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.
Arifas schrieb:
Hmm, I just realized I even drew it with 11m (36 feet). No, that really won’t work. But maybe there’s still some room to adjust...
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The problem I see in your sketch is that even with a 1-meter (3 feet) hallway, living space is being wasted because 2.5 meters (8 feet) will reduce the size of the bedrooms. Your Room 5 will probably disappear completely or be reduced to the size of a storage closet.
You will definitely be able to adjust the house size to fit the plot, but costs are also a factor. Wasting unusable square meters (square feet) in the floor plan is just throwing money away. At 1800 per square meter (167 per square foot), you can quickly figure out where you stand.
Best regards, Yvonne
Arifas schrieb:
And if you don’t position it directly at the front of the building envelope, it can even be a bit wider. This building envelope can also have projections or even adapt to its trapezoidal shape.
How is your implementation going regarding the suggestion to divide the floor plan over more than 2.0 storeys?
The room layout, as shown in the sketch including the imagined wall thicknesses, would fall outside the limits of the building envelope, and shifting it to a slightly wider spot will probably not significantly change that.
However, the rooms don’t have any “dimensional budget” that would allow reducing the wall thicknesses. So this approach likely won’t work, and another distribution of rooms and floors is necessary – due to the total size probably more than 2.0 storeys.
My suggestion remains a three-child storey (possibly including a practice room) as a future granny flat, and above that, a one-and-a-half storey designed for a two-child family.
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Yvonne, there really is an incredible amount packed into a small space! That’s very important for us. Some things don’t quite fit our needs, but I think I can still take a lot of inspiration from it. Unfortunately, the conventional floor plans usually don’t work well for us.
11ant, we have an appointment with the architect on the plot tomorrow. I plan to bring up the idea of 3 living levels. Visually it’s probably very appealing, but I imagine it might be more expensive. Also, managing a household for 7 people across 3 levels is more stressful than over 2.
11ant, we have an appointment with the architect on the plot tomorrow. I plan to bring up the idea of 3 living levels. Visually it’s probably very appealing, but I imagine it might be more expensive. Also, managing a household for 7 people across 3 levels is more stressful than over 2.
Arifas schrieb:
Unfortunately, the conventional floor plans are not really suitable for us. Yes and no. A single-family home for five children would be a market-remote property and would also require an ideal plot as a townhouse (in the sense of a concept with 2.0 stories). On the other hand, "conventional" floor plans for sloped plots can definitely be useful for you, but you would need to think about integrating the secondary apartment with the family living space.
Arifas schrieb:
And a household for 7 people across 3 levels is more stressful than over 2 The rooms that are less central to daily family life should ideally be placed in the basement and/or attic. Although the utility room is part of the household, it is not as socially significant or closely connected as the parents’ and children’s rooms.
If necessary, you might have to plan a bit unconventionally—for example, by distributing the bathroom facilities spatially, with a shower in the personal hygiene bathroom and a bathtub in the wellness bathroom (next to the roof terrace), or something similar. To some extent, you will have to accept compromises, such as walking up and down stairs between the pantry and kitchen.
It simply is not a bungalow plot.
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Arifas schrieb:
Yvonne, there is really an incredible amount packed into such a small space! That is very important for us. Some things don’t quite suit our needs, but I think I can still take some ideas from it. Unfortunately, the conventional floor plans don’t really work for us.
2Yes, while planning, I noticed that there is missing information about whether you need a practice room or if the children’s ages might be a factor. Also, it would be important to know if a separate living room might be better, or whether cooking is done often and intensively.
If you like, you can share some more details so I can make further adjustments before I delete the plan from the software.
It’s really just meant as inspiration, but the more information you provide, the more effective the fine-tuning will be.
Best regards, Yvonne
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