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?
Curly schrieb:
How high will your ceilings be? That way, you can figure out how much space is left for the window.Ground floor 2.55 m (8 ft 4 in) and upper floor 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in).
How tall can the windows be then?
11ant schrieb:
Could it be that you have never seen a shell construction in your life, and even less the profile of a masonry unit with a toothed joint? – we are talking about BRM six units, the nominal rough opening size is 151, and I will not repeat it again: there is not a single centimeter in the shell construction, for goodness’ sake! I’ve only seen one once. I’m actually not familiar with this. I just want to make sure that doors can be installed easily later if needed.
Shiny86 schrieb:
I just want to make sure that, if necessary, doors can be installed without any problems later on. Construction workers use chisels more recklessly than burglars.
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11ant schrieb:
Construction workers use chisels more shamelessly than burglars Well, I always thought that if there’s too much masonry, it can’t just be removed. Like I said, I have no idea.
Oh, and about the hallway leading to the living area. If the wall is load-bearing, you can't remove it without a lintel, right?
What do you think about the ceiling height?
The ground floor is 2.55 m (8 ft 4 in) and the upper floor is 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in). Do you think that’s okay? Or what would you recommend as a minimum?
In a conversation with my husband, it turned out that the interior doors will probably only be 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) high. That sounds low and probably is. Here in our apartment, we have 2.13 m (7 ft) doors.
I consider that the minimum.
There are also doors with a height of 2.26 m (7 ft 5 in) according to DIN 18100.
Would that be too tall for our ceiling height? What advice do you have?
The ground floor is 2.55 m (8 ft 4 in) and the upper floor is 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in). Do you think that’s okay? Or what would you recommend as a minimum?
In a conversation with my husband, it turned out that the interior doors will probably only be 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) high. That sounds low and probably is. Here in our apartment, we have 2.13 m (7 ft) doors.
I consider that the minimum.
There are also doors with a height of 2.26 m (7 ft 5 in) according to DIN 18100.
Would that be too tall for our ceiling height? What advice do you have?
That mostly comes down to personal preference, what you want, can afford, or are willing to do, and what the maximum overall height allows.
Our glass is already 2.89 m (9 ft 6 in) tall.
With a rough ceiling height of around 2.50 m (8 ft 2 in), you end up with about 2.20 m (7 ft 3 in) clear height, depending on the floor and ceiling construction.
In a typical framed system, you also have to account for the frame itself (and potentially shading elements if not solved otherwise).
A rough estimate for the maximum glass height is around 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in).
Personally, I prefer slightly higher ceilings, but that also comes with some disadvantages...
Our glass is already 2.89 m (9 ft 6 in) tall.
With a rough ceiling height of around 2.50 m (8 ft 2 in), you end up with about 2.20 m (7 ft 3 in) clear height, depending on the floor and ceiling construction.
In a typical framed system, you also have to account for the frame itself (and potentially shading elements if not solved otherwise).
A rough estimate for the maximum glass height is around 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in).
Personally, I prefer slightly higher ceilings, but that also comes with some disadvantages...
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