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?
Shiny86 schrieb:
I mean the home seller. She also calls herself a home planner and created the preliminary design before handing it over to the architect.
And yes, he is just a draftsman who draws what he is told, without any original ideas.
We can’t afford an independent architect. Basically, thanks to you all, we at least know what we want and what is important, even if I don’t take everything into account.
Here, we have a rough structural height of 2.20 m (7 ft 3 in), from floor to top edge.
I understand these 2.13 m (7 ft) to be rough structural dimensions. In the catalog, in the floor plans next to the windows, it says 1.76/2.13, for example. And see my first post #1. It’s also shown like this in the floor plan. What does that mean? Does 2.13 actually mean a higher measurement? It was the same for us.
The architect was very unmotivated. In hindsight, it might have been better to hire an independent architect if you have no experience at all. But this forum helped a lot as well. Sometimes you have your own (not always ideal) ideas, which probably only a great floor plan from a good architect can break through...
In our plan, for example, the rough structural height of the floor-to-ceiling windows was 2.38 m (7 ft 10 in), measured from the top edge of the raw floor (OKRF). Then the floor construction of 15.5 cm (6 inches) was deducted, so that we now have about 2.22 m (7 ft 3 in) of “visible” window height. It shouldn’t be less than that.
Shiny86 schrieb:
He is only a draftsman and draws whatever he is told, without his own ideas.The hand that feeds him has different interests — and part of those is that the draftsman doesn’t have his own ideas :-(Shiny86 schrieb:
We don’t have the budget for an independent architect.All inclusive doesn’t mean “free,” it just means “included in the price.” So, you do have the money—and it’s being taken from your pocket—but it’s just not listed separately on the receipt.Shiny86 schrieb:
In the catalog... from whom exactly, has that been mentioned yet?Shiny86 schrieb:
That then benefits the bedroom and maybe a wider shower in the master bathroom.I’m not quite following that at the moment.Shiny86 schrieb:
We’re giving up 15-20cm (6-8 inches) from the living area.You really shouldn’t put measurements down until the rooms are defined in the schematic design or if the building envelope is severely constrained. Otherwise, you just fall into this silly temptation to redistribute from an imaginary total that, in reality, isn’t fixed at all.https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
Yes, you’re right about the measurements.
I would share the company name via private message, but I don’t think I’m allowed to send private messages yet.
We are considering moving the staircase up by 20cm (8 inches), which would make the rooms below larger. Or do you think the current layout works well?
I also think there isn’t enough space for the new T-shaped design. Does anyone have an idea for a solution without the T layout?
I would share the company name via private message, but I don’t think I’m allowed to send private messages yet.
We are considering moving the staircase up by 20cm (8 inches), which would make the rooms below larger. Or do you think the current layout works well?
I also think there isn’t enough space for the new T-shaped design. Does anyone have an idea for a solution without the T layout?
11ant schrieb:
All inclusive does not mean "free," but simply "included in the price." In other words, you have the money—and it is taken from your pocket—but it just does not appear as a separate item on the receipt.That's right. We can't afford a second architect anymore. That's what I mean.
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