ᐅ Floor Plan of a Single-Family Home on a Sloped Site with Basement

Development Plan/Restrictions
Plot size 2000m² (21,500 sq ft)
Slope approx. 10%, see attachment
Site coverage ratio
Floor space index max. 2 full stories
Building window, building line, and boundary see attachment
Edge development
Number of parking spaces
Number of floors
Roof shape free
Architectural style free
Orientation free
Maximum heights/limits 12m (39 feet)
Further requirements

Client Requirements
Architectural style, roof shape, building type: Gable roof
Basement, floors: Basement
Number of people, age: 5 (children <= 6 years)
Space requirements on ground floor and upper floor
Office: Family use or home office?: Two offices required
Overnight guests per year: Offices should be able to be repurposed.
Open or closed architecture: rather open
Conservative or modern construction: functional
Open kitchen, cooking island: open
Minimum dining seats: 5
Fireplace: no
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace facing north and northwest
Garage, carport yes, not included in plan
Utility garden, greenhouse
Additional wishes/special features/daily routine, also including reasons why some options are excluded

House Design
Origin of the design: by me, before meeting with architect
What do you particularly like? Why?
What do you dislike? Why?
Price estimate according to architect/planner:
I expect 3000 to 3100 EUR / m² (279 to 289 USD / sq ft)
Personal price limit for the house, including equipment: 900,000 EUR plus garage
Preferred heating technology: heat pump with horizontal trench collector

Why is the design the way it is now? e.g.:
We have now drawn several floor plans. All our ideas and priorities have been included. We would like your opinions on where you see potential for improvement. The building’s layout is very important to us. We deliberately avoid dormers, bay windows, etc.

Attached you will find the floor plan and site plan. (The house is to be built parallel and as close as possible to the street)
The difference between two contour lines is 1m (3.3 feet).
The arrangement of the rooms is intentionally chosen. Please do not discuss that the children’s rooms are on the north side.
Currently undeveloped, entirely meadow.

We would greatly appreciate your feedback and even more your suggestions for improvements.

On one hand, it would likely be helpful for others if you could mark the house along with the ancillary buildings on the site plan.

On the other hand:

Vivusorg schrieb:

The room layout was intentionally chosen this way. Please no discussions about the children’s rooms being located on the north side.

Vivusorg schrieb:

We would really appreciate opinions and even more so suggestions for improvement.

How do “no discussions” fit together with “suggestions for improvement”? Please watch your choice of words: most people here have more experience than you.

ypg schrieb:

Firstly, it would probably be helpful for others if you could mark the house and outbuildings on the site plan.
Secondly:

How do “no discussions” and “suggestions for improvement” go together?
Please watch your choice of words: most people here have more experience than you.

If the orientation of the children's rooms is your only criticism, I’m glad.
And yes, you are right, we are not architects. However, we have ideas and would like to benefit from your experience.

In my original post, I only described it. Attached you will find a picture showing how I would position the building.
Thank you for the suggestion:

ypg schrieb:

For one, it would probably be helpful for others if you could mark the house and its outbuildings on the site plan.

I don’t understand the staircase... how can the staircase exit on the upper floor be arranged with this stair layout?

kbt09 schrieb:

I don’t understand the staircase... how can the staircase exit on the upper floor be arranged given the staircase layout?

It’s supposed to be a quarter-turn staircase with two equal flights.

Vivusorg schrieb:

If the alignment of the children’s rooms is your only criticism, I’m glad.

Probably not. But it’s also about a tone used with children, not appropriate in a forum with adults.

Vivusorg schrieb:

And yes, you’re right, we are not architects. But we have ideas and would like to benefit from your experience.

That’s why I asked for the site plan: are you basically placing the house in mid-air?!
I strongly advise you to stop dealing with naive, amateur ideas and consult an architect experienced with hillside sites.

Vivusorg schrieb:

Who created the design: me, before consulting an architect

Who is that? Why doesn’t he design according to your room requirements?