ᐅ Single-family home, approximately 160 m², Bauhaus style; first design draft based on our requirements
Created on: 23 Aug 2019 22:03
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Notstrom
Hello everyone,
we've been looking forward to this for a long time, and now we can finally share our first draft floor plan/design for discussion. We’re very curious to hear your feedback.
Those of you who have seen my thread before (https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/efh-Bauhausstil-Wohnfläche-180m-mit-Doppelgarage.31853/) know what to expect, and here comes the gem.
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: 530m² (about 5,700 sq ft)
Slope: No
Site coverage ratio (Grundflächenzahl): see screenshot
Floor area ratio (Geschossflächenzahl): see screenshot
Building envelope, building line, and boundaries: see screenshot
Edge development: see screenshot
Number of parking spaces: double garage
Number of floors: 2
Roof style: flat roof
Architectural style: Bauhaus
Orientation
Maximum height/limitations
Other requirements
The green highlighted area represents our plot => Parcel 8479
Homeowner Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: Bauhaus style, flat roof
Basement, floors: Basement yes, ground floor, upper floor
Number of residents, ages: 3 people, potentially 4: 33, 30, 2 years old
Space requirements on ground and upper floors: Initially planned 180 m² (about 1,940 sq ft) on two stories, now reduced to 160 m² (about 1,720 sq ft) after feedback, with the ground floor slightly larger than the upper floor, around 75–85 m² (810–915 sq ft)
Office: Family use or home office? Yes, in the basement (guest room <-> office)
Overnight guests per year: Hard to say, probably about 10 times per year with 2–5 guests each time
Open or closed architecture: Rather open
Conservative or modern construction: Rather modern
Open kitchen, cooking island: Island
Number of dining spaces: 1
Fireplace: Yes
Music/sound system wall: Our soundbar is sufficient
Balcony, roof terrace: Maybe, undecided (Architect’s comment: How often do you really go out for a beer on the balcony/roof terrace instead of the nice terrace on the ground floor?)
Garage, carport: Double garage, possibly single garage with carport
Kitchen garden, greenhouse: Small but nice (a few tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchinis…)
House Design
Planning by: Architect
What do you particularly like? Why? We like the architecture with the two offset rectangles, though we wonder if the extra cost (no price estimate yet) justifies this. We believe it is structurally more challenging than a simple "cube."
What don’t you like? Why? The size of the bedroom/walk-in closet/children’s room. It feels like the bedroom is missing 2–5 m² (about 20–55 sq ft), as is the second children’s room.
Price estimate according to architect/planner: The initial draft was around 550,000 EUR
Personal price limit for the house, including fixtures: 620,000 EUR
Preferred heating technology: Indifferent, but tendency toward heat pump.
If you had to give up something, which details/finishes
- You can give up: the current shape (nice but a cube would also do)
- You cannot give up: space
Why is the design the way it is now? For example:
Standard design from the planner? This is the second design resulting from last week’s discussion with us, and we find it very successful.
Which wishes were implemented by the architect? Absolutely, plus the idea he had to move the kitchen during development. The guest room has now moved to the basement, allowing more space on the ground floor (beforehand, it felt quite cramped and “squeezed”).
What makes it especially good or bad in your opinion? The architecture
...and now I’ll leave you alone with our house
Upper floor plan:
Basement:
we've been looking forward to this for a long time, and now we can finally share our first draft floor plan/design for discussion. We’re very curious to hear your feedback.
Those of you who have seen my thread before (https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/efh-Bauhausstil-Wohnfläche-180m-mit-Doppelgarage.31853/) know what to expect, and here comes the gem.
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: 530m² (about 5,700 sq ft)
Slope: No
Site coverage ratio (Grundflächenzahl): see screenshot
Floor area ratio (Geschossflächenzahl): see screenshot
Building envelope, building line, and boundaries: see screenshot
Edge development: see screenshot
Number of parking spaces: double garage
Number of floors: 2
Roof style: flat roof
Architectural style: Bauhaus
Orientation
Maximum height/limitations
Other requirements
The green highlighted area represents our plot => Parcel 8479
Homeowner Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: Bauhaus style, flat roof
Basement, floors: Basement yes, ground floor, upper floor
Number of residents, ages: 3 people, potentially 4: 33, 30, 2 years old
Space requirements on ground and upper floors: Initially planned 180 m² (about 1,940 sq ft) on two stories, now reduced to 160 m² (about 1,720 sq ft) after feedback, with the ground floor slightly larger than the upper floor, around 75–85 m² (810–915 sq ft)
Office: Family use or home office? Yes, in the basement (guest room <-> office)
Overnight guests per year: Hard to say, probably about 10 times per year with 2–5 guests each time
Open or closed architecture: Rather open
Conservative or modern construction: Rather modern
Open kitchen, cooking island: Island
Number of dining spaces: 1
Fireplace: Yes
Music/sound system wall: Our soundbar is sufficient
Balcony, roof terrace: Maybe, undecided (Architect’s comment: How often do you really go out for a beer on the balcony/roof terrace instead of the nice terrace on the ground floor?)
Garage, carport: Double garage, possibly single garage with carport
Kitchen garden, greenhouse: Small but nice (a few tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchinis…)
House Design
Planning by: Architect
What do you particularly like? Why? We like the architecture with the two offset rectangles, though we wonder if the extra cost (no price estimate yet) justifies this. We believe it is structurally more challenging than a simple "cube."
What don’t you like? Why? The size of the bedroom/walk-in closet/children’s room. It feels like the bedroom is missing 2–5 m² (about 20–55 sq ft), as is the second children’s room.
Price estimate according to architect/planner: The initial draft was around 550,000 EUR
Personal price limit for the house, including fixtures: 620,000 EUR
Preferred heating technology: Indifferent, but tendency toward heat pump.
If you had to give up something, which details/finishes
- You can give up: the current shape (nice but a cube would also do)
- You cannot give up: space
Why is the design the way it is now? For example:
Standard design from the planner? This is the second design resulting from last week’s discussion with us, and we find it very successful.
Which wishes were implemented by the architect? Absolutely, plus the idea he had to move the kitchen during development. The guest room has now moved to the basement, allowing more space on the ground floor (beforehand, it felt quite cramped and “squeezed”).
What makes it especially good or bad in your opinion? The architecture
...and now I’ll leave you alone with our house
Upper floor plan:
Basement:
kaho674 schrieb:
I have found that the best results usually come when you first clearly define your needs (rooms per floor, size, special features). Then arrange these rooms on the plot, and finally adjust the exterior design.
However, you can also do it the other way around and decide first that the building must be a cube from the outside. But then it often quickly happens that you end up with rooms you don’t need or lack some you do. In the end, it’s a matter of preference. What do you want? To adapt yourselves to the house, or should the house adapt to you, in the sense of “form follows function”? We are very happy with the approach Katja outlined above. We created a room specification list and sent the architect to the plot with the instruction “just do it.” We had already given him some general taste preferences, but he worked without us showing any floor plans. We are now very happy with our 160 sqm (1,722 sq ft) home with straight staircases that are currently being built.
I can understand you well, the process is exhausting and can be really frustrating. But at some point, you will reach that “this is it!” moment. Definitely.
Notstrom schrieb:
I’m really wondering if we should approach this differently, meaning: Is the sequence not actually a) floor plan, b) architecture => Bauhaus, c) cube...
I think we really need to reconsider this, because in the end we only have the style in mind and a rough floor plan; for the rest, we are still "free"... Yes, this sequence is not the right one.
Plot of land, family, and budget are already three more than sufficient constraints to guide the boundless possibilities of a "blank sheet" into a planning direction. Mental scissors – even "just one," no matter which it is – Bauhaus, cube, hip roof, brickwork, each of these additional restrictions is one too many as long as you are still at the concept level. Many aspiring homeowners already pick away at these details in the rough sketch phase. But the selection of conceptual variants belongs in the preliminary design phase, followed by the permit planning in design scale, and only then, at 1:50 scale, is the design refined and styled. Those who want to avoid "Function tries Not amusing hard to follow Form" should not choose their shoes before their dress.
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And now here is the second version – still with some open points, but I will comment on those in this post.
Further change requests from us are:
- The fireplace on the ground floor will be relocated next to the dining/living area so we can have a passage from the hallway into the living room (the wall will be adjusted slightly here…)
- The wall in the kitchen will be removed to enable an island kitchen layout
- The wrap-around terrace will be extended up to the window front of the living room to allow an exit there (sliding door!)
- South of the dining table we would replace the sliding door with a glass facade (including possibly a balcony door)
- Possibly replace the spiral staircase with a staircase with a landing. Architect’s note: this requires space
- Possibly adjust the floor area (currently about 148m² (1590 sq ft))
- Enlarge the window at the staircase in the first floor
Open points:
- Bathroom size. Finding space for a cabinet or similar is difficult due to the two entrances to the bathroom, we might need to rethink this
- Simulation of a hipped roof on the given house
- Possibly adjust one or two windows again (e.g., staircase, see north elevation; floor-to-ceiling windows in children’s rooms, see north elevation; horizontal window strip in the kitchen, see south elevation)
- We find the house front (east elevation) a bit plain, but we will come back to that later; at the moment, the floor plan is the absolute priority
Looking forward to your feedback!
Further change requests from us are:
- The fireplace on the ground floor will be relocated next to the dining/living area so we can have a passage from the hallway into the living room (the wall will be adjusted slightly here…)
- The wall in the kitchen will be removed to enable an island kitchen layout
- The wrap-around terrace will be extended up to the window front of the living room to allow an exit there (sliding door!)
- South of the dining table we would replace the sliding door with a glass facade (including possibly a balcony door)
- Possibly replace the spiral staircase with a staircase with a landing. Architect’s note: this requires space
- Possibly adjust the floor area (currently about 148m² (1590 sq ft))
- Enlarge the window at the staircase in the first floor
Open points:
- Bathroom size. Finding space for a cabinet or similar is difficult due to the two entrances to the bathroom, we might need to rethink this
- Simulation of a hipped roof on the given house
- Possibly adjust one or two windows again (e.g., staircase, see north elevation; floor-to-ceiling windows in children’s rooms, see north elevation; horizontal window strip in the kitchen, see south elevation)
- We find the house front (east elevation) a bit plain, but we will come back to that later; at the moment, the floor plan is the absolute priority
Looking forward to your feedback!
Notstrom schrieb:
And now comes the second attempt From the "architect"??? – I would strongly dislike the spatial feeling here: if you turn sharply right shortly after entering the walk-in closet (almost as if stepping through a wormhole into another galaxy), you suddenly find yourself in a recess large enough to fit a double bed. Formally (the bed fits, and the path to get there does too), this qualifies perfectly as a "bedroom," but architecturally, it’s clearly the kind you would at best wish on a (dreaded) mother-in-law. What does the architect do again? – I still consider him more of a permit drafter, meaning a structural engineer who thinks of "Bauhaus" as a specialty store for bathroom mirrors and roofing battens.
By the way – I’m curious if you see any similarities here – the floor plans remind me of the (though successful) design of the house by @Zaba12 https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/Grundriss-für-11m-x-8-25m-ok.24781/
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