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While privacy is often treated as a subjective or cultural concern, this research adopts a spatial perspective to examine its morphological underpinnings. Using space syntax methods, the study analyses contemporary shared housing models, focusing on three shared housing developments in Barcelona. Through Visual Graph Analysis (VGA), spatial parameters, including integration, through vision, control, and controllability values, are applied to assess the degree of accessibility, visibility, and spatial separation within and between private and communal areas. The results reveal distinct configurational patterns that correlate with different privacy gradients, identifying how spatial arrangement enables or restricts autonomy and co-presence among residents. The study concludes that privacy in shared housing is not only a matter of design intention but is embedded in the spatial logic of dwelling morphology: exposed and controlled spaces provide less privacy but enhance sociability, while spatial elements such as boundaries and transitions play an important role in managing privacy gradation and degrees. 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