his students built one at Cornell and lived in it for four years...
Coperthwaite tries to simplify the technique of yurt-construction continually, with the goal of making it possible for anyone to build...
Since the yurt sits on a foundation of stakes, it could be moved at that time a suitable location can be found...
Four skilled workers can put up a yurt like Harvard's in two days, Coperthwaite said. Power tools were used only in cutting boards for the roof. "It's the cheapest way to cover this area of land permanently," he said...