ᐅ Floor Plan Design for a 130 sqm Urban Villa

Hello dear forum members!

I am looking for opinions and suggestions for improvement.

Development plan/restrictions okay

Plot size 573 sqm (6,167 sq ft)

Slope no

Floor area ratio (FAR) 0.2

Gross floor area ratio (GFAR) 0.5

Building zone, building line, and boundary 3 m (10 ft) street side

Edge development

Number of parking spaces 2

Number of stories 2

Roof type hipped roof

Architectural style city villa

Orientation west

Maximum height/limits 8.29 m (27 ft)

Builders’ requirements

Style, roof type, building type city villa

Basement, number of floors no basement, 2 floors

Number of occupants, ages 4 (36, 34, 6, 1)

Space requirements on ground floor and upper floor ???

Office: Family use or home office? family (guest/storage)

Number of guest stays per year 20

Open or closed architecture open

Conservative or modern design modern

Open kitchen, kitchen island open

Number of dining seats 4–6

Fireplace yes

Balcony, roof terrace no

Garage, carport double carport

Vegetable garden, greenhouse ?

House design

Who created the plan:

- Planner from a construction company

What do you particularly like? Why? Kitchen is open but still separated from the living room, reasonable size of children’s rooms, straight staircase

What do you dislike? Why? Open hallway (noise transfers upstairs, and you can see from the entrance door straight into the living room)

Preferred heating system: geothermal, air heat pump

If you have to give up something, which details/features

-can you give up: large master bedroom, large kitchen, large utility room, garage, dressing room?

-can you not give up: guest room

Why did the design turn out as it is now? E.g. Almost all our ideas were implemented on a small living area.

Standard plan from the planner? yes, revised

Which wishes were fulfilled by the architect? Straight staircase, guest room, kitchen in a niche, guest WC with shower, large children’s rooms.

The orientation on the floor plan is incorrect; I marked the correct one on the site plan. The entrance will be planned from the street side. The dining area will be enlarged by shifting the kitchen about 40 cm (16 in) toward the utility room and shortening the stair wall. I am still not satisfied with window sizes and positions. The upper floor bathroom also needs improvement; we have an appointment planned at the bathroom studio.

Thank you very much for your suggestions.

No door between the living room and the main entrance? I find that uncomfortable. A hallway next to the staircase over 3m (10 feet) long but only about 1.0m (3 feet) wide? That will feel very narrow. Your house might be too small to fit a straight staircase.

How should the passage from the hallway to the kitchen be designed? There should ideally be a clear opening of at least 1 m (3.3 feet). Consider planning a lift-and-slide door instead of hinged doors to the terrace, which will likely be more expensive.

Hello,

I currently have the same issue as you, trying to integrate the straight staircase into the house design...

Is the table really supposed to be placed as shown? Probably not, right?

Does your dining table really fit in that passage? How wide is the table that is supposed to go there?

What would bother me is that chairs always have to be moved when the patio doors need to be opened.

I would swap the walk-in closet and the bedroom. So the walk-in closet on the right, the bedroom on the left.

In the catalog of a high-end supplier, whose name starts with V, there are interesting solutions for straight staircases.