ᐅ Floor Plan Optimization for Urban Villa + Considerations for Land Elevation
Created on: 31 Jan 2020 13:29
S
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?
kaho674 schrieb:
Yes, don’t forget to get the elevations as well. Yes, I’m now slowly reaching the end. I will include this here when I post.
Curly schrieb:
The window is 1.76m x 1.38m (5 ft 9 in x 4 ft 6 in) and it looks perfectly normal in size. I'm mainly concerned about the floor space. As it is now, it's just right for 40cm (16 inches) shelves. Pax 60cm (24 inches) shelves wouldn't fit. I don't want them either. But that would limit my flexibility.
Shiny86 schrieb:
I saw that in a shop, but I don’t remember which one. Definitely not. You might have seen door leaves for standard doors in that size as stock items, but you can’t just fit them playfully into a frame that is twice as wide because their rebates don’t interlock. At the risk of repeating myself again and again: leave the details to the professionals and keep your inexperienced fingers off.
Shiny86 schrieb:
What do you think about window dimensions? Which window size looks good? Is a west-facing window in the office too large? Only those who remember the south orientation of the floor plan will notice a west-facing window in your office. The tricky part about aesthetics is that almost nothing looks worse than focusing on absolute measurements while ignoring proportions. Based on a lintel height of 226cm (89 inches) and a sill height of 88cm (35 inches), the golden ratio would suggest a width coincidentally of either 88cm (35 inches) or 226cm (89 inches). No questions allowed, see above.
Shiny86 schrieb:
I’m probably going to get told off by 11ant again soon. With that misspelling too, definitely, Shinny!
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
11ant schrieb:
Only those who remember the south orientation of the floor plan will see a west-facing window in your office. The tricky thing about aesthetics is that nothing looks worse than ignoring proportions while focusing solely on absolute dimensions. Starting from a lintel height of 226cm (89 inches) and a sill height of 88cm (35 inches), the golden ratio would suggest a width of either 88cm (35 inches) or 226cm (89 inches) by coincidence as well. No questions for clarification are allowed, see above.
And now with incorrect spelling, definitely, Shinny!
Sorry for the misspelling. By beautiful, I meant beautiful to me personally, not to others, so that it doesn’t look like a storage room. Which exact window size do you recommend? I didn’t understand that.
The floor-to-ceiling windows are all 213cm (84 inches) high. What do you think about that dimension? It’s supposed to be a standard size. In my current apartment, the floor-to-ceiling windows are 220cm (87 inches) high, and they don’t look particularly tall.
What do you think about a hallway that’s 1.62m (5 feet 4 inches) wide? The wardrobe is in a niche now. That would give me 20cm (8 inches) more space to place the TV in the living room. I don’t want to waste too much space on the hallway but also don’t want a narrow corridor. After 3.10m (10 feet 2 inches), it opens up by another 60cm (24 inches) where the stairs are.
@11ant Do you think a doorway with a lintel that is 1.5m (5 feet) wide from the entrance hall to the living area would be feasible from a structural engineering perspective?
From a height of 213 for the floor depths and since you mentioned 126 elsewhere, I assume a windowsill height of 88 and 126 for this window, which would correspond to a width of 76 or 201. I find the lintel height to be the same as the interior doors acceptable; I would raise concerns if it were any lower. I see no issue with a 151 clear opening width here.
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
11ant schrieb:
From a height of 213 for the floor depths and since you mentioned 126 elsewhere, I conclude a sill height of 88 and 126 for this window, which would mean a width of 76 or 201. I find the same lintel height as the interior doors acceptable; I would object if it were lower. I don’t see any problem with a 151 passage width here.Why 151 and not 150 for the passage width? What difference does it make? Otherwise, I would have passed 150 on to the architect, but please keep me from making mistakes. I’ll tell him 151 if it actually matters.
For the cloakroom niche, would you also do 70cm (28 inches) raw construction depth?
Sill height 87 for 1.26 high windows. I’m trying to get the windows to 1.01/1.26 or 2.01/1.26 (the double casement ones). Looks good, right?
Similar topics