The urge for affordable housing is increasing worldwide. Kosovo just recently is developing policies for dealing with affordable housing as opposed to social housing, which notions are still confused with one another. Yet, as municipal and governmental subsidiary programs will provide a financial framework for affordability, architects and engineers have to challenge the current design and construction cultures in order to decrease the design and construction cost and provide not just shelter but values through flexibility for future use and sustainable design and development for families, communities, and the planet. Through the case studies of implementing pre-fab modular design and construction systems, this paper explores and reveals the affordability and flexibility potentials of these systems as opposed to the current design and construction cultures. By using CLT and GLT in hybrid construction systems, the new tectonics reveals the integration of the ‘3 E‵s’ of sustainable design; ecology, economy, and equity as the urging paradigms for making architecture not just ecologically and economically sound for a group of people but for the whole population through equity
