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?
My husband didn’t want a large window in the guest bathroom. Although it’s for guests, we will use it frequently ourselves. I’m not going to walk upstairs just for that when I’m on the ground floor.
But I don’t need much light there for applying makeup—only for washing hands and using the toilet.
The window faces northwest.
Does frosted glass make the window much darker?
We have also planned a 2-meter (6.5 feet) wide terrace French door. Is it worth converting that into a lift-and-slide door at 2 meters (6.5 feet) wide, or would the opening be too small? From what size do sliding doors make sense?
But I don’t need much light there for applying makeup—only for washing hands and using the toilet.
The window faces northwest.
Does frosted glass make the window much darker?
We have also planned a 2-meter (6.5 feet) wide terrace French door. Is it worth converting that into a lift-and-slide door at 2 meters (6.5 feet) wide, or would the opening be too small? From what size do sliding doors make sense?
I think sliding doors only make sense starting from 2.5m (ideally even 3m).
With 2m, you slide one panel in front of the other, so the passage is only 1m wide. That wouldn’t justify the extra cost for me.
Instead, consider a French window / tilt-and-turn window without a mullion. When you open both sashes, you get a full 2m clear opening.
With 2m, you slide one panel in front of the other, so the passage is only 1m wide. That wouldn’t justify the extra cost for me.
Instead, consider a French window / tilt-and-turn window without a mullion. When you open both sashes, you get a full 2m clear opening.
Crossy schrieb:
I think sliding doors only make sense starting from 2.5m (actually more like 3m).
With 2m, you’re just sliding one panel in front of the other. That means the opening is only 1m wide. For me, that’s not worth the extra cost.
You might want to consider a French window instead; if you open both sashes, you get a 2m wide opening. Exactly, a French window is currently planned.
So I guess we’ll keep it that way. I should have thought this through earlier.
Honestly, what is wrong with me?
I always regret everything or wish I had done things differently after planning. My husband already says building a house with me is impossible. Our general contractor will probably send us to the moon soon anyway. We basically can’t make any more changes. And I have trouble sleeping because I keep worrying about our windows and their sizes. It’s completely crazy.
At the beginning, the house designer only recommended small windows: 76cm (30 inches) and 88cm (35 inches) wide for single-sash windows, and 1.51m (5 feet) and 1.76m (5 feet 9 inches) wide for double-sash windows. Choosing windows 1m (3 feet 3 inches) and 2m (6 feet 7 inches) wide felt very bold to us back then. But those aren’t even big windows. Now I’m afraid it will be really dull and too little natural light. Oh man.
Also, I now regret that we didn’t plan a sliding door. It felt somehow too modern for us because we weren’t familiar with it. We planned a lot just based on what we knew and couldn’t step out of our comfort zone. And now it’s done.
opalau schrieb:
For our 4m (13 ft) sliding door, the clear opening width is 1.79m (5 ft 10.5 in). And that’s without any gap to prevent finger trapping, which would reduce it by a few centimeters. You can figure out how much would be left for a 2m (6 ft 7 in) door… With our floor plan, we probably wouldn’t have been able to get a reasonable width anyway.
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