ᐅ One-story building design with a pitched roof > attic or loft?
Created on: 7 Feb 2021 13:05
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Musterfrau
Musterfrau7 Feb 2021 13:05Hello everyone,
I have a plot with the following strict requirements.
Number of floors: I
Knee wall height: 50cm (20 inches)
Roof pitch: 30 degrees
No dormers allowed
What confuses me about these requirements is:
What do you call the floor above the ground floor?
Is it considered an attic floor or just an attic?
Or is it still simply a house with a pitched roof despite these tight restrictions?
Where you can normally live upstairs and just have to stay below 75% of the usable floor area (which wouldn’t be an issue here).
I’m also wondering if there are minimum room height requirements for the attic floor.
That would bring us to this point:
Or is this space, because of these regulations, only to be considered an attic?
"An attic is considered a full living space if half or more of the floor area has a ceiling height of at least 2.30 meters (7.5 feet)"
If the latter is true, then with the knee wall height and roof pitch, it would be very difficult or almost impossible to reach “half of the floor area” with the required headroom.
Just one last question:
Since dormers are not allowed, do you think I could add a gable end?
Thank you for reading
I have a plot with the following strict requirements.
Number of floors: I
Knee wall height: 50cm (20 inches)
Roof pitch: 30 degrees
No dormers allowed
What confuses me about these requirements is:
What do you call the floor above the ground floor?
Is it considered an attic floor or just an attic?
Or is it still simply a house with a pitched roof despite these tight restrictions?
Where you can normally live upstairs and just have to stay below 75% of the usable floor area (which wouldn’t be an issue here).
I’m also wondering if there are minimum room height requirements for the attic floor.
That would bring us to this point:
Or is this space, because of these regulations, only to be considered an attic?
"An attic is considered a full living space if half or more of the floor area has a ceiling height of at least 2.30 meters (7.5 feet)"
If the latter is true, then with the knee wall height and roof pitch, it would be very difficult or almost impossible to reach “half of the floor area” with the required headroom.
Just one last question:
Since dormers are not allowed, do you think I could add a gable end?
Thank you for reading
Musterfrau8 Feb 2021 09:40Does anyone have an idea?
Or do you think I’m just driving myself crazy here?
Have a great start to the week
Or do you think I’m just driving myself crazy here?
Have a great start to the week
What has been built in the surrounding area?
You are confusing a full storey with fully usable living space.
The attic is not considered a full storey unless minimum requirements are met. This varies depending on local regulations; in your case, 50% must not exceed 2.3 m (7.5 feet) in height. If this is the case, it is not considered a full storey. Therefore, only the ground floor counts as a full storey, not the attic.
You are confusing a full storey with fully usable living space.
The attic is not considered a full storey unless minimum requirements are met. This varies depending on local regulations; in your case, 50% must not exceed 2.3 m (7.5 feet) in height. If this is the case, it is not considered a full storey. Therefore, only the ground floor counts as a full storey, not the attic.
Based on the information provided, I see no reason why the gable roof cannot be constructed like one over an L-shaped bungalow. For someone without experience, you understood that quite quickly ;-)
Tell us more about the plot; here is the questionnaire: https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/grundrissplanung-unbedingt-vor-beitrag-erstellung-lesen.11714/
In the drawing, it is a knee wall, apparently at a height typical for Franconia or following its local example, and unfortunately, some zoning regulations add to the confusion with terminology.
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
Tell us more about the plot; here is the questionnaire: https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/grundrissplanung-unbedingt-vor-beitrag-erstellung-lesen.11714/
icandoit schrieb:
I’m wondering if, for you, the knee wall and the dwarf wall are the same thing?
In the drawing, it is a knee wall, apparently at a height typical for Franconia or following its local example, and unfortunately, some zoning regulations add to the confusion with terminology.
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
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