Development plan/restrictions – none relevant to us
Plot size – approx. 900m² (9700 sq ft)
Slope – yes
Site coverage ratio – see attachment
Floor area ratio – see attachment
Building envelope, setback line and boundary – see attachment
Edge development – see attachment
Number of parking spaces – see attachment
Number of storeys – see attachment
Roof type – see attachment
Architectural style – see attachment
Orientation – see attachment
Maximum heights/limits – see attachment
Other requirements
For your information:
The plot is located in the second row. Plot 68 is many meters above ours (196).
Direct neighbors are plots 62 and 197.
Access is via plots 192/195 as shown below.
Here is the neighboring development
Client requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type – villa style
Basement, storeys – no basement, 2 full storeys
Number of occupants, ages – 4 persons, 2 adults, 2 children aged 1 and 3 years
Space requirements on ground and upper floors – total approx. 150-160 m² (1600-1700 sq ft)
Office: family use or home office? – family use
Guest sleepers per year – 10 to 20
Open or closed architecture – not too open, but not too closed either
Conservative or modern design – rather conservative
Open kitchen, island – kitchen and dining room combined as one open space
Number of dining seats – 10
Fireplace – yes
Music/stereo wall – yes
Balcony, roof terrace – no
Garage, carport – garage
Utility garden, greenhouse – no priority, will come later
further wishes/special features/daily routine, including reasons why certain things are desired or avoided
House design
Designed by:
- architect
What do you particularly like? Why?
- At first glance, all room requirements are met
- Open entrance area
- Transition between utility rooms and living spaces
What do you not like? Why?
- Living room in current form, as there is no stereo wall
- Children’s rooms possibly too small due to open space above (wasted space?)
Built-in wardrobe in children’s room 1 possibly to be moved towards the open space and children’s room 2 made square
- Master bedroom is narrow and corridor-like
- Connecting dressing room/bathroom can be removed as unnecessary, allowing more space for wardrobes
- Pantry should be removed in favor of more cabinets, which seems more practical
Price estimate according to architect/planner: no information yet
Personal price limit for the house, including fittings: no price idea yet
Preferred heating technology: geothermal heat pump
If you have to give up something, which details/extensions
- can you give up: fireplace, open space above
- cannot give up: garage, utility rooms as no basement
Why is the design as it is? For example,
Standard draft from planner?
- After first conversation and written wishes
Which requests were implemented by the architect?
A mix of many examples from various magazines...
- Basically all our wishes, just not yet in the optimal final form
What makes it, in your opinion, especially good or bad?
- Individual character
- Large kitchen/dining room as the most used rooms in the house
So now on to the drawings:
Plot size – approx. 900m² (9700 sq ft)
Slope – yes
Site coverage ratio – see attachment
Floor area ratio – see attachment
Building envelope, setback line and boundary – see attachment
Edge development – see attachment
Number of parking spaces – see attachment
Number of storeys – see attachment
Roof type – see attachment
Architectural style – see attachment
Orientation – see attachment
Maximum heights/limits – see attachment
Other requirements
For your information:
The plot is located in the second row. Plot 68 is many meters above ours (196).
Direct neighbors are plots 62 and 197.
Access is via plots 192/195 as shown below.
Here is the neighboring development
Client requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type – villa style
Basement, storeys – no basement, 2 full storeys
Number of occupants, ages – 4 persons, 2 adults, 2 children aged 1 and 3 years
Space requirements on ground and upper floors – total approx. 150-160 m² (1600-1700 sq ft)
Office: family use or home office? – family use
Guest sleepers per year – 10 to 20
Open or closed architecture – not too open, but not too closed either
Conservative or modern design – rather conservative
Open kitchen, island – kitchen and dining room combined as one open space
Number of dining seats – 10
Fireplace – yes
Music/stereo wall – yes
Balcony, roof terrace – no
Garage, carport – garage
Utility garden, greenhouse – no priority, will come later
further wishes/special features/daily routine, including reasons why certain things are desired or avoided
House design
Designed by:
- architect
What do you particularly like? Why?
- At first glance, all room requirements are met
- Open entrance area
- Transition between utility rooms and living spaces
What do you not like? Why?
- Living room in current form, as there is no stereo wall
- Children’s rooms possibly too small due to open space above (wasted space?)
Built-in wardrobe in children’s room 1 possibly to be moved towards the open space and children’s room 2 made square
- Master bedroom is narrow and corridor-like
- Connecting dressing room/bathroom can be removed as unnecessary, allowing more space for wardrobes
- Pantry should be removed in favor of more cabinets, which seems more practical
Price estimate according to architect/planner: no information yet
Personal price limit for the house, including fittings: no price idea yet
Preferred heating technology: geothermal heat pump
If you have to give up something, which details/extensions
- can you give up: fireplace, open space above
- cannot give up: garage, utility rooms as no basement
Why is the design as it is? For example,
Standard draft from planner?
- After first conversation and written wishes
Which requests were implemented by the architect?
A mix of many examples from various magazines...
- Basically all our wishes, just not yet in the optimal final form
What makes it, in your opinion, especially good or bad?
- Individual character
- Large kitchen/dining room as the most used rooms in the house
So now on to the drawings:
Okay, here are some additional observations:
- The interior walls won’t fit as planned; the standard dimensions look quite narrow.
- The sloping walls at the bottom: what’s their purpose? I would modify the design to remove them.
- No access from the kitchen to the dining area?
- What is the purpose of the passageway to the garage? What benefit does it provide?
- In my opinion, the staircase doesn’t suit a house of this size.
- I consider the master bedroom to be unfurnished. Placing the bed under the window is generally a no-go, and there seems to be hardly any space for a wardrobe.
- Upstairs, there are again these strange sloping walls. It looks like the rooms were shoehorned in without proper planning.
- The interior walls won’t fit as planned; the standard dimensions look quite narrow.
- The sloping walls at the bottom: what’s their purpose? I would modify the design to remove them.
- No access from the kitchen to the dining area?
- What is the purpose of the passageway to the garage? What benefit does it provide?
- In my opinion, the staircase doesn’t suit a house of this size.
- I consider the master bedroom to be unfurnished. Placing the bed under the window is generally a no-go, and there seems to be hardly any space for a wardrobe.
- Upstairs, there are again these strange sloping walls. It looks like the rooms were shoehorned in without proper planning.
Kwonni schrieb:
We almost exactly followed the design of an existing show home from a major builder in the Ruhr region. Why not share the name and model? Maybe together we can come up with an even smarter approach based on it...
ypg schrieb:
And why is the cloakroom designed in a way that contaminates the whole hallway with dirt? This is probably like the “pantry” issue (in the HansHaus thread), a matter of perspective with two opinions: I see the cloakroom as a storage space for coats, shoes, and bags, and I use boot scrapers and doormats; but of course, you can also see the cloakroom as a transition area between muddy boots and slippers, and if people walk through with dirty shoes up to that point, then this stopover obviously needs to be located as close as possible to the front door.
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11ant schrieb:
I see in the hallway a storage area for coats, shoes, and bags, and I use shoe scrapers and floor mats;I'm still missing hats from the list
That might work for you, but not with four kids running around.
And honestly, with proper planning you can drop off your things right at the entrance: why have a hallway storage area that looks messy every day or where coats pile up because you might have more than one? Where do you actually go then? To the door or to the coat closet? I want to see all my coats at once!... and the shoes too... as well as my scarves, and for many women there are endless handbags (which for kids probably translates to gloves, scarves, and sports bags).
The model is based on the Viebrockhaus Maxime 700 in Kaarst.
It includes a storage room, which we have converted into a cloakroom.
We want a shower on the ground floor and have therefore made the compromise to move the cloakroom one room further. We don’t need a storage room in this form either.
The external dimensions are exactly the same as on this floor plan.
Unlike the catalog floor plan of the Maxime 700, the house in Kaarst has a U-shaped staircase, meaning two 90° turns. This can only be seen by taking the virtual tour. Then the floor plan changes to the actual one as it exists on site.
This does not look right in the image of our "drawing" and appears too short.
I based it on the dimensions from the staircase template here and even extended them slightly.
It includes a storage room, which we have converted into a cloakroom.
We want a shower on the ground floor and have therefore made the compromise to move the cloakroom one room further. We don’t need a storage room in this form either.
The external dimensions are exactly the same as on this floor plan.
Unlike the catalog floor plan of the Maxime 700, the house in Kaarst has a U-shaped staircase, meaning two 90° turns. This can only be seen by taking the virtual tour. Then the floor plan changes to the actual one as it exists on site.
This does not look right in the image of our "drawing" and appears too short.
I based it on the dimensions from the staircase template here and even extended them slightly.
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