ᐅ Is this a concrete carport? Or is it made of wood or aluminum?

Here is a simplified plan of the property and house.
I would appreciate any suggestions.

Here is a picture of the house.
P.S. I find the red roof tiles quite overwhelming, but unfortunately, they were required later on.

And you now want to cover the entire front yard with the carport?
I would reconsider that. I see more of a single carport on the north side with a covered walkway to the entrance door.
For the granny flat, a parking space in the yard or on the east side...
I would also consult a carpenter who builds using clad timber frame construction.

This is roughly how I imagine it.

A double carport is necessary since we have two cars.
What is the difference compared to a single carport with a roof connected to the house?

Extending the carport roof forward to serve as a covered entrance for the granny flat might be nice. However, I’m not sure if that’s allowed due to setback requirements, etc. It also depends on the additional costs involved…

On-site fabrication can also be called site-built: meaning assembled, welded, or carpentered directly on the construction site. For the bulky element in the example picture, I would probably assemble it using concrete, aerated concrete, steel beams, square tubing, and drywall panels – before plastering, it would look like something Dr. Frankenstein put together. I would politely describe it as "heterogeneous."

A carpenter can do this as well, using columns made, for example, from beams wrapped in drywall (with a cross-section including plaster potentially under 30cm (12 inches)). However, the floor connection of these columns would be "non-trivial." As I said, ask Massa Haus how they handle this in reality – it’s probably possible to do it less bulky.

However, keep in mind: the carport in the example image you used is more in line budget-wise with the cars parked underneath than with the house. For that price, you could connect your hot tub to the heating system and still afford to gild the kitchen extractor hood.

I definitely would not want to cover the area where the yellow S60 (?) is parked in your picture with such a carport: the poor tenant also needs morning light in the bathroom and kitchen during summer, and visually the main entrance would become a side entrance, just because of the “hidden” location.

So, I agree with Yvonne’s suggestion to leave the parking space closer to the house and the tenant’s spot uncovered.

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11ant schrieb:
However, keep in mind: the carport in the example image you used fits the budget more for the cars underneath than for the house.

Um, what is that supposed to mean?
I never said which cars would be parked there...? At least at the beginning, there will be a Ford S-Max and a small car, but does that really matter?!

And I have no idea about the budget. Is it roughly in the range of a double garage?
I know my example image is from Massa Haus. To me, it’s not really in the “exclusive” or “high-end” category.
But that doesn’t matter. I was just referring to that rendered/plastered look.

11ant schrieb:
the poor granny flat also needs light in the bathroom and kitchen in the morning during summer,

The kitchen of the granny flat faces east/south. The bedroom and bathroom are on the north side.
Yes, light would be nice here but it’s manageable without. In my current bedroom, we almost never raise the blinds, and our bathroom has no window at all.

11ant schrieb:
I would use the space where in your picture the yellow S60 (?) is located

Sorry, my artistic talent is pretty much non-existent...
Green is supposed to roughly represent the area where the carport should go, and the black squiggly lines are the car and the path to the front door.

So you would put a single carport on the boundary and just a parking space between the carport and the house?

I find that really difficult. I don’t want to move the house unnecessarily far away from the north/east boundaries just because of the carport/parking space and give up the south/west garden.