Hello everyone,
We have created the following floor plans. Do you see any potential for improvement or even major mistakes/misplanning in these layouts?
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Development plan / restrictions
Plot size: 671 sqm (7,224 sq ft)
Slope: no
Floor area ratio (FAR): 0.15 (maximum building footprint 100.6 sqm / 1,083 sq ft)
Gross floor area ratio (GFAR): 0.3
Building zone, building line, and boundary:
Number of parking spaces: 2 required (therefore double garage, minimum garage parking space width/length 2.4 / 5 m (7.9 / 16.4 ft))
Number of floors: 2
Roof type: cold roof with a 25° (25°) hip roof, used as storage space
Maximum buildable area including ancillary structures: 150.9 sqm (1,624 sq ft) (floor area ratio 0.15 plus 50%)
Owners’ requirements
Style, roof shape, building type: urban villa, due to storage possibility in the attic and maximum living area utilization within the given plot size
Basement, floors: no basement (budget constraints), 2 full floors due to development plan
Number of occupants, ages: 2 adults, 2 children (10 and 6 years old)
Office/guest room: family use, guest room for 5 overnight guests per year
Modern construction method: yes
Open kitchen, kitchen island: yes
Fireplace: no
Balcony: no
Garage, carport: garage 4 x 8 m (13.1 x 26.2 ft)
House design
Designer: myself, using Sweet Home software
What do you particularly like? Spacious ground floor, large children’s rooms, large entrance area
What do you dislike? Double half-turn staircase
Price estimate according to architect/planner:
Personal price limit for the house including fixtures:
Preferred heating system: ground source heat pump
We have created the following floor plans. Do you see any potential for improvement or even major mistakes/misplanning in these layouts?
Development plan / restrictions
Plot size: 671 sqm (7,224 sq ft)
Slope: no
Floor area ratio (FAR): 0.15 (maximum building footprint 100.6 sqm / 1,083 sq ft)
Gross floor area ratio (GFAR): 0.3
Building zone, building line, and boundary:
Number of parking spaces: 2 required (therefore double garage, minimum garage parking space width/length 2.4 / 5 m (7.9 / 16.4 ft))
Number of floors: 2
Roof type: cold roof with a 25° (25°) hip roof, used as storage space
Maximum buildable area including ancillary structures: 150.9 sqm (1,624 sq ft) (floor area ratio 0.15 plus 50%)
Owners’ requirements
Style, roof shape, building type: urban villa, due to storage possibility in the attic and maximum living area utilization within the given plot size
Basement, floors: no basement (budget constraints), 2 full floors due to development plan
Number of occupants, ages: 2 adults, 2 children (10 and 6 years old)
Office/guest room: family use, guest room for 5 overnight guests per year
Modern construction method: yes
Open kitchen, kitchen island: yes
Fireplace: no
Balcony: no
Garage, carport: garage 4 x 8 m (13.1 x 26.2 ft)
House design
Designer: myself, using Sweet Home software
What do you particularly like? Spacious ground floor, large children’s rooms, large entrance area
What do you dislike? Double half-turn staircase
Price estimate according to architect/planner:
Personal price limit for the house including fixtures:
Preferred heating system: ground source heat pump
filosof schrieb:
At least if I build the house in North America – But it doesn’t say that.
filosof schrieb:
I would definitely install a chimney, even if I don’t need it for heating. Yes, and a bathroom for children, even if you don’t have any, a huge storage room without growing any vegetables, and definitely a double garage, even if you don’t have a driver’s license. But definitely!
Buchsbaum schrieb:
Everyone can do as they please. Fortunately – I wonder about the added value of answers that are not _mine_ 😉
Buchsbaum schrieb:
Those were also the super-smart ones who once thought, why would I need a chimney. [...] Others retrofitted it later inside the house with ceiling openings, roof penetrations, and so on. All very expensive afterwards. That’s why I said:
11ant schrieb:
To plan a chimney – meaning as a placeholder dashed line – I can accept as a “expect the unexpected” approach. Within that dashed-line zone, you then omit the underfloor heating loops and any other pre-installations you want to make.
But actually, I was here again in this thread because of my question in post #24 to @bafische.
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filosof schrieb:
Sorry. I forgot that making jokes isn’t allowed in this forum. I’ll be quiet now. It’s not about your joke, but about the seriousness of always having to include something even though “it” is not necessary.
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Buchsbaum28 Dec 2023 17:56I have seen quite a few houses in various new development areas where stainless steel exterior chimneys were retrofitted. Usually, they had to be awkwardly routed through the roof structure because it was very complicated or even impossible to install them inside the house.
Nowadays, there are ready-made chimney kits available at affordable prices, and if you consider this during the building planning stage, it doesn’t cost much. However, the long-term benefits can be significant.
The chimney has always been one of the central and most important components of a house. Why should that be different today?
I can only imagine how many heat pumps struggle during cold winters and how many people wish for a wood-burning stove.
I know, in this forum, that will never happen. So go ahead and skip the chimney—I have two in my house anyway.
Nowadays, there are ready-made chimney kits available at affordable prices, and if you consider this during the building planning stage, it doesn’t cost much. However, the long-term benefits can be significant.
The chimney has always been one of the central and most important components of a house. Why should that be different today?
I can only imagine how many heat pumps struggle during cold winters and how many people wish for a wood-burning stove.
I know, in this forum, that will never happen. So go ahead and skip the chimney—I have two in my house anyway.
If, for whatever reason, the heat pump in a new building with a 5kW heating load fails at a natural outdoor temperature of -15°C (5°F), you simply put a 2kW fan heater in the living room as a temporary solution and bake a cake or pizza in the oven… 😉
Unfortunately, a chimney on its own won’t help to bridge the time until the repair 😀
Unfortunately, a chimney on its own won’t help to bridge the time until the repair 😀
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xMisterDx28 Dec 2023 20:36Buchsbaum schrieb:
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I don’t want to know how many people find their heat pump struggling in the cold winter and end up wishing for a wood-burning stove.
(...)I can imagine that this doesn’t fit your worldview and that you don’t want to acknowledge it. It probably happens very rarely anyway.
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