The construction low cost responds to a difficult period of access to housing. There are wooden, prefabricated houses and repurposed spaces. There are those who live in garages, with good conditions (and good rents), but there are those who live in T0 or shared houses.
They have “automatic authorization, without the need to review land use plans or housing licenses, provided that at controlled costs“, as provided for in the Mais Habitação (MH) program.
The program foresees the “reconversion of properties for residential use through a simplified alteration procedure”, says .
There are those who reconvert spaces reserved for commerce, for example, but also garages and attics They are favorite places for those who want to save on rent (for example, an attic similar to a “studio”, ranging from €280 to €600).
“Warehouses, garages, shops that support the need to take advantage of and transform existing spaces, changing their use, which contributes to greater sustainability of buildings”, says the architect Catarina Silvado atelier Art Fusion.
Os warehouses have “enormous possibilitieswith high ceilings, a structure that facilitates design and construction and can be easily transformed into housing,” he says. Joana Pintodo atelier Studioarte.
An Expresso search found warehouses for sale by values between 29 thousand euros and 240 thousand euros, “with potential to be transformed into housing”.
With “materials, labor, equipment and some costs, the transformation of a warehouse into housing varies between 800 and 1200 euros”, reports Antonio Abrantes, contractor, who thinks it “pays” to invest in this property format.
But these efforts are not enough to respond to the housing crisis, and there are even those who are dividing apartments into two… or three.
João de Sousa Rodolfo, architect, says that “the redesign of the interior, in very compartmentalized houses, with unhealthy spaces without minimum dimensions and which allow reducing typologiesfor T1 and T2″.
In this case, the apartments can be compartmentalized, and a single house can be shared by more than one family, as if they were separate houses.
The architect admits that This “trend allows us to overcome the lack of urban space buildable, aggregate supply on the market and increase fractions per property”.
“In a six-story building, three 3-bedroom apartments can be placed per floor, or six studio apartments,” he says. Jorge Rodriguesadministrator of Prummo, so the construction sector itself is also investing in creating increasingly smaller fires. These are the calls “mini-houses”.
Many apartments, less than 30m2 “are sought as income, for students or people who cannot afford the amount of the house they need”. Still, a rent in a space of this type can cost around €450.
There is also a solution to wooden housesor prefabricated, where the cost per m2 around a thousand euros. They can be built in about 3 days.
“Industrialization can overcome the lack of supply with houses produced through prefabrication and capable of stimulating the modernization of the construction sector”, concludes the architect Samuel Gonçalves.
