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:
Yes, it’s hard to judge. I have been to show homes, but they always go overboard with windows there. We don’t like having windows behind us. Objectively speaking, could what we planned be TOO dark?
At one point, we considered making the patio doors into a 3m (10 feet) element, but since I want a 3.6m (12 feet) couch, part of the 3m (10 feet) element would be blocked by the sofa, and I didn’t want it to look like a planning mistake or a wrong sofa choice. If you already know roughly how wide your couch will be, I would adjust the windows accordingly. That’s what we did as well. I think it looks odd if the last part of the sofa is in front of a window.
Whether it will be TOO dark is hard to say. There will also be light coming from the west side, but how much of that reaches the seating area is difficult to estimate. Ideally, you would have an additional window on the east side.
So, the length is 9.7 meters (32 feet). I’m not sure how many meters the west-facing window covers.
Attached is an example from the current apartment. It gets bright enough here. On the plan, left is west and right is east.
The only difference compared to the house is that the windows are opposite each other, but the total window dimensions are similar.
Can I use this as a reference point or not, because the windows face each other in the apartment?
Attached is an example from the current apartment. It gets bright enough here. On the plan, left is west and right is east.
The only difference compared to the house is that the windows are opposite each other, but the total window dimensions are similar.
Can I use this as a reference point or not, because the windows face each other in the apartment?
Change the two 1m (3.3 feet) windows in the living room to 2m (6.6 feet) windows. This will enhance the important symmetry with the upper floor, provide plenty of natural light, and it doesn’t really matter whether the sofa is in front of a 1m or 2m window. I would also make all of them operable. Even if you don’t use them now, this might look completely different in 20 years, and maybe the sofa will face the window because TVs like today simply won’t exist anymore...
Shiny86 schrieb:
Thanks for all your feedback. I have finalized the planning. I want to thank everyone for the active participation. I will definitely stay a member of the forum, but I won’t be active in this thread anymore. Is the floor plan the same as on page 158, or have you made any changes?
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