The interior in action.

The Bandshell in action.

On the domestic scale, QuaDror not only provides the structural integrity of the home, but adds quite a bit of visual interest to the interior.

When the installation is up at imm Cologne, actors using tools, cooking and casually playing music will circulate through the space to emphasize the ambiance of Campbell’s Das Haus vision. “They will make noises and smells, and remind us that in the 21st century we are revising the idea of organization: organized love, organized relationships and the organized rigid interior habits that keep us from an exploration of what lays beyond.” Namely: voluptuousness and the DIY know-how essential for preservation beyond cyberspace.

Wee Approve Inflate the scale of the support trestles, add floors and ceilings, and you have the core of the QuaDror prefab house. The QD 01-06 dwellings, created in partnership with Minnesota prefab outfit weeHouse, range from 900 to 3,000 square feet—“single and double story, and two versions that are elevated off the ground, which is beneficial for certain climates,” Benshetrit says. As with the trestles, the QD interlocking frame modules, constructed from eight beams, are shipped flat and set up onsite. “The whole house shouldn’t take more than a few days to assemble,” the designer says. “It’s really and truly a kit—a lucid system that results in a product you park on your land.” QD 01-06 houses will be available this spring.

Close down the accordion-like Honeycomb lamp and you're left with a small stack of QuaDror connectors. Lift it up again and the cube comes back to life.

Essentially the same as the trestle desk, here the QuaDror joints are blown up to a massive scale and used to support a bridge.

Here's a close-up of the unraveling in action.

Another look at the Soft Architecture in action.

Action Office II by Robert Propst for Herman Miller This revolutionary design advanced a utopian idea that you could somehow have the ability to shape your space. It was called the “workstation” for the “human performer.” Photo by Herman Miller.

Baldwin Hills,modern colorful office

Here they are after a little D.I.Y. action.

The artist in action with his airbrush gun and silver jumpsuit.

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The kitchen in action!

Plenty of opportunities for action await—including this custom skate ramp.

A built-in window seat across from the kitchen gives guests a spot to sit close to the cooking action.

The architects made sure to use wide windows, so that the view is never far away from the action.

Narrow glass doors from Egypt frame the kitchen of Dóttir, giving guests a window on the action.

Director Craig Brooks gets in the brush to capture close-up action of site preparation work for the Maxon House documentary.

Shipping the goods necessary for putting up QuaDror disaster relief shelters is incredibly easy, especially since the L-brackets can be combined with local materials to form the structures' frames.

Monolithic expanses frame captivating views. Perched high in the sky, the Midtown Manhattan location ensures the home's new owners are not far from the city's action.

Impoverished townships line the highway between Cape Town's airport and the sleek convention center where Benshetrit first presented QuaDror. "If you're looking at the third world, and after a disaster in particular, one of the things available are materials. Improvisation exists the most in these places. If you can give them instruments versus a defined product, a tool, they have a better chance to use it in an innovative way." QuaDror’s collapsibility lends itself to economical transportation. He says that 1750 housing relief kits can fit in a shipping container, and rounded out with local materials on arrival. "I never intended to come up with disaster relief," says Benshetrit. "It wasn't the goal. It just kind of happens that it lends itself to that."

Unlike your typical sawhorse desk, which often comprises a pair of struts and a board as the desktop, the QuaDror system can support a much sleeker aesthetic.

Here's Phillipe Starck's Dr. Skud fly swatter. Nice enough, but I'm far more into the leather action at Lehman's.

Part of QuaDror's appeal is its ability to divide indoor and outdoor spaces. It claims the solidity of a solid cube at just 20% of the volume. The other volume, noise, is managed by its acoustic properties.

"A lot of people say less is more," says QuaDror inventor Dror Benshetrit. "I completely disagree. Less is less, more is more. Sometimes less is better, but it's not more."

Tools for Actions: Pink Puffs Roll Instant Playground by Berlin-based landscape architecture firm Topotek 1. Photograph by Hans Joosten.

Bec Brittain presented her new SHY Floor lamp (left) and Dror Benshetrit his 3D printed QuaDror light (right), which folds flat and is currently on exhibition at Material ConneXion in New York.

Joshua shared a video of his closet in action on TikTok in December that has amassed more than 410,000 views. He admits that the closet "isn’t the easiest to use, but it’s the most practical" for his tiny room.

With windows facing the lake, Donna and Oliver have a front-row seat to the action every day. "It’s water that you just want to look at every day because even though it's a vast plane it changes all the time," says Lolley.

Shine a Light Benshetrit’s table lamp, for the lighting and furniture company .MGX by Materialise uses QuaDror’s infinitely scalable geometry to create a honeycomb of 1,200 modules that fits over a metal base holding a 40-watt halogen bulb. The lamp, which arrives flat and expands, accordion-like, when lifted, is manufactured via selective laser sintering (SLS), a 3-D printing process that uses a laser to solidify layer upon layer of powdered resin particles. “When you buy the lamp, you get a disc with the file on it, so if it breaks, you can ‘reprint’ it,” Benshetrit says.

The sling in action. Lotta used hers for trays in Handmade Modern, but I've found that it's perfect for an easy-to-reach bedside book holder.

The National Association of Realtors has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit involving a group of Missouri homeowners that claim the organization was price-fixing.

It's been four years since the idea for QuaDror surfaced. "Every single day I came to the office writing a few more applications," says Benshetrit. "It can support a roof, a table, a bridge. The list just didn't stop."

The garden room has a built-in bench and free-standing fireplace. This area works as overflow for the adjacent kitchen, which allows people to see the cook in action, yet still lounge. The living room is a bit more removed, located just two concrete steps away.