This thesis explores the imperative of spatial agency in the context of affordable housing
within a capitalist free-market economy and an age in which agency has been stripped
from the architect and inhabitant alike. It defines the concepts of spatial agency of both
the architect and inhabitant as well as the means to achieve this, namely prefabrication
and adaptability as frameworks within the social sciences and architectural discourse.
These definitions will then be further evaluated via their practical applications in several
case studies dated between 1936 and the present. Ultimately, a flexible and low-impact
solution will be implemented into the design of off-site housing units for the Roden Crater
housing project as well as one possible solution to affordable housing crises in an effort
to utilize the once profit-driven means of prefabrication towards a more socialist end.