Gobi Desert in Inner Mongolia, China

Gobi Desert is the 4th largest desert in the world, the largest in Asia. It locates in the north of the Inner Mongolia in China. It has several parts of steppes which people can build villages, and shepherds can stop for a rest, and sell and buy stuffs.The main transport media in the desert is camels, jaks are used to carry goods.

The climate in Inner Mongolia is monsoon climate because of its elongated shape and plateau location. The winters are very long, cold and dry with frequent blizzards, but spring, summer and autumn are short, extremely hot and arid with dangerous sandstorms.

Mongolian Yurt

The Mongolian yurt is the home of the shepherds who live on the desert. The shepherds always travel across the desert and the steppe, so their yurts will travel will them, this leads the yurts to be very easy to be constructed and deassembled, it takes about 2 hours to construct one yurt, and they can be carried by camels or jaks.

This is the structural system of the yurt. It is a circular wooden frame. But instead of columns to support the walls, they use lattice wall frames, and the column is used in the middle of the yurt to support the whole thing.

Adding a layer of felt above the lattice frame.

 

Adding the outer cover above the felt layer.

The inside of the yurts in Central Asia.

The interior of the western yurts.

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