Master's Thesis:

Out of the Box proposes a direct collaboration between the architect and the homeowner to develop radical personalizations tailored to the homeowner. The kit home becomes a base material, and is itself hacked to express individuality through suburban materiality. By specifically targeting the DIY homeowner, the act of collaboratively designing and physically making actualizes the owners claim on the home. If such partnerships can be realized at a broad level, not only can the logic of housing as equity begin to be broken down, but current homeowners can gain homes to truly call their own.