ᐅ Classic urban villa with flat roof or double shed roof – any ideas?

Hello everyone,

I have a question for you, or maybe someone has built something similar and can give me some tips 🙂

We want to build a single-family house with a granny flat. At first, that doesn’t seem like a problem... the challenge is that the granny flat should have a floor area of about 80 sqm (860 sq ft), and our house would have about 70 sqm (750 sq ft) on the ground floor and 80–90 sqm (860–970 sq ft) on the upper floor. How would you suggest dividing the space so the house doesn’t look too bulky? Our plot is 1050 sqm (11,300 sq ft). Everything can be built except a flat roof. The roof must have a pitch of 25°.

My ideas so far were a classic townhouse style with some flat roof elements alongside, or a double mono-pitched roof where one section is one story and the other is one and a half to two stories. I can’t quite imagine it with a gable roof.

I also don’t have a good sense of what would be cheaper or more expensive 🙂

I’d be really happy to get your replies 🙂

Good luck
Volker

Nice full ground floor with an upper floor. The upper floor is completely allocated to the larger unit.
The ground floor is divided equally (or 80/70).
This results in approximately 90 sqm (970 sq ft) of living space upstairs. That works.

So, your suggestion is a bungalow with an attic?

Write down some background information. Will a family member be living there? Or is the apartment mainly intended for external rental? Can the granny flat be upstairs, or do you want to avoid stairs?

Why do you need 80 sqm (860 sq ft) of space?

Depending on your needs, you might consider a shared utility room and similar solutions to save space.

A site plan with the dimensions of the property and a north arrow would also be helpful. It makes a difference whether the plot is long and narrow, more square-shaped, and where the access points are located, as well as if it might be a sloped site, and so on.

fullkehr schrieb:
so you are suggesting a bungalow with an attic?

No, I am referring to a full storey with an additional attic level! Commonly called a 1.5-storey house – but there is no such thing as half storeys. It’s a gable roof house where about two-thirds of the upper floor area counts as living space.

So: a semi-detached house where the entire upper floor belongs solely to one unit.