Kyle Sturgeon (BSArch’05) stands in the second floor of the OUTin house, the newest addition to 7th Street in Charlottesville’s Fifeville neighborhood. “The light in here is great. You plan for these things, but this is amazing.” The planning and design of the house is the result of a collaboration between students in architecture, landscape architecture and planning. The brainchild of John Quale, Assistant Professor of Architecture, ecoMOD is a research and design/build project organized as a series of four design studios intended to produce an ecological, modular and affordable housing system using sustainable and passive design strategies.