ᐅ Floor plan design for a hillside house with 5 children's bedrooms
Created on: 17 Jun 2017 12:31
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Arifas
Dear fellow contributors,
I’m sharing our first attempt at the floor plan. Unfortunately, I can’t fill out the list because copying it over on my phone doesn’t work properly, sorry.
Key data:
5 children between 0 and 11 years old
2 adults in their mid-thirties
Plot of about 900 sqm (9700 sq ft), facing north
Building window edge on the street side: 17.35 m (57 ft)
Sloped site; within the building window, the ground rises about 2 m (7 ft) over 10 m (33 ft) from front to back
We want 5 small children’s bedrooms, a slightly larger office for working from home, a master bedroom, three showers, three toilets, a bathtub, and access to the garden through the living room on the upper floor. One wall in the children’s rooms should be removable later.
The attic is walkable.
We are allowed to build 2 full stories, with a ridge height of about 12 m (39 ft) and an eave height of 11.6 m (38 ft).
We would prefer a hip roof.
The current drawing is 9.5 by 11 m (31 by 36 ft), but we would like to have around 195 to 205 sqm (2100 to 2200 sq ft) of living space later; garage or storage will be added.
The back wall of the house is embedded up to about 2 m (7 ft) into the slope.
I will try to attach a rough overview of the plot.
I’m sharing our first attempt at the floor plan. Unfortunately, I can’t fill out the list because copying it over on my phone doesn’t work properly, sorry.
Key data:
5 children between 0 and 11 years old
2 adults in their mid-thirties
Plot of about 900 sqm (9700 sq ft), facing north
Building window edge on the street side: 17.35 m (57 ft)
Sloped site; within the building window, the ground rises about 2 m (7 ft) over 10 m (33 ft) from front to back
We want 5 small children’s bedrooms, a slightly larger office for working from home, a master bedroom, three showers, three toilets, a bathtub, and access to the garden through the living room on the upper floor. One wall in the children’s rooms should be removable later.
The attic is walkable.
We are allowed to build 2 full stories, with a ridge height of about 12 m (39 ft) and an eave height of 11.6 m (38 ft).
We would prefer a hip roof.
The current drawing is 9.5 by 11 m (31 by 36 ft), but we would like to have around 195 to 205 sqm (2100 to 2200 sq ft) of living space later; garage or storage will be added.
The back wall of the house is embedded up to about 2 m (7 ft) into the slope.
I will try to attach a rough overview of the plot.
I did some experimenting to pass the time.
Unfortunately, I’m not satisfied, but I want to share the sketches anyway since I don’t have more time.
Please note that this program is quite basic, so the sketches should be seen as rough drafts.
On the ground floor, room 4 has the smallest area at about 10.4 m² (112 sq ft), room 3 is 13.8 m² (148 sq ft).
I originally wanted to make room 5 the largest so it could serve as a practice room or something similar, with the guest toilet making it self-contained. The rear hallway area could be separated later.
Somehow, it feels like there isn’t enough space. The laundry room would share the heating system, but there’s hardly any storage room. Under the stairs there’s just enough space for a coat rack. Upstairs, there is a storage room and a retreat area.
Unfortunately, everything feels lined up next to each other, which I don’t like.
I first tried space-saving stairs, but since a long corridor acts as the access space for many rooms anyway, a slim staircase fits better.
As for dimensions, beds are 90 x 200 cm (35 x 79 inches), windows are 150 cm (59 inches) wide, with the two large ones being 3 meters (10 feet).
Maybe some ideas will come from this, or at least it gives an impression of your room layout.
Overall, it has 185 m² (1991 sq ft), although I’m not sure how the program calculates. The walls are only about 10 cm (4 inches) thick cardboard anyway.
Best regards, Yvonne
Unfortunately, I’m not satisfied, but I want to share the sketches anyway since I don’t have more time.
Please note that this program is quite basic, so the sketches should be seen as rough drafts.
On the ground floor, room 4 has the smallest area at about 10.4 m² (112 sq ft), room 3 is 13.8 m² (148 sq ft).
I originally wanted to make room 5 the largest so it could serve as a practice room or something similar, with the guest toilet making it self-contained. The rear hallway area could be separated later.
Somehow, it feels like there isn’t enough space. The laundry room would share the heating system, but there’s hardly any storage room. Under the stairs there’s just enough space for a coat rack. Upstairs, there is a storage room and a retreat area.
Unfortunately, everything feels lined up next to each other, which I don’t like.
I first tried space-saving stairs, but since a long corridor acts as the access space for many rooms anyway, a slim staircase fits better.
As for dimensions, beds are 90 x 200 cm (35 x 79 inches), windows are 150 cm (59 inches) wide, with the two large ones being 3 meters (10 feet).
Maybe some ideas will come from this, or at least it gives an impression of your room layout.
Overall, it has 185 m² (1991 sq ft), although I’m not sure how the program calculates. The walls are only about 10 cm (4 inches) thick cardboard anyway.
Best regards, Yvonne
ypg schrieb:
Unfortunately, I am not satisfied, Yes, I find your hand sketches better.
What I particularly dislike about such programs are the entries of the “precise to the centimeter” measurements, which give the whole thing an apparently concrete feel, even though it’s still just a sketch. For example, a bathroom width of 3.29 meters (10 ft 9 in) doesn’t seriously mean anything more than “about 3.3 meters (11 ft).” This can easily lead a layperson viewing it to think that the measurement has a special significance and must be followed “exactly as shown.”
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11ant schrieb:
Yes, I find your hand sketches better.
What I particularly dislike about such programs is the entry of "centimeter-precise" dimensions, which give the whole thing an apparently exact character, even if it is still just a sketch and, for example, 3.29 m (about 10 ft 10 in) bathroom width obviously doesn’t mean it shouldn’t simply be “around 3.3 m (about 11 ft).” A non-expert viewer might easily think this has a special meaning and must be "exactly like that."There are no fixed dimensions... that’s what I wrote.
The ones shown are only for illustration, to indicate roughly the scale used for drawing.
It is not helpful for any reader or the original poster to place rooms next to each other and simply overlook that the plan is in the 250 m² (about 2690 sq ft) range, although 180 m² (about 1940 sq ft) is intended. And you need some dimensions to even understand what is possible and what is not.
The sketch in the initial post simply won't work if walls still need to be built.
ypg schrieb:
The sketch in the initial thread simply doesn’t work if walls are still going to be built. Oh, you just add a meter (well, actually 1.20 meters (4 feet)) and then it fits.
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11ant schrieb:
Oh, you think just to add one meter (well, actually 1.20 meters (4 feet)) and then it fits.No, then it won’t fit anymore – with a width limit of 11.35 meters (37 feet 3 inches)!
Many thanks, ypg! You really put a lot of effort into this! I think I’ll print it out tomorrow and review it carefully on paper. Furnished, of course, it’s great since it gives a better impression!
Regarding my drawing: the exterior walls will be 36cm (14 inches) thick plus about three interior walls at 20cm (8 inches) each. So roughly 1.4m (4.6 feet) in total. This means the house can’t actually be 10m (33 feet) wide if the allowed width is 11.35m (37 feet), but 5cm (2 inches) less. However, I thought I wouldn’t be that precise and would leave that to the architect. And if it’s not placed directly at the front building line (building limit), it may even be allowed to be slightly wider.
Regarding my drawing: the exterior walls will be 36cm (14 inches) thick plus about three interior walls at 20cm (8 inches) each. So roughly 1.4m (4.6 feet) in total. This means the house can’t actually be 10m (33 feet) wide if the allowed width is 11.35m (37 feet), but 5cm (2 inches) less. However, I thought I wouldn’t be that precise and would leave that to the architect. And if it’s not placed directly at the front building line (building limit), it may even be allowed to be slightly wider.
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