Hello everyone, now it’s our turn. We’ve read a lot and heard much about circulation paths and related topics. Now we would like to know what the experienced but also critical community thinks about our floor plan. So please type away and give us feedback on the layout. Thank you very much.
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size - 500 sqm (about 5380 sq ft)
Slope - no
Site coverage ratio - 0.4
Floor area ratio - 0.8
Building envelope, setback lines - 5 meters (16.4 ft) from the street and 5 meters (16.4 ft) to the rear
Edge development
Number of parking spaces - 1 garage 3 x 8 meters (10 x 26 ft) / 1-2 in front of the garage
Number of storeys - 2
Roof type - none/open
Architectural style - none/open
Orientation - none/open
Maximum heights / limits - none/open
Further requirements - none/open
Client Requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type - Modern – urban villa
Basement, number of floors - no basement, 2 floors
Number of occupants, age - 2 adults and 1 child (early 30s and 1 year old)
Space requirements on ground floor (GF), upper floor (UF) -
GF WC with shower, living room with kitchen and dining area, study;
UF: study, children’s room, bathroom, master bedroom with dressing room;
Office: family use or home office? - office for home office, guests for visitors
Number of guest stays per year - 20-30
Open or enclosed architecture - rather open
Conservative or modern construction - open
Open kitchen, kitchen island - preferably, but not mandatory
Number of dining seats - 3 daily; irregularly 5-6; rarely 7-10 (mostly in summer)
Fireplace - a MUST!!!
Music / stereo wall - no, only TV wall
Balcony, roof terrace - no
Garage, carport - garage, possibly carport in front
Utility garden, greenhouse - small greenhouse only
Additional wishes / special features / daily routine, also reasons why some things are wanted or not - Friends advised us not to make the utility room (laundry/household room) too small, so it should be somewhat larger.
House Design
Designer:
- planner from a construction company
What do you particularly like? Why?
- As non-homeowners, we find the design very nice and think it should fit us very well.
What do you not like? Why?
- The fireplace flue. We are unsure if it fits well so that the smoke can be properly vented above.
Price estimate according to architect/planner:
- $410,000
Personal budget limit for house including fixtures:
- open
Preferred heating system:
- air-to-water heat pump
If you had to give up on any details / expansions
- What can you do without:
- dressing room in the bedroom
- What you cannot do without:
- guest WC shower, study, fireplace
Why is the design as it is now?
Standard design from the planner with small wall adjustments
What do you think makes it particularly good or bad?
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan in 130 characters or less?
What do you think of the floor plan? How do you find the number and arrangement of windows? What is good and what could be improved? How could the fireplace flue (by the way room-air-independent) be solved? And anything else we might have missed
House dimensions 10.12m x 8.99m (33.2 ft x 29.5 ft)
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size - 500 sqm (about 5380 sq ft)
Slope - no
Site coverage ratio - 0.4
Floor area ratio - 0.8
Building envelope, setback lines - 5 meters (16.4 ft) from the street and 5 meters (16.4 ft) to the rear
Edge development
Number of parking spaces - 1 garage 3 x 8 meters (10 x 26 ft) / 1-2 in front of the garage
Number of storeys - 2
Roof type - none/open
Architectural style - none/open
Orientation - none/open
Maximum heights / limits - none/open
Further requirements - none/open
Client Requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type - Modern – urban villa
Basement, number of floors - no basement, 2 floors
Number of occupants, age - 2 adults and 1 child (early 30s and 1 year old)
Space requirements on ground floor (GF), upper floor (UF) -
GF WC with shower, living room with kitchen and dining area, study;
UF: study, children’s room, bathroom, master bedroom with dressing room;
Office: family use or home office? - office for home office, guests for visitors
Number of guest stays per year - 20-30
Open or enclosed architecture - rather open
Conservative or modern construction - open
Open kitchen, kitchen island - preferably, but not mandatory
Number of dining seats - 3 daily; irregularly 5-6; rarely 7-10 (mostly in summer)
Fireplace - a MUST!!!
Music / stereo wall - no, only TV wall
Balcony, roof terrace - no
Garage, carport - garage, possibly carport in front
Utility garden, greenhouse - small greenhouse only
Additional wishes / special features / daily routine, also reasons why some things are wanted or not - Friends advised us not to make the utility room (laundry/household room) too small, so it should be somewhat larger.
House Design
Designer:
- planner from a construction company
What do you particularly like? Why?
- As non-homeowners, we find the design very nice and think it should fit us very well.
What do you not like? Why?
- The fireplace flue. We are unsure if it fits well so that the smoke can be properly vented above.
Price estimate according to architect/planner:
- $410,000
Personal budget limit for house including fixtures:
- open
Preferred heating system:
- air-to-water heat pump
If you had to give up on any details / expansions
- What can you do without:
- dressing room in the bedroom
- What you cannot do without:
- guest WC shower, study, fireplace
Why is the design as it is now?
Standard design from the planner with small wall adjustments
What do you think makes it particularly good or bad?
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan in 130 characters or less?
What do you think of the floor plan? How do you find the number and arrangement of windows? What is good and what could be improved? How could the fireplace flue (by the way room-air-independent) be solved? And anything else we might have missed
House dimensions 10.12m x 8.99m (33.2 ft x 29.5 ft)
We had a fireplace in a rental apartment. Of course, the fireplace gives off heat, but if used properly as a "Swedish fireplace" (meaning just for looking, not for heating the house), it can be enjoyed without significantly warming the whole space. By saying "I don’t want to heat," I mean I don’t want to get a tiled stove that heats the entire house. I just want one to sit around comfortably.
Moriarty schrieb:
There are not only heating fireplaces. A fireplace can also simply be there to add some coziness to the home. I never said I wanted to use it for heating or anything like that. Moriarty schrieb:
You can also use it correctly as a "Swedish fireplace" (so just for watching, not for heating the house). Even with Swedish humor, a real wood stove inevitably produces waste heat with every pleasant fire viewed, which in an energy-saving regulation thermal envelope will simply be surplus. That’s why I recommend a fake fireplace to those who are determined to have one: behind the LED flat screen (behind the wood stove’s glass door) there’s a Dolby Surround system for the crackling sound, while the authentic flicker and crackle irregularity is generated with negligible waste heat by a random generator running on a Raspberry Pi, programmed by an average teenager. If you regularly dust the stacked logs, no one will notice.
Moriarty schrieb:
I don’t really understand that. You have varied the floor plan of this old town villa from roughly square to slightly rectangular and now seem to be under a misconception: the floor plan seems to you as if you have widened a ten-by-ten to eleven-by-eleven, but in fact, you shortened it to nine-by-eleven. Therefore, fewer wishes can fit into this area, not more.
And I repeat my question, this time with different words: on what basis do you position, for example, a chimney if you have not yet decided on a roof shape (and consequently the location of ridges or hips is unknown)?
By the way, you can find working floor plans of this size at Massivhaus Mittelrhein, which is one of my favorites.
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
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Grantlhaua6 Feb 2020 14:0311ant schrieb:
Even with Swedish humor, a real wood-burning stove inevitably produces waste heat with every cozy fire, which will simply be excessive in a building envelope complying with energy-saving regulations. That’s why I recommend a fake stove to those who insist on having one: behind the LED flat-screen (behind the stove’s glass door), a Dolby Surround system provides the crackling sound, while a random flicker generator running on a Raspberry Pi, programmed by a typical teenager, creates the authentic irregular flickering and crackling with negligible waste heat. If you regularly dust the stored firewood, no one will notice.Seriously?
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Wugler19786 Feb 2020 14:2311ant schrieb:
Even with Swedish humor, a real wood-burning stove inevitably produces residual heat with every cozy fire, which in an energy-saving regulation thermal shell will simply be excessI believe this is an unnecessary debate. If someone wants to have a fireplace, that should be accepted. One should just point out the possible issues and share personal experiences and leave it at that. What is the use of repeating the same arguments for the tenth time? Personally, I also find a fireplace very nice. We currently live in a semi-detached house built to energy-saving regulation standards and have a wood stove with an 8 kW output. In the evening, it’s started with three logs, and then I add two more logs twice after that. This gives me a very pleasant warmth all evening, which I don’t get from a heating system.
Grantlhaua schrieb:
Seriously? Yes. With the next iPhone model, you can unplug the Raspberry Pi, then the fake fireplace show will start as programmed by the app.
Wugler1978 schrieb:
I think this is an unnecessary discussion. No, and every good discussion includes someone with an opposing view to that of the "11ant / Nordlys faction."
Wugler1978 schrieb:
If someone wants a fireplace, that choice should be accepted. But do not let someone walk into trouble whose experience with fireplaces comes from houses built before modern energy-saving regulations. Do you compensate your 3/1/1 logs with a nighttime temperature setback or something similar?
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
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Grantlhaua6 Feb 2020 14:4311ant schrieb:
But don’t let someone with stove experience from pre-energy saving regulation houses lead you into trouble. Do you compensate for your 3/1/1 logs with a nighttime setback or something similar?Even if @Mycraft will probably want to lynch me for this, isn’t that what your room thermostat is for? We also installed a floor sensor that prevents the floor from cooling down completely when the stove is heated for a longer period.
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