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?
ypg schrieb:
I actually think I stopped participating in the discussion because I found debating a raised townhouse rather than a townhouse on a slope completely pointless. No. I think you just found everything annoying here at some point. I can understand that.
matte1987 schrieb:
The decision whether to build a basement or not is so crucial that I personally wouldn’t just add a basement underneath without careful consideration. It opens up completely new possibilities. In principle, yes.
matte1987 schrieb:
This is a prime example of why it’s best to consider the topography of the plot from the very beginning. With a vertical/horizontal height variation of 70/120 cm (about half of it within the building footprint), I didn’t see any topographical indication (and there was no other specific information) that a basement was mandatory. Now I interpret the new information to mean that the load-bearing soil is likely only found at the depth where one would also place the slab foundation if building a basement house. So, similar to a car accident analogy, this would be an “economic necessity basement.”
However, I see first a significant difference between swapping pile foundation and usable basement on one hand and the costs of the previously planned heavy soil removal on the other hand (just the effort for the back-and-forth with the staircase and downpipes alone could have planned a complete holiday bungalow with the same manpower!); and second, I don’t think the effort for a redesign is worthwhile: practically, you only gain space for the underfloor heating manifold installed below ground. The rest of the basement probably wouldn’t be truly usable (digging out daylight wells to relocate a study would make the effort too great again), so overall you would just reorganize a floor plan with two decimeters less in edge length. Then we would be exactly at the point where the original poster soon continued the discussion alone! – so this wouldn’t be an opportunity. If the site allowed for a residential basement and such was desired, the situation would be different – but this is not the case. Moreover, even in the thread https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/efh-mit-satteldach-ohne-keller-feedback-erwuenscht.29243/, the husband eventually took over writing late in the discussion, which unfortunately is not happening here.
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I simply can’t mentally handle starting from zero. I wouldn’t know how, and I no longer have the energy to start over after so much time spent on floor plan adjustments.
We were actually just waiting to build and were expecting the construction kickoff meeting, and now this. I’ve even already planned the kitchen and was about to start planning the laundry area in the utility room.
If anything, it will probably be a usable basement. The utility room will become an office/guest room. It’s just really unfortunate that there are now three downspouts inside. One of them isn’t even in a corner. That’s also problematic.
We were actually just waiting to build and were expecting the construction kickoff meeting, and now this. I’ve even already planned the kitchen and was about to start planning the laundry area in the utility room.
If anything, it will probably be a usable basement. The utility room will become an office/guest room. It’s just really unfortunate that there are now three downspouts inside. One of them isn’t even in a corner. That’s also problematic.
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Alessandro25 Sep 2020 14:31I would also request a detailed comparison of the costs. I can hardly imagine that a basement would cost the same as a fill, given the unsuitable soil conditions.
haydee schrieb:
A usable basement requires a purpose.
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