Custom Designs: Single Story Yurt with Ranch Wings

The yurt greatroom concept with conventional add-ons!

Ranch Style Wings: This design style has the same concept as our regular wings but is based on the fact that everyone may not want a home that is entirely ROUND. With this style the great room is just that - our wonderful and inviting central round space that creates a glorious central living and socializing space. One whose warm vaulted ceilings and central round skylight creates a truly GREAT room.

But once that impact has been achieved and the more utilitarian spaces such as bedrooms, bathrooms and utility rooms need to be created, some folks feel that the way they live and the furniture they intend to have will all be more practically served within more rectilinear rooms. This then is the perfect melding of impressive and striking round spaces and simpler more functional square spaces.

With the ability to extend these rectilinear wings indefinitely they potentially have more flexibility than the trapezoidal-shaped wings and they can even be built long enough to incorporate standard garages and the like.

Another desirable design element of this style of wing is that whereas you will have to build you main room yurt with taller walls to give you adequate headroom with the surrounding trapezoidal wings, the height of the central structure has no bearing on the required height when you use these ranch wings. Giving you a little more design freedom in the total design.

The only downside (other than not being round - and you know we are biased) to the ranch wings is that even though we can prefabricate the ranch wing floors and walls in their entirety, we can only prefab the rectangular areas of the roof. What that means is that there will be a portion of the ranch wing roof that will sit over the existing yurt roof (over-framing we call it). This over-framing will have to all be built from scratch on site after the setup is complete. This is a challenging job, even for the most accomplished carpenters and usually is not done by us or our setup crew. This added difficulty and the slowness with which it is accomplished becomes a cost disadvantage compared to the speed of setup and the cost-effectiveness of prefab. Not a reason to invalidate this design style but something to be considered as you plan out your entire process and project.

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