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?
11ant schrieb:
Well, you’re quite brave, young lady Why isn’t this working?
Maybe I’ll wait until Monday before bothering you all unnecessarily here.
I can understand that nerves are frayed and it’s hard to wait for the weekend. However, the worst-case scenario hasn’t happened yet. That would be if you had already started building. So, nothing has happened so far. As I said, first get the explanation and a proposal with a price, then you can calmly consider what to do next.
OWLer schrieb:
You didn’t commission a soil survey beforehand, did you? I followed this correctly. No, we were told to only commission it once the final site plan was completed. However, it was assumed from the beginning that the soil conditions would be very poor, since the neighbors already had soil surveys done. Also, we have always said that we want the house entrance to be one step above street level. So I don’t understand why a basement wasn’t discussed with us earlier. Instead, it was mentioned in passing that having a basement would be much more expensive. Then it was also said that raising the ground level wouldn’t cost much more than building at street level, since a soakaway would also be expensive.
We are supposed to discuss solutions on Monday. I don’t know what other options there could be. I’m curious.
It’s not the worst-case scenario yet. But it’s frustrating to have to redraw plans again, have the surveyor come back, resubmit the building permit/planning permission, redo the structural engineering, and so on. After the last few months, I finally felt settled with the planning and we thought construction would start in October. We arranged financing, organized construction water and electricity, and I planned the kitchen. And now this!
Of course, we mostly blame ourselves. In hindsight, I would do many things differently as well. But it is what it is. We haven’t delayed the house project at any point for months now and just want to start building.
Regarding financing, the contract with the bank is still with us. We received a good offer but have not signed yet. The offer was arranged by Interhyp over 14 days ago. Does anyone know if there are any fees payable to Interhyp if we decide not to accept the offer?
matte1987 schrieb:
As far as I know, nothing.Also very frustrating because the interest rate has been increased again if we need to arrange new financing. All of that adds extra costs. It’s a whole chain of problems. I’m just really fed up with it.