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:
We can’t think of everything. We haven’t dealt with the topic yet. But while you are puzzling over decimal places on page 149, these essentials have been discussed multiple times here (in threads only about controlled ventilation systems). You would have just needed to take a quick look over the fence. Simply put, "decentralized" means that such a system must be installed once in every relevant room and operates independently, whereas the central version has only one control unit for the entire house and its function is essentially pooled across all rooms. Heat recovery is therefore much more efficient in a central system, but: central also means a complex network of ductwork running throughout the entire house. That’s why only a dry-lining fearless underdog like your planner could be so naïve as to leave this fundamental decision open until the last minute.
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11ant schrieb:
But while you’re puzzling over 149 pages of decimal places here, such essentials have already been discussed multiple times (in threads dedicated solely to controlled residential ventilation). You just would have had to hop over the fence.I simply missed that. I can’t change it. It’s unfortunate, yes. The decision wasn’t left open until the last minute. It just occurred to us now that we’d prefer to have a central ventilation system.
What do you mean by drywall construction?
Isn’t it possible to install it in the floor structure or the concrete walls? Are there necessarily any boxed-in enclosures if you plan it only after the floor plan is completed?
Currently, the house price includes a decentralized ventilation system without heat recovery.
A central system with heat recovery would mean an additional cost of 9500 euros. Is that price reasonable or excessive?
Shiny86 schrieb:
What do you mean by drywall construction?
Isn’t that usually integrated into the floor structure or the concrete walls? Do you inevitably get any boxed-in areas if you plan it only after the basic layout is finished? Basically, it takes place in the floor structure. But the key difference is whether it’s centralized (which is more complex to channel) or decentralized. And you have a planner who seems unable to mentally convert a centralized distribution (CD) into a decentralized distribution (DD) of the floor below. On the plans, this doesn’t necessarily cause forced drywall reconstructions, but in what will probably be an improvised reality, it does.
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11ant schrieb:
Basically, it all comes down to the floor construction. But central systems are different (= more complex to duct) compared to decentralized ones. And you have a planner who, spatially, can’t properly visualize converting a bathroom downstairs (BD) into a bedroom downstairs (DD). On the plans, this doesn’t necessarily require redoing the drying phase, but in the probably improvised reality it will. He most likely didn’t put much effort into this particular version because he figured it wasn’t worth it. By now, he was probably pretty frustrated with us.
What is your advice? Should we avoid a central system and opt for a decentralized one because the planning is easier?
Everywhere I read that a central system is preferable for new builds.
Shiny86 schrieb:
He was probably quite annoyed with us by now. And now he’s back from vacation and ready for more pestering?
Shiny86 schrieb:
What’s your advice then? To skip the central system and go with a decentralized one because it’s easier to plan? No, the decentralized system isn’t easier to plan: that might be true for the wall openings, but for the overall technical design of the system, it’s actually more complicated. As I already mentioned regarding heat recovery, the central system is more efficient. In my opinion, unless at least 30% (by volume) of the rooms are excluded, decentralized ventilation is advanced nonsense.
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11ant schrieb:
So now he's back from vacation and ready for new annoyances? Since it’s final, maybe he’s putting in more effort to get rid of us?
Does anything negative stand out to you or anyone else about the attached drawings? Are the floor plans with BD/DD realistic?
And once again about the central unit: what is the worst-case scenario if there’s a planning mistake? Why should there be problems with installing it underground? How likely is that and how bad would it look then?
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