ᐅ Floor Plan – Design of a Semi-Detached House with Nearly 200 sqm of Living Space
Created on: 24 Nov 2020 22:45
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musik_de
Hello everyone,
My wife and I have tried to create a desired floor plan based on our requirements.
However, we noticed that the hallway on the upper floor is really large (therefore wasted space). We would like to get your suggestions for improvements.
Thank you in advance for your ideas!
Development Plan/Restrictions
Plot size – 500 square meters (about 5382 square feet)
Slope – no
Site coverage ratio – 0.3
Floor area ratio – 0.4
Building envelope, building line and boundary – building envelope 7.10 x 14 meters (23.3 x 46 feet)
Number of parking spaces – 2 (carport only)
Number of stories – 2 full floors
Roof type – gable
Architectural style – modern
Maximum height limits – 6.50 meters (21 feet)
Owners’ Requirements
Style, roof type, building type – gable roof
Basement, floors – 2 full floors plus basement
Number of people, ages – 5 people (38, 36, 10, 6, 1 years old)
Room requirements on ground floor and upper floor –
Ground floor: living/dining, closed kitchen, office/guest room, WC/bathroom.
Upper floor: master bedroom with dressing room, 2 children’s rooms, children’s bathroom
Office: family use or home office? – home office (space in basement)
Guest sleepers per year – 1 person for 2-3 months
Open or closed architecture – open
Conservative or modern construction style – modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island – no
Number of dining seats – 6 to 10
Fireplace – no
Music/stereo wall – no
Balcony, roof terrace – no
Garage, carport – carport
Vegetable garden, greenhouse – no
House Design
Who created the plan: ourselves
What do you particularly like? Why?
Ground floor: entrance area/guest room
Upper floor: master bedroom with private WC/bathroom, wide hallway
What do you not like? Why?
Basically: very large hallway on the upper floor
Estimated price according to architect/designer: 500,000 (excluding land and additional construction costs)
Personal price limit for the house, including fixtures: 520,000
Preferred heating technology: KfW 40 standard
If you had to give up certain details/fixtures, which ones could you do without?
-Which ones can you not do without? Closed kitchen, guest room
Why is the design the way it is now?
Standard design from the planner? – no
Which wishes from the architect were implemented?
Very large hallway on the upper floor,
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan, summarized in 130 characters?
Should we completely rethink the design of the staircase and the upper floor?
My wife and I have tried to create a desired floor plan based on our requirements.
However, we noticed that the hallway on the upper floor is really large (therefore wasted space). We would like to get your suggestions for improvements.
Thank you in advance for your ideas!
Development Plan/Restrictions
Plot size – 500 square meters (about 5382 square feet)
Slope – no
Site coverage ratio – 0.3
Floor area ratio – 0.4
Building envelope, building line and boundary – building envelope 7.10 x 14 meters (23.3 x 46 feet)
Number of parking spaces – 2 (carport only)
Number of stories – 2 full floors
Roof type – gable
Architectural style – modern
Maximum height limits – 6.50 meters (21 feet)
Owners’ Requirements
Style, roof type, building type – gable roof
Basement, floors – 2 full floors plus basement
Number of people, ages – 5 people (38, 36, 10, 6, 1 years old)
Room requirements on ground floor and upper floor –
Ground floor: living/dining, closed kitchen, office/guest room, WC/bathroom.
Upper floor: master bedroom with dressing room, 2 children’s rooms, children’s bathroom
Office: family use or home office? – home office (space in basement)
Guest sleepers per year – 1 person for 2-3 months
Open or closed architecture – open
Conservative or modern construction style – modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island – no
Number of dining seats – 6 to 10
Fireplace – no
Music/stereo wall – no
Balcony, roof terrace – no
Garage, carport – carport
Vegetable garden, greenhouse – no
House Design
Who created the plan: ourselves
What do you particularly like? Why?
Ground floor: entrance area/guest room
Upper floor: master bedroom with private WC/bathroom, wide hallway
What do you not like? Why?
Basically: very large hallway on the upper floor
Estimated price according to architect/designer: 500,000 (excluding land and additional construction costs)
Personal price limit for the house, including fixtures: 520,000
Preferred heating technology: KfW 40 standard
If you had to give up certain details/fixtures, which ones could you do without?
-Which ones can you not do without? Closed kitchen, guest room
Why is the design the way it is now?
Standard design from the planner? – no
Which wishes from the architect were implemented?
Very large hallway on the upper floor,
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan, summarized in 130 characters?
Should we completely rethink the design of the staircase and the upper floor?
Since you’ve confused me a bit earlier, I have to ask again just to be sure: does this represent your house or the neighbor’s? (Maybe you could show your half of the property in color and the other in gray to make it clearer.) The guest bathroom with an "internal window" as a "house within a house" concept is quite unusual, but the master bathroom designed like the guest bathroom (or old-style narrow bathroom) tops that. I also have questions about the walk-in closet. Where is the roof ridge supposed to run?
I would again suggest accessing the house through a side entrance rather than a front entrance. It seems to me that a fixed idea about cardinal directions is preventing you from realizing that the current layout forces the rooms into an awkward axis, which continues inside the rooms. To put it figuratively, the rooms are being strangled by the umbilical cord here.
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I would again suggest accessing the house through a side entrance rather than a front entrance. It seems to me that a fixed idea about cardinal directions is preventing you from realizing that the current layout forces the rooms into an awkward axis, which continues inside the rooms. To put it figuratively, the rooms are being strangled by the umbilical cord here.
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If I confused you, that was completely unintentional. The pictures in my previous post are the plans for my house.
I tried the layout with the entrance facing east, but I wasn’t able to develop a feasible plan. Maybe you could share how you would approach it?
Regarding the upper floor, I also don’t want a gallery bathroom, but is there any other option within the existing floor plan?
If I confused you, that was completely unintentional. The pictures in my previous post are the plans for my house.
I tried the layout with the entrance facing east, but I wasn’t able to develop a feasible plan. Maybe you could share how you would approach it?
Regarding the upper floor, I also don’t want a gallery bathroom, but is there any other option within the existing floor plan?
musik_de schrieb:
I tried the plan with the entrance facing east but couldn’t come up with a feasible layout. [...] but is there another option within the existing floor plan? In the shown orientation, I don’t see the floor plan getting significantly worse; otherwise, I wouldn’t insist so much on relocating the entrance. Please show the plan you were not satisfied with. My question about the ridge orientation remains unanswered.
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11ant schrieb:
My question about the ridge direction remains unanswered.According to the development plan:"The main ridge direction should run along the longer side of the main buildings."
11ant schrieb:
In the orientation shown, I don’t see the floor plan becoming significantly worse; otherwise, I wouldn’t insist so much on relocating the entrance. Show me the plan you were not satisfied with. My question about the ridge direction remains unanswered.If the entrance is on the east side, the main issue was that the dining room and living room are positioned on the southwest-northeast side, which is not optimal since the west side only has one wall.musik_de schrieb:
"The main ridge direction should run along the longer side of the main buildings."With dimensions of 14.4 compared to 14.0 meters (47.2 compared to 45.9 feet) for the entire semi-detached house, this clearly means an east-west orientation.musik_de schrieb:
If the entrance is on the east side, the main issue was that the dining room and living room are located along the southwest-northeast side,Then keep working on it and come up with a better layout. It doesn’t have to be perfect on the first try. I say: as long as the access route does not further divide the already narrow house in width (and also leads more directly to the central "staircase" shorter paths allow for more compact rooms. The only fundamentally worse room shape than a rigid square is a cramped corridor. By relocating the entrance, you would stop preventing more favorable room proportions. If animal protection laws applied to room floor proportions, this layout would land you in jail ;-) Seriously: as much as I, 11ant, know about fragile matters, this access concept ruins the floor plan. Even in post #1, the upper floor layout for the master suite turned out significantly worse. I stick to my opinion: placing the entrance on the narrow side here is the deathblow to the floor plan arrangement.https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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