ᐅ Different window heights on the ground floor and upper floor

Hello,

we are planning a structural height of 2.875m (9 ft 5 in) on the ground floor and 2.75m (9 ft) on the upper floor. This means the windows on the ground floor would be 1.385m (4 ft 6.7 in) high and 1.26m (4 ft 1.7 in) on the upper floor. Would that look odd, or is it not visually problematic?

Best regards
Sabine

Do you have an exterior view of that on paper or as an image? Without any visualization, it will be difficult to answer.

I believe this is completely uncritical – at least in terms of appearance.
1.38 m (4.5 feet) on the ground floor with an 18 cm (7 inch) floor construction would result in a parapet height of 1.2 m (3.9 feet)… which is rather high.

Hello Sabine,
no, that doesn’t look strange. This has been common for centuries, where the lower floors have higher ceiling heights than the floors above, resulting in window heights decreasing with each level.
It is usually more visually disturbing when windows of different heights are next to each other.
Generally, different window widths in vertically aligned windows also tend to look awkward.

Regards, Peter

BeHaElJa schrieb:

1.38 m on the ground floor with an 18 cm (7 inches) floor structure would result in a parapet height of 1.2 m (47 inches)... that’s rather high.

How do you arrive at the 1.2 m (47 inches) parapet height? We wanted a normal height of 90-95 cm (35-37 inches).

Best regards
Sabine

Is the height of the roller shutter box still deducted from that?