ᐅ Single-Family Home – Feedback on Our Design

I hope you now understand why I am slowly starting to get desperate. It will no longer be an architect but a draftsman.

Hello MBS2201,

the growing frustration is understandable.

However, what exactly is preventing you from doing a much more thorough reset of the floor plan than has been done so far?

Up to now, only cosmetic changes have been made to a poor floor plan (at least from the perspective of some forum members). But why not a truly restorative approach?

Some of the factors preventing such a "restoration" are presented by you/your team as fixed. Question: Why? If you don’t break free from these assumptions here, even the forum’s help can achieve very little.

See also Kaho674 in post #69.

MBS2201 schrieb:
I hope you now understand why I am slowly starting to get desperate. It will no longer be an architect but a draftsman.

Honestly, no.

It certainly hurts to pay for a service unnecessarily and not get any value in return. I can understand why you would want to try handling it on your own then. But you have already been messing around with the house for some time. It won't be a budget build with a larger living area and balcony either. So, based on your experience, you should draw a line and let a professional take over again. You probably had bad experiences with women before you gave your wife a chance as well.

A complete reset is planned. However, as already mentioned, it will be done by a draftsman. Since I have received positive evaluations of the plan from one architect and two other draftsmen, but your opinions differ significantly, I would like to gather your views on a reset so that I can provide the draftsman with clear instructions.

MBS2201 schrieb:
Please share your idea or vision on how or what should be changed if you find the plan so off.

I already did, see:

11ant schrieb:
A central staircase may add flair to the ground floor, but at the same time it’s somewhat of a liability for the upper floor. Combined with the south room dogma, corner window dogma, and children’s balcony dogma, this might create a self-imposed planning trap.
I therefore recommend trying out further variants, each time sacrificing one of these sacred cows.

11ant schrieb:
Kids don’t really care for balconies anyway, maybe as teenagers to smoke some weed, but you don’t need to allocate lots of floor area for that. So get rid of it and, as I said, start from the upper floor first.

11ant schrieb:
The magic triangle is: Point A = the mental image of the designer house you’d like to build – Point B = the needs of the building family – Point C = the actual plot of land.

MBS2201 schrieb:
Hello, I never said it couldn’t be changed. [...] Unfortunately, we have the major problem that the concrete slab is already in place. Possibly a small advantage that it has been laid as a rectangle.

Ouch (and: when did you mention the fixed slab?). In my view, this does not quite align, and how that fits with

MBS2201 schrieb:
Another version of the ground floor with an extended bay window, so that the kitchen counter still fits.

is beyond me.

MBS2201 schrieb:
Unfortunately, it will no longer be an architect but a draftsman.

The chief physician has Parkinson’s, which is unfortunate. But can the patient really be saved if the trainee nurse holds the scalpel?

So: now we have a concrete slab (according to the draftsman’s design?), which also has connections for supply lines and drains, so not just its outline as fixed points. A draftsman can be a very capable and experienced assistant, but in this situation, I see an urgent need for a top specialist.

I’ll gladly repeat my mantra: the first foundation is the concrete slab with all connections. On that, he develops the upper floor as the second basis (because it is the more demanding level), and only then the ground floor. The central staircase, the south room dogma, the corner window dogma, and the children’s balcony dogma are priorities number 30, 50, 80, and 99. For me, position 81 could be “sculptural aspects of the staircase.”

Feel free to report back here – from this forum, I’d say only kbt09 could possibly handle this task. But it’s definitely too demanding to do it for free.

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MBS2201 schrieb:
A complete reset is planned. However, as I already mentioned, it will be done by a draftsman. Since I have received good evaluations of the plan from one architect and two other draftsmen, but you have a completely different opinion, I would like to gather your views on a reset so that I can provide clear information to the draftsman.

They considered it good that the stairs are different both at the top and bottom, and that there are 3 meters (10 feet) available at the front of the ground floor while the upper floor has a generous 4 meters (13 feet)? Well, good luck with that.

As a photographer, I’m often proudly shown photos of wedding couples taken by an amateur. Do you think I criticize the lack of artistic composition? Or poor lighting?

No one said the concept is stupid, but it's definitely not well thought out… if I put aside the serious mistakes... although, of course, there are different opinions here as well.