ᐅ Floor Plan Optimization for Urban Villa + Considerations for Land Elevation

Created on: 31 Jan 2020 13:29

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?

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?

Floor plan of a single-family house: living/dining area, kitchen, hallway, storage room, cloakroom, WC.

Floor plan of a family home: CHILD 1, CHILD 2, PARENTS, WALK-IN CLOSET, BATHROOM, SHOWER/BATHROOM, HALLWAY.

Architectural drawing: two-story residential house with garage; southwest and northeast views.

Two facade views of a house: northwest and southeast with roof, windows, terrace, and garage.

Shiny868 Aug 2020 19:10

#1081

Quick question: The architect planned our terrace too large in the building permit documents. The floor area ratio was fine, but apparently, there are restrictions in the zoning plan that the architect was not aware of. All future neighbors who already have their building permits also can’t have large terraces and apparently had similar issues. For example, the terrace can only be half the length of the house.

So the terrace had to be redesigned, and the surveyor had to correct the site plan.
Now we have received the surveyor’s invoice—about 250 euros.
We had actually already paid the surveyor for the site plan, but now he is charging for 2 hours of office work due to the correction plus costs for producing the revised site plan.
We wanted the terrace to be as large as possible, but only within the allowed limits and following the zoning plan to keep the simplified approval process.
We didn’t mess this up, did we?
Are we responsible for paying this, or should the general contractor cover it?

K1300S8 Aug 2020 20:24

#1082

Shiny86 schrieb:

Restrictions that were not known to the architect.

Great architect. You probably hire the surveyor yourselves, so you will need to pay for that as well. However, I would try to recover the cost from the "architect."

11ant8 Aug 2020 22:11

#1083

And now it probably isn’t symmetrical anymore either

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Piotr198110 Aug 2020 19:12

#1084

11ant schrieb:

Secondly, I learned the day before yesterday that this is probably just an ego problem of mine, and first of all, unfortunately, it doesn’t help anyway.

When the Vorwerk representative and Jehovah’s Witnesses are at the door, you escape through the patio door – whether it slides or swings open – which is more convenient than going through the window, even if it were widened further.

I don’t believe that, see:

Here: https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/lichtplanung-deckenspots-eg-og.34255/ you’ll find a rather detailed recent thread on this topic. Unfortunately, there are many “planners” who pick up money lying on the ground again and basically just draw lamp shopping lists onto the floor plans. But that is a wide topic that would warrant another four to five hundred posts just for you – and then we still haven’t said a word about your carport and your garden :-( :-( :-(

@11ant
Can you post the link to the lighting planning again? This one unfortunately no longer works. Best regards and thanks

11ant10 Aug 2020 19:30

#1085

Piotr1981 schrieb:

Can you repost the link to the lighting plan? The one here no longer works.

So, it still doesn’t work. There’s some kind of technical glitch in the forum software that alters the link. When you click the link, the "WWW" is converted back to "www," but "Threads" is not changed to "threads." So: just click the link and then manually change the "T" to a "t" :-(
They could prioritize user-friendliness more, but apparently they don’t have to. “Well, that’s just how it is,” as my former mayor used to say.

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Shiny8624 Sep 2020 16:33

#1086

Haven't posted here for a long time.

Does anyone know if a new building permit / planning permission is required if we decide to build with a basement after all, or is a simple modification request enough?

Apparently, the excavation work is very expensive. We are being invited to a meeting with the construction company because they want to confirm if we really want to build as planned. It might be possible to build with a basement for about the same cost.

I’m really frustrated. Why are they bringing this up so late? Is that normal?

ᐅ Floor Plan Optimization for Urban Villa + Considerations for Land Elevation

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