ᐅ Floor Plan Design: Orientation of a Single-Family Home and Optimization
Created on: 28 Jul 2023 21:17
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Häuslebauer13228 Jul 2023 21:17Hello community,
we are complete beginners and hope for your help.
We are currently planning a single-family house (approx. 200m2 (2,150 sq ft)). We own a plot on the edge of town (with a nice view to the east and south) and have worked with a building designer to create two floor plans (one oriented mainly to the south, the other mainly to the east), but we are unsure which variant to choose regarding the cardinal directions and the plot.
We would really appreciate your opinions, ideas, and suggestions for improvement.
Thank you very much in advance 🙂
Here are the details:
Zoning Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: 1,100m2 (12,000 sq ft)
Slope: no
Site coverage ratio: 0.35
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: 2 full floors
Roof type: gable roof 18-30°; hip roof 18-30°; shed roof 2-15° (roof types of main and secondary buildings must be coordinated)
Other requirements: rounding of the town edge, compensation area factor 0.4 (plot boundary will be landscaped)
Client Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: modern, single-family house, gable or hip roof
Basement, floors: no basement, 2 full floors
Number of people, ages: 2 adults + 2 children (3 and 1 year old), possibly a third child
Space requirements on ground floor: shower bathroom, open kitchen-dining-living area with fireplace and large windows/glass fronts towards the view, utility/mudroom with access to garage, guest room, pantry, entrance area
Upper floor: master bedroom with dressing room, 2 children’s rooms, 1 office (which may later be used as a third child’s room), bathroom, possibly storage room
Office: family use or home office? Initially home office, possibly later a third child’s room
Overnight guests per year: regular visits from friends/grandparents
Open or closed architecture: open kitchen-dining-living area, otherwise rather closed
Conservative or modern construction: modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: open kitchen with island
Number of dining seats: 8
Fireplace: yes
Music/speaker wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: garage with 2 parking spaces
Garden for vegetables, greenhouse: no
Other wishes/particularities/daily routine, also reasons why some features are desired or not:
- spacious utility room (also for hanging laundry if needed)
- access from garage to house via utility room (to change work clothes) – technical room in garage – possibly bathroom via utility room for laundry chute
- plenty of storage space for the children
House Design
Who created the design: building designer with input of own ideas
What do you like in particular? Why?: orientation of the main rooms towards the nicest sides
What do you not like? Why?
Variant 1: - main entrance not facing the street (would that be sensible or not?)
- no terrace option on the west side
Variant 2: - relatively small kitchen/dining/living area
- orientation towards the east
Cost estimate according to architect/designer: not available yet
Personal budget for house including fixtures: 550,000–600,000
Preferred heating technology: connect to existing heating network
If you had to give up something, which details/features
- could you give up: laundry chute, direct access from garage to the house (then with a side entrance)
- could you not give up: open living-dining-kitchen area, guest room on ground floor
Why is the design as it is now? For example
Standard design from the designer? No!
Which corresponding/wishes were implemented by the architect?
What do you consider particularly good or bad about it?
Not a standard design, collaboration and an attempt to accommodate all our wishes as best and cost-efficiently as possible. Lots of window area facing southeast.
What is the most important/basic question regarding the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?
Would you choose variant 1 (south-facing, still nice view but more towards the village) or variant 2 (best view but more towards northeast)?
Is the orientation of rooms, garage, and terrace in relation to cardinal directions sensible?
What suggestions for improvements or optimizations can you give us?
we are complete beginners and hope for your help.
We are currently planning a single-family house (approx. 200m2 (2,150 sq ft)). We own a plot on the edge of town (with a nice view to the east and south) and have worked with a building designer to create two floor plans (one oriented mainly to the south, the other mainly to the east), but we are unsure which variant to choose regarding the cardinal directions and the plot.
We would really appreciate your opinions, ideas, and suggestions for improvement.
Thank you very much in advance 🙂
Here are the details:
Zoning Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: 1,100m2 (12,000 sq ft)
Slope: no
Site coverage ratio: 0.35
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: 2 full floors
Roof type: gable roof 18-30°; hip roof 18-30°; shed roof 2-15° (roof types of main and secondary buildings must be coordinated)
Other requirements: rounding of the town edge, compensation area factor 0.4 (plot boundary will be landscaped)
Client Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: modern, single-family house, gable or hip roof
Basement, floors: no basement, 2 full floors
Number of people, ages: 2 adults + 2 children (3 and 1 year old), possibly a third child
Space requirements on ground floor: shower bathroom, open kitchen-dining-living area with fireplace and large windows/glass fronts towards the view, utility/mudroom with access to garage, guest room, pantry, entrance area
Upper floor: master bedroom with dressing room, 2 children’s rooms, 1 office (which may later be used as a third child’s room), bathroom, possibly storage room
Office: family use or home office? Initially home office, possibly later a third child’s room
Overnight guests per year: regular visits from friends/grandparents
Open or closed architecture: open kitchen-dining-living area, otherwise rather closed
Conservative or modern construction: modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: open kitchen with island
Number of dining seats: 8
Fireplace: yes
Music/speaker wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: garage with 2 parking spaces
Garden for vegetables, greenhouse: no
Other wishes/particularities/daily routine, also reasons why some features are desired or not:
- spacious utility room (also for hanging laundry if needed)
- access from garage to house via utility room (to change work clothes) – technical room in garage – possibly bathroom via utility room for laundry chute
- plenty of storage space for the children
House Design
Who created the design: building designer with input of own ideas
What do you like in particular? Why?: orientation of the main rooms towards the nicest sides
What do you not like? Why?
Variant 1: - main entrance not facing the street (would that be sensible or not?)
- no terrace option on the west side
Variant 2: - relatively small kitchen/dining/living area
- orientation towards the east
Cost estimate according to architect/designer: not available yet
Personal budget for house including fixtures: 550,000–600,000
Preferred heating technology: connect to existing heating network
If you had to give up something, which details/features
- could you give up: laundry chute, direct access from garage to the house (then with a side entrance)
- could you not give up: open living-dining-kitchen area, guest room on ground floor
Why is the design as it is now? For example
Standard design from the designer? No!
Which corresponding/wishes were implemented by the architect?
What do you consider particularly good or bad about it?
Not a standard design, collaboration and an attempt to accommodate all our wishes as best and cost-efficiently as possible. Lots of window area facing southeast.
What is the most important/basic question regarding the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?
Would you choose variant 1 (south-facing, still nice view but more towards the village) or variant 2 (best view but more towards northeast)?
Is the orientation of rooms, garage, and terrace in relation to cardinal directions sensible?
What suggestions for improvements or optimizations can you give us?
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Schorsch_baut28 Jul 2023 22:16I cannot imagine that the budget will be sufficient. Three full bathrooms, a large kitchen, a fireplace, and many windows and space are all significant cost drivers.
… what you typically see:
The fireplace or the tall structure appears to be a disruptive element and does not add any positive value to the space. On the contrary.
Not only is a small coat rack missing, but there is also insufficient space for movement and storage for the planned 5 people, roughly equivalent to 3 linear meters of wardrobe space.
Is the garage placed on the west side because of the view? Where exactly does this view go?
The technical equipment located outside the thermal envelope and several meters away from the house? I would generally not plan it that way. It is neither efficient nor cost-effective.
The budget does not reflect the wishes either, sorry.
€3500 per square meter (approximately $370 per square foot) for the requirements and €60,000 (approximately $64,000) for the double garage would be my estimate. Plus additional construction-related costs, etc.
The fireplace or the tall structure appears to be a disruptive element and does not add any positive value to the space. On the contrary.
Not only is a small coat rack missing, but there is also insufficient space for movement and storage for the planned 5 people, roughly equivalent to 3 linear meters of wardrobe space.
Is the garage placed on the west side because of the view? Where exactly does this view go?
The technical equipment located outside the thermal envelope and several meters away from the house? I would generally not plan it that way. It is neither efficient nor cost-effective.
The budget does not reflect the wishes either, sorry.
€3500 per square meter (approximately $370 per square foot) for the requirements and €60,000 (approximately $64,000) for the double garage would be my estimate. Plus additional construction-related costs, etc.
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xMisterDx28 Jul 2023 22:52You can dismiss that.
Seriously, right now you can get a 150m² (1,615 sq ft) turnkey house with one bathroom for around 330,000 EUR. Scaling that up to your requirements, just the house alone easily reaches 500,000 EUR, plus high-end finishes, plus kitchen, plus furniture (?), plus additional construction costs... plus a garage... and then you still have to reasonably develop a 1,100m² (11,840 sq ft) plot of land...
In the end, you’re looking at a figure starting with a 7.
Seriously, right now you can get a 150m² (1,615 sq ft) turnkey house with one bathroom for around 330,000 EUR. Scaling that up to your requirements, just the house alone easily reaches 500,000 EUR, plus high-end finishes, plus kitchen, plus furniture (?), plus additional construction costs... plus a garage... and then you still have to reasonably develop a 1,100m² (11,840 sq ft) plot of land...
In the end, you’re looking at a figure starting with a 7.
Häuslebauer132 schrieb:
We are complete beginners and hope for your help.
We are currently planning a single-family house (about 200m2 (2150 sq ft)). We have a plot of land on the outskirts of town (with a nice view to the east and south) and have now designed two floor plans with the help of a draftsman. Do you happen to know the same draftsman as @HausBaus https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/grundrissplanung-optimierung-einfamilienhaus-ohne-keller.45778/?
200 m2 (2150 sq ft) is a size where you can already save a lot by choosing a draftsman as your planner ;-)
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