# Personalizing outdoor spaces on multi-family buildings

**Published by:** [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/)
**Published on:** 2019-08-05
**Categories:** apartment-building, architecture, awnings, balconies, condo-apartment, condominium, design, development, fujifilm, fujifilm-x-t3, housing, malaga, multi-family-building, outdoor-spaces, real-estate, shade, spain, terraces
**URL:** https://brandondonnelly.com/personalizing-outdoor-spaces-on-multi-family-buildings

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I am still making my way through (and editing) my photos from Lisbon and Malaga. Here is one that I took from the Playa de La Malagueta. I also posted it to Twitter and Instagram and asked: Should we encourage the personalization and customization of outdoor spaces on multi-family buildings? This building overlooks the beach and the Alboran Sea. If you look closely, you'll see that a number of the balconies have been modified to include different kinds of awnings and shade structures. And some look to have been converted to interior space. A few of you seem to support this level of customization, provided that the overall design integrity of the building is maintained. And I would agree that in this particular instance, it seems to work, which is actually why I took the photo. It gives the facade life. I recall seeing instances of this in Toronto, but generally speaking it's not encouraged or allowed. In condominiums, outdoor spaces attached to units are typically defined as "exclusive-use common elements." The challenge, here, lies in the subjectivity of "maintaining the overall design intent of the building." I'm not sure how you codify that, unless you pre-design the options. Perhaps that's one way of doing it.

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