ᐅ Floor Plan Design for Urban Villa – Catalog Floor Plan Inspiration
Created on: 22 Sep 2021 10:45
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miriam85
Hello dear members,
After a long time of quietly following the forum and officially reserving our preferred plot, we are now venturing into planning our urban villa. We have drawn inspiration from many catalog floor plans and sketched extensively on paper. The result is a design we are reasonably satisfied with. We would now like to have it reviewed by you to understand what works (or doesn’t).
First, the questionnaire:
Development plan / restrictions
Plot size 600 sqm (20x30 m) (6460 sq ft, 66x98 ft)
Slope no
Building area, building line and boundary 3 m (10 ft) setback
Number of parking spaces 2
Number of floors max. 2
Roof style any
Architectural style modern
Orientation garden facing southwest
Client requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type urban villa with hipped roof
Basement, floors 2 floors without basement
Number of occupants, ages 3 (36, 35, 2)
Room area on ground and upper floors approx. 85 sqm (915 sq ft) each
Office: family use or home office? home office
Overnight guests per year 4
Open or closed architecture open
Open kitchen, kitchen island yes
Number of dining seats 6, extendable to 10
Balcony, roof terrace no
Garage, carport double garage
House design
Who designed it? do-it-yourself
What do you like most? Why? Our space requirements are met. Front entrance centered.
What do you dislike? Why? We are unsure if the upper floor works as planned. To make the fitness room functional in size, we had to move walls and reduce the upstairs hallway. Could this result in too little natural light on the upper floor? Also, we are uncertain if the utility room is adequately sized.
Preferred heating system: air-to-water heat pump + controlled mechanical ventilation
If you had to give up, which details/ additions would you omit
-could you give up: pantry, door from utility room to garage, straight staircase (even though we like it for being easy to use and providing storage underneath)
-could you not give up: fitness room, two children's bedrooms, office
Why is the design the way it is? For example,
What do you consider particularly good or bad about it? See above. We have included all the required rooms but are not sure the upper floor layout works. We also have concerns about storage space.
Regarding orientation, the plan is to position the house as close as possible to the street (northeast) to maximize garden space in the southwest.
Enough said: we look forward to feedback from the lions’ den. ;-)
After a long time of quietly following the forum and officially reserving our preferred plot, we are now venturing into planning our urban villa. We have drawn inspiration from many catalog floor plans and sketched extensively on paper. The result is a design we are reasonably satisfied with. We would now like to have it reviewed by you to understand what works (or doesn’t).
First, the questionnaire:
Development plan / restrictions
Plot size 600 sqm (20x30 m) (6460 sq ft, 66x98 ft)
Slope no
Building area, building line and boundary 3 m (10 ft) setback
Number of parking spaces 2
Number of floors max. 2
Roof style any
Architectural style modern
Orientation garden facing southwest
Client requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type urban villa with hipped roof
Basement, floors 2 floors without basement
Number of occupants, ages 3 (36, 35, 2)
Room area on ground and upper floors approx. 85 sqm (915 sq ft) each
Office: family use or home office? home office
Overnight guests per year 4
Open or closed architecture open
Open kitchen, kitchen island yes
Number of dining seats 6, extendable to 10
Balcony, roof terrace no
Garage, carport double garage
House design
Who designed it? do-it-yourself
What do you like most? Why? Our space requirements are met. Front entrance centered.
What do you dislike? Why? We are unsure if the upper floor works as planned. To make the fitness room functional in size, we had to move walls and reduce the upstairs hallway. Could this result in too little natural light on the upper floor? Also, we are uncertain if the utility room is adequately sized.
Preferred heating system: air-to-water heat pump + controlled mechanical ventilation
If you had to give up, which details/ additions would you omit
-could you give up: pantry, door from utility room to garage, straight staircase (even though we like it for being easy to use and providing storage underneath)
-could you not give up: fitness room, two children's bedrooms, office
Why is the design the way it is? For example,
What do you consider particularly good or bad about it? See above. We have included all the required rooms but are not sure the upper floor layout works. We also have concerns about storage space.
Regarding orientation, the plan is to position the house as close as possible to the street (northeast) to maximize garden space in the southwest.
Enough said: we look forward to feedback from the lions’ den. ;-)
Schimi179122 Sep 2021 15:23Alessandro schrieb:
9.33 m² (100.4 sq ft) with two doors is quite tight for the utility room. Where do you plan to hang laundry?A sliding door could possibly help here.hampshire schrieb:
Try to move away from the square floor plan, which you don’t actually need for your plot. Everything becomes much simpler that way. Square floor plans are great if you want to save cost per square meter or if you are simply in love with that design.Thanks for the suggestion.
ypg schrieb:
The kitchen is practically unfurnished. Aside from that, the pantry will be very tight.We took your advice and have now furnished the kitchen. We had to move the pantry door to do this. We are not professional kitchen planners, and the kitchen does seem quite small. But overall, there is about 13sqm (140 sq ft) available for the kitchen. There should be a way to make it work...
The term "standard floor plan" was mentioned several times. We have been looking at the major builders for a while but haven’t found THE floor plan yet that points in the right direction. The sports room upstairs is basically just a third kid’s bedroom. But it’s hard to find comparable floor plans with three children’s bedrooms plus an office, where the room orientations also work well. Does anyone have any examples?
Stephan— schrieb:
Some friends of ours are currently building this floor plan, might be of interest to you since it’s almost identical.They all seem pretty similar. It’s really the small details (open or closed staircase, cloakroom, etc.) that make the difference between an adequate, a functional, or a just-so-so floor plan.miriam85 schrieb:
We had to move the door to the pantry for that. Yes, that’s just the first of many steps.miriam85 schrieb:
But overall, the kitchen has 13 sqm available.Well, you basically have a working area of 120cm x 120cm (47 inches x 47 inches)... so just 1.44 sqm (15.5 sq ft) for prepping, cooking, chopping, washing, preserving, etc. You can’t even open the cabinets easily because you’re in the way. Your husband would end up bumping into you between the sink and the stove. Opening or unloading the dishwasher? Only after the family’s in bed. About one third of your kitchen space is practically lost.Try furnishing it all, please.
First of all, great job on the completed questionnaire in the initial post, and even in two colors. Unfortunately, the property and much of the dimensioning are missing.
“Starting from scratch and beginning at zero” is a good idea because it is always more beneficial to do a relaunch instead of a patchwork fix. Especially in the last one or two percent of correcting an “almost perfect” floor plan, as an amateur planner one can easily end up in a dead end. Presumably, this insight is exactly why this draft was created, since the standard models lack the room “Child 3,” which here would have been needed for conversion into a sports room.
You seem to have continued to base your size framework on the “extended Medium Size” alternative villa (10.5 m (34.4 feet) edge length), which results in too high a density of rooms/wishes versus the floor area.
The copying error “from the ground floor” already starts with deriving the upper floor from the ground floor—consult Google for the explanation in “The upper floor has priority.” What were the design guidelines for the planning approach anyway?
We have discussed the problem with lighting the staircase on the upper floor / the structure above its starting point before; I can’t find the exact thread right now, but if I recall correctly, it was somewhere in a thread by @Drasleona https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/efh-175qm-ohne-keller-zu-gross.34489/page-27.
Perhaps a floor plan proposal that, like extending the wheelbase of a stretch limousine, adds about two meters, turning a 9 x 11 m (29.5 x 36 feet) base model into a 9 x 13 m (29.5 x 42.7 feet) version, could work... Also, check out one-and-a-half-story designs (also because square models predominate among the alternative villas—but mainly because this is the logical, systematic approach if you only need “one more room” on the upper floor).
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
“Starting from scratch and beginning at zero” is a good idea because it is always more beneficial to do a relaunch instead of a patchwork fix. Especially in the last one or two percent of correcting an “almost perfect” floor plan, as an amateur planner one can easily end up in a dead end. Presumably, this insight is exactly why this draft was created, since the standard models lack the room “Child 3,” which here would have been needed for conversion into a sports room.
You seem to have continued to base your size framework on the “extended Medium Size” alternative villa (10.5 m (34.4 feet) edge length), which results in too high a density of rooms/wishes versus the floor area.
miriam85 schrieb:
A copying error from the ground floor. [...] We initially focused on the interior floor plan.
The copying error “from the ground floor” already starts with deriving the upper floor from the ground floor—consult Google for the explanation in “The upper floor has priority.” What were the design guidelines for the planning approach anyway?
We have discussed the problem with lighting the staircase on the upper floor / the structure above its starting point before; I can’t find the exact thread right now, but if I recall correctly, it was somewhere in a thread by @Drasleona https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/efh-175qm-ohne-keller-zu-gross.34489/page-27.
miriam85 schrieb:
The term “standard floor plan” came up frequently. We have been looking for a while among the “large ones” but have not yet found THE floor plan that points in the right direction. The sports room upstairs is basically just a third child’s bedroom. It’s just that there are few comparable layouts with three children’s bedrooms and an office that also have the correct room orientation. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Perhaps a floor plan proposal that, like extending the wheelbase of a stretch limousine, adds about two meters, turning a 9 x 11 m (29.5 x 36 feet) base model into a 9 x 13 m (29.5 x 42.7 feet) version, could work... Also, check out one-and-a-half-story designs (also because square models predominate among the alternative villas—but mainly because this is the logical, systematic approach if you only need “one more room” on the upper floor).
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
Size isn’t everything. First, draw all the furniture to scale and take into account movement space and daily routines.
There is wasted space throughout your entire floor plan. In other areas, you have planned tight spots. As others have already pointed out, position the doors wherever possible so that a closet can fit behind them. The wardrobe is very small. Nothing is worse than having to step over shoes and bags. A large part of the area is hallway rather than usable storage space. The hallway feels smaller once a closet is added under the stairs.
Upstairs, the parents’ area offers as much closet space as a well-designed 15 m² (160 ft²) bedroom without a walk-in closet.
There is wasted space throughout your entire floor plan. In other areas, you have planned tight spots. As others have already pointed out, position the doors wherever possible so that a closet can fit behind them. The wardrobe is very small. Nothing is worse than having to step over shoes and bags. A large part of the area is hallway rather than usable storage space. The hallway feels smaller once a closet is added under the stairs.
Upstairs, the parents’ area offers as much closet space as a well-designed 15 m² (160 ft²) bedroom without a walk-in closet.
haydee schrieb:
You have dead space throughout your entire floor plan. ... but actually no room for it, it would need about one more meter of edge length.
haydee schrieb:
In another area, you are planning tight spots. I wouldn’t put it that way. In an enclosed room with a “square floor plan,” the tight spot is naturally the automatic counterpart—like antimatter—to the dead space. So, you don’t really “plan” it; it always comes along. Essentially, you invite the dead space “along with a companion of your choice” to the party inside the square, and that companion just happens to be the tight spot.
But the original poster has already shown willingness to renounce the “square demon” ;-)
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
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