Hello everyone!
We have now had several meetings with our architect and are unfortunately quite dissatisfied with the designs. These are the 5th drafts and still far from what we envision.
Here are the designs for now.
I am particularly bothered by the awkwardly shaped rooms. According to the architect, this is necessary due to the structural requirements of the urban villa...
We have now had several meetings with our architect and are unfortunately quite dissatisfied with the designs. These are the 5th drafts and still far from what we envision.
Here are the designs for now.
I am particularly bothered by the awkwardly shaped rooms. According to the architect, this is necessary due to the structural requirements of the urban villa...
If you plan the exterior staircase in advance, the whole thing becomes much easier right away.
Maybe sketch out a bit how you envision it. Or are there examples online that you like? I will immediately digitize the old plan so there’s no need to fiddle around unnecessarily.
Maybe sketch out a bit how you envision it. Or are there examples online that you like? I will immediately digitize the old plan so there’s no need to fiddle around unnecessarily.
Of course, I can understand. We also tried for a long time to continue, but it just wasn’t possible, so we decided to accept the costs and cut our losses. However, we only paid him a small portion of the agreed costs since most of the work hadn’t been done yet (it was just very rough sketches without measurements or anything like that, no cost planning, etc.). So, we got off with relatively minor losses and didn’t lose much money in the end. Our problem was that we also made suggestions ourselves and even presented a completely self-drawn floor plan, but he just shut it down and didn’t respond to it. Therefore, we had no other choice. I hope you still manage to find some common ground. But as it stands now, I would definitely not go ahead with it! I agree with kaho: just throw it away, don’t try to improve it here and there—get rid of it right away.
Linda85 schrieb:
and unfortunately we are quite unhappy with the designs. These are now the 5th versions and still quite far from what we have in mind. I completely share the dissatisfaction. Why not compare an earlier version—preferably the first one? That might reveal where the process got stuck.
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
Unfortunately, I can only read JPGs, not PDFs.
I was just able to open the ground floor plan; the hallway recess is unusual but probably understandable to allow space in the hallway for undressing.
I find the wardrobe too prominent, but having a recessed area is either standard or hardly present at all.
Best regards in brief
I was just able to open the ground floor plan; the hallway recess is unusual but probably understandable to allow space in the hallway for undressing.
I find the wardrobe too prominent, but having a recessed area is either standard or hardly present at all.
Best regards in brief
Linda85 schrieb:
What bothers me most are the awkwardly shaped rooms. According to the architect, this is necessary due to the structural requirements of the townhouse... That is an old wives’ tale, at least this is the first time I’ve heard it. I’m surprised by what people in the Hunsrück region imagine when they hear “townhouse.” But then again—when they say “town,” they often mean Emmelshausen.
To me, this is just a rectangular floor plan with a hipped roof (which, considering today’s modern interpretation of the term “townhouse,” can almost be called “steep”)—nothing more. Visually, it looks like a duplex, which is further emphasized by the front door being half a staircase lower.
Farilo schrieb:
I’m wondering why anyone would even need an architect when building a townhouse?! Do you mean that for a trendy, standardized house type (with sample floor plans easily found everywhere), a creative professional would be unnecessary?
We are currently having a sufficient discussion about the purpose and value of architects here—I suggest browsing previous posts, as I don’t want to repeat myself multiple times in the same month.
Linda85 schrieb:
One more question: what do you think about a split-level solution for a sloped site? So, the front door is 5 steps up from the main floor level. A split-level design should actually be very appealing to an architect given this topography. I can’t understand how someone could stubbornly ignore that. At the latest, the section drawing should make it obvious to the designer that this is poorly planned.
In my opinion, one should immediately recognize here:
1) Rotating the garage entrance to face the street (and having it on level grade without a slope) would provide a good opportunity to add a passage from the garage into the basement.
2) As you can see from comparing the heights of the current upper floor’s finished floor level with the intersection point of the terrace edge and the terrain slope, a split-level layout would bring the garden side of the main floor to the right height for a terrace without extra steps down.
[I have highlighted the heights here in light blue and medium blue: as you can see, with split level and about 40cm (15.7 inches) of parallel downward shift, you achieve perfectly matched heights, plus half a basement level.]
If the architect doesn’t have tunnel vision, this plot of land is actually not bad at all.
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
11ant schrieb:
2) As you can see from the comparison of the current upper floor (UF) floor height with the junction of the terrace edge and ground level, a split-level design would bring the garden side of the ground floor (GF) to the right height for a terrace without steps going down.Honestly, I’m really confused when it comes to hillside plans. Do you mean that you would step out onto the terrace from the upper floor (UF)?
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