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• The QuaDror space truss geometry is a geometric form that can be used at many scales. Here, it's a base for a high-design table. Images courtesy of Studio Dror.
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• But it can also be used at large scale, as in this design for a bridge.

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Today, at the opening of the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town, South Africa, the designer Dror Benshetrit of Studio Dror unveiled QuaDror, a space truss geometry that he invented and patented. Although the words "space truss geometry" may not sound sexy at first, QuaDror's potential is impressive: its interlocking, load-bearing members function at several scales, from the small (a table base or room divider) to the large (a bridge support or structure for a house). When used in multiples, these forms are not only as stable as a solid cube (while using only 20 percent of the volume), but also have acoustical properties, as in a highway sound barrier. But the application about which Dror is most excited is that of emergency housing. The QuaDror Home is a kit that includes instructions, tools and QuaDror universal joints — to which structural members (of wood, bamboo, etc.) can be attached. Because these pieces take up so little room, Dror estimates that 1,750 of the kits can be shipped in a single 40-foot container. Small, sturdy houses can be built with whatever local materials are available, making them even more cost-effective, not to mention sustainable. The first QuaDror Home kit is just beginning production, and the studio hopes to build its first houses in Sierra Leone and Brazil next year.

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