ᐅ Floor Plan Optimization for Urban Villa + Considerations for Land Elevation
Created on: 31 Jan 2020 13:29
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Shiny86
Plot size 492 sqm (5293 sq ft)
Slope yes
Site coverage ratio?
Floor area ratio?
Building envelope, building line, and boundary?
Boundary development?
Number of parking spaces 2
Number of floors 2
Roof type Pyramid roof, 25 degrees
Architectural style Modern urban villa
Orientation Main entrance facing north
Maximum heights/limits
Additional requirements?
Clients’ Requirements
Style, roof type, building type
Modern urban villa with pyramid roof, 25 degrees
Basement, floors 2 full floors without basement
Number of occupants 4
Open kitchen, kitchen island
Number of parking spaces 8-10
Garage
House design
Who designed it?
-Architect
What do you particularly like? Why?
Large living area, master bathroom
What don’t you like? Why?
Utility room quite small and master bedroom small, children’s room somewhat too large
Why is the design as it is now?
The architect implemented the corresponding wishes
What do you think is especially good or bad about it?
Good: large living area
I am uncertain about the half-height window sizes and the swing direction of the doors
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?
What do you think about the floor plans?
Slope yes
Site coverage ratio?
Floor area ratio?
Building envelope, building line, and boundary?
Boundary development?
Number of parking spaces 2
Number of floors 2
Roof type Pyramid roof, 25 degrees
Architectural style Modern urban villa
Orientation Main entrance facing north
Maximum heights/limits
Additional requirements?
Clients’ Requirements
Style, roof type, building type
Modern urban villa with pyramid roof, 25 degrees
Basement, floors 2 full floors without basement
Number of occupants 4
Open kitchen, kitchen island
Number of parking spaces 8-10
Garage
House design
Who designed it?
-Architect
What do you particularly like? Why?
Large living area, master bathroom
What don’t you like? Why?
Utility room quite small and master bedroom small, children’s room somewhat too large
Why is the design as it is now?
The architect implemented the corresponding wishes
What do you think is especially good or bad about it?
Good: large living area
I am uncertain about the half-height window sizes and the swing direction of the doors
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?
- Where could it still be optimized? Would you recommend different window dimensions or sill heights?
- What do you think is poor or what would you do differently?
- A partition wall will be added in the walk-in closet. That would theoretically allow watching TV from the bed. I am considering a lightweight wall. I plan to place a 211cm (83 inches) Pax combination wardrobe in the closet. The closet is planned with a raw width of 218cm (86 inches). Do you think 218cm is enough for the Pax once the walls are plastered, or how wide should the rough dimensions preferably be?
- Is the hallway on the ground floor too narrow?
- Would you raise the ground level? The house would be 40cm (16 inches) below street level. If I build a terrace into the garden, it would be about 1m (3 ft) difference. You could raise only the house level, resulting in approximately 1.6m (5 ft) difference between terrace and garden. I don’t know anyone living below street level. Raising the garden would probably not be allowed without permits, and affected neighbors likely wouldn’t agree. On the sides of the house adjacent to neighbors, raising is permitted only up to certain limits. I am overwhelmed with the decision.
- Do you have any ideas for arranging the sofa differently and placing the TV sensibly? My husband doesn’t want the sofa back facing a window. I still need to get used to placing the sofa in the middle of the room.
- Is the kitchen size sufficient for a nice kitchen with an island?
What do you think about the floor plans?
Too few windows in the children's rooms. The bathroom window disrupts the crucial symmetry of your front elevation. The bathroom noticeably lacks 12cm (5 inches) in depth. Why is there a third shower on the ground floor, and for heaven’s sake, why is the wall in front of the stairs on the upper floor still there? The stair width of 2.36m (7 feet 9 inches) is nice but quite large given the limited space in the bathroom. The door swing into the living room feels reversed.
The bathroom upstairs feels quite cramped. With the toilet, the wall is right in front of your face, and only a short and narrow bathtub fits. Or is the bathtub intended just for the children? In that case, I would also put it in the kids’ bathroom.
It might be possible to save space by omitting the T-junction.
It might be possible to save space by omitting the T-junction.
kaho674 schrieb:
Too few windows in the children’s rooms. The bathroom window ruins your very important symmetry on the front view. The bathroom lacks 12cm (5 inches) of depth noticeably. Why the third shower on the ground floor, and for heaven’s sake, why is the wall in front of the stairs on the upper floor still there? Staircase width of 2.36m (7 ft 9 in) is nice but quite excessive considering the limited bathroom space. The door swing into the living room feels backwards. Not all the windows have been changed yet.
We are very close to neighbors on both sides, so we thought one large window would be enough for the kids. It is also floor-to-ceiling.
The architect isn’t thinking it through and implemented what we wanted incorrectly.
The door in the living room swings to the left because we don’t want any wall space on the right side (see post #1), so the door wouldn’t hit anything on the right. The architect just took this piece of wall from your design. What advantage does that small wall serve? Or is it just a matter of taste?
The third shower is deliberate. This is so we can still live here comfortably as we get older.
Wall in front of the stairs: oh my, does it go all the way to the ceiling???
I imagine something like a 1m (3 ft 3 in) high half-wall made of masonry or whatever the typical height is. Isn’t this supposed to be a balustrade? How high should it be?
Lenschke schrieb:
The upstairs bathroom feels quite cramped. The wall is right in front of your face when sitting on the toilet, and only a short, narrow bathtub fits. Or is the bathtub just meant for the kids? In that case, I would put it in the children's bathroom.
Maybe you could create more space by doing without the T-shaped layout? No, the bathtub is meant for us. We don’t actually need the T-shaped layout. We only wanted a built-in shower, which somehow ended up smaller. How could the fixtures be arranged better?
The downstairs shower bathroom is not suitable for seniors with limited mobility (and if you can no longer use the stairs, then you fall into that category). How do you plan to separate the living room?
I think three bathrooms are too many, especially since space is lacking everywhere except in the children's rooms. Be sure to give the children's rooms a window on the opposite side of the house. Especially in summer, if one window is shaded, the other can be opened to bring in light.
I think three bathrooms are too many, especially since space is lacking everywhere except in the children's rooms. Be sure to give the children's rooms a window on the opposite side of the house. Especially in summer, if one window is shaded, the other can be opened to bring in light.
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