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Miguel Marcelino, Odivelas apartment, Portugal, 2017. Courtesy Archive Miguel Marcelino
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Miguel Marcelino, Odivelas apartment, Portugal, 2017. Courtesy Archive Miguel Marcelino
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Miguel Marcelino, Odivelas apartment, Portugal, 2017. Courtesy Archive Miguel Marcelino
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Miguel Marcelino, Odivelas apartment, Portugal, 2017. Courtesy Archive Miguel Marcelino
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Miguel Marcelino, Odivelas apartment, Portugal, 2017. Courtesy Archive Miguel Marcelino
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Miguel Marcelino, Odivelas apartment, Portugal, 2017. Courtesy Archive Miguel Marcelino
The usual problems of apartments and houses in this area include thermal discomfort, over-partitioned spaces, wasted areas lost to the exclusive use of corridors, balconies facing north, undersized and underlit living-rooms, enclosed balconies used as storage rooms, small bathrooms crammed with appliances, as well as a considerable amount of noise caused by plastic lids, junction boxes, cable conduits, siphons, in addition to the usual protrusions of pillars and beams. A real nightmare.
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Miguel Marcelino, Odivelas apartment, Portugal, 2017. Courtesy Archive Miguel Marcelino
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Miguel Marcelino, Odivelas apartment, Portugal, 2017. Courtesy Archive Miguel Marcelino
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Miguel Marcelino, Odivelas apartment, Portugal, 2017. Courtesy Archive Miguel Marcelino
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Miguel Marcelino, Odivelas apartment, Portugal, 2017. Courtesy Archive Miguel Marcelino
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Miguel Marcelino, Odivelas apartment, Portugal, 2017. Courtesy Archive Miguel Marcelino
Odivelas apartment, Odivelas, Portugal
Program: apartment
Architect: Miguel Marcelino
Collaborator: Débora Martins
General contractor: Vassalo & Sousa
Area: 86 sqm
Completion: 2017