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Canvas Yurts in Ardeche, France


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One of the first yurt camps in France is called Canvaschic.

It is located in the Gorges de L’Ardeche nature reserve.

Their mission?

To provide a relaxing environment to their visitors while preserving the spirit of nature.

Each yurt in the camp has a king sized bed and two beds for children.

Each one is individually styled.

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For more pictures, rates, and information visit CanvasChic.

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  • tinyhousetalk
    June 29, 2010, 10:56 am

    I wish I knew more about the first picture (yurt with second story)

  • Afouch
    July 5, 2010, 6:55 pm

    The first photo is great, I would love to see the inside of the 2 story yurt!!!

  • Afouch
    July 6, 2010, 12:55 am

    The first photo is great, I would love to see the inside of the 2 story yurt!!!

  • ASCII
    April 16, 2015, 8:39 pm

    The two story yurt is really neat… is it just a bottom yurt with a super-wide roof-ring as the base/floor of the second-story yurt?

    * The upper yurt looks like it’s about 12′ – a floor that spans that safely might be fairly heavy. Especially since it’s presumably going to support a big bed, some people, and a bit of other furniture.
    * Since the lower-yurt’s rafters are short, spaced tightly together, & at a fairly steep angle (~60º?) they should support the weight fairly well. A larger upper-yurt is actually beneficial in increasing the rafters’ angle so the weight is more on the rafters’ length than their height.
    * The tension-cable is steel wire, so you can buy that arbitrarily strong.
    * The lattice can be made of beefy-sized wood – since a roof-ring that size isn’t going to be transported anyway, the weight of the lattice doesn’t matter much.

    …now I want to build one. I can have public space on the ground-floor and a fold-up ladder or stairs to get into the bedroom upstairs… and I guess a crane to put in the upper-yurt’s furniture during construction.

    I would like to echo the other commenters’ requests for more pictures of the *ahem* yurt on yurt action.

  • ASCII
    April 16, 2015, 8:56 pm

    Turns out I should have spent another 20 minutes Googling before I posted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Uc7VM607c shows the construction of the 1st yurt pictured.

    They cheated and build a platform for the upper-story that has a bunch of support-polls. Then build a larger yurt around that. So the bottom-yurt has a dozen telephone-poll-sized-supports in a circle right in the middle of it.

    In my opinion, that’s ill-conceived. The main thing I like about my yurt is that it’s a portable living room. Putting that many support-pillars in the middle of the room makes it into a partially-divided set of rooms: the inner room & the doughnut room. It ruins the open-air aesthetic and isn’t conducive to the kind of party I like to have in my yurt.

    Anyone wishing to implement my hypothesized construction technique from the previous post should consult with a civil engineer to insure you choose appropriate materials & spacing for the rafters & lattice to bear the load, especially given possible wind & snow conditions.

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