ᐅ Planning the Floor Plan for a Semi-Detached House on a Small Plot, Bauhaus Style
Created on: 5 Dec 2021 14:03
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duke1085
Dear forum,
we are starting a new project with a semi-detached house and have already purchased a suitable small plot of land for it.
We have gone into more detail with the architect during the preliminary building inquiry for the design options and would appreciate any feedback on the two planned variants.
Client requirements
Style, roof type, building type – Modern, flat roof, semi-detached house
Basement, floors – Basement / ground floor / first floor / penthouse level
Number of occupants – currently 2
Open or closed architecture – open
Conservative or modern design – modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island – an open-plan kitchen with a freestanding island + L-shape
Number of dining seats – 6
Fireplace – yes (possibly gas fireplace)
Music/stereo wall – yes, at least 2 meters (6.5 feet) wide
Balcony, roof terrace – penthouse level with roof terrace
Garage, carport – carport
Utility garden, greenhouse – garden as shown in the floor plan
House design
Who is responsible for the design: architect
What do you not like? You will surely tell me 🙂
What is the most important/fundamental floor plan question in 130 characters?
The semi-detached house will be built on a relatively small plot (540 square meters (6,000 square feet)). Therefore, the possibilities are quite limited.
A large living, dining, and kitchen area with the freestanding island mentioned above was important to us, but still divided into different “zones”. Also, privacy from the neighboring house.
So far, we are very satisfied with the designs.
However, I would like to position the kitchen island crosswise. This would mean losing some space on the left and right. In addition, a back kitchen unit under the window facing the street. This would naturally no longer be floor-to-ceiling but adjacent to the kitchen unit.
Furthermore, we do not yet have a free wall for TV, etc. Appliances in front of the window are not preferred.
The following furniture should fit here:
An L-shaped kitchen with a freestanding kitchen island (At the moment we have an island with the following dimensions:
Back kitchen unit 3 meters (10 feet) wide / peninsula 2.10m x 1.17m (6.9 feet x 3.85 feet)
A dining table 2m x 1m (6.5 feet x 3.3 feet)
An L-shaped sofa 3m x 1.90m (10 feet x 6.2 feet) on the longest side
A lowboard for TV / sound system approx. 2 meters (6.5 feet) wide
I welcome any suggestions for improvement and am already excited...
Best regards!
we are starting a new project with a semi-detached house and have already purchased a suitable small plot of land for it.
We have gone into more detail with the architect during the preliminary building inquiry for the design options and would appreciate any feedback on the two planned variants.
Client requirements
Style, roof type, building type – Modern, flat roof, semi-detached house
Basement, floors – Basement / ground floor / first floor / penthouse level
Number of occupants – currently 2
Open or closed architecture – open
Conservative or modern design – modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island – an open-plan kitchen with a freestanding island + L-shape
Number of dining seats – 6
Fireplace – yes (possibly gas fireplace)
Music/stereo wall – yes, at least 2 meters (6.5 feet) wide
Balcony, roof terrace – penthouse level with roof terrace
Garage, carport – carport
Utility garden, greenhouse – garden as shown in the floor plan
House design
Who is responsible for the design: architect
What do you not like? You will surely tell me 🙂
What is the most important/fundamental floor plan question in 130 characters?
The semi-detached house will be built on a relatively small plot (540 square meters (6,000 square feet)). Therefore, the possibilities are quite limited.
A large living, dining, and kitchen area with the freestanding island mentioned above was important to us, but still divided into different “zones”. Also, privacy from the neighboring house.
So far, we are very satisfied with the designs.
However, I would like to position the kitchen island crosswise. This would mean losing some space on the left and right. In addition, a back kitchen unit under the window facing the street. This would naturally no longer be floor-to-ceiling but adjacent to the kitchen unit.
Furthermore, we do not yet have a free wall for TV, etc. Appliances in front of the window are not preferred.
The following furniture should fit here:
An L-shaped kitchen with a freestanding kitchen island (At the moment we have an island with the following dimensions:
Back kitchen unit 3 meters (10 feet) wide / peninsula 2.10m x 1.17m (6.9 feet x 3.85 feet)
A dining table 2m x 1m (6.5 feet x 3.3 feet)
An L-shaped sofa 3m x 1.90m (10 feet x 6.2 feet) on the longest side
A lowboard for TV / sound system approx. 2 meters (6.5 feet) wide
I welcome any suggestions for improvement and am already excited...
Best regards!
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hampshire5 Dec 2021 18:21Nice design. I like the roof terrace by the bedroom. It’s a blessing when the children have become teenagers. On a small plot, everyone can be outside without getting in each other’s way.
The air shaft on the front door side is not a problem in terms of noise from bottom to top, since the entrance area has a door. (The noise passes through the open staircase.) Whether you want to hear everything going on at the front door that clearly is a matter of personal preference. Does the front elevation have a continuous window band matching the height of the air shaft? That could be an absolute highlight in combination with a hanging sculpture. Of course, the air shaft is ultimately an expensive luxury without much practical use. Definitely close off the garden-side air shaft and enlarge the room on the first floor.
I would design the kitchen island more as a peninsula.
The air shaft on the front door side is not a problem in terms of noise from bottom to top, since the entrance area has a door. (The noise passes through the open staircase.) Whether you want to hear everything going on at the front door that clearly is a matter of personal preference. Does the front elevation have a continuous window band matching the height of the air shaft? That could be an absolute highlight in combination with a hanging sculpture. Of course, the air shaft is ultimately an expensive luxury without much practical use. Definitely close off the garden-side air shaft and enlarge the room on the first floor.
I would design the kitchen island more as a peninsula.
To summarize: 1) we are talking about a completely different building and project than in 2019. 2) I have at least overlooked a. whether you want to occupy House L or House R and b. where the profile of the co-builders/buyers/tenants (?) of the other half is located. 3) House L is 80 cm (32 inches) higher than House R. 4) otherwise, both houses are significantly but not entirely mirror images of each other. Many "modules" of the floor plans are the same in both houses. A common theme throughout is to plan in plenty of shortcuts for poor workmanship. 5) Variant 1 only has the height offset; in Variant 2, the halves are also shifted in depth by three-eighths of a meter (about 14 inches). 6) in Variant 2, House L also extends behind the carport, which is not the case in Variant 1. 7) in Variant 1, the two halves have equally sized children's rooms, while in Variant 2, those in House L are significantly larger. 8) the roof terrace of House L is only much larger in Variant 1 and substantially larger in Variant 2.
Without further explanations, much of this is still hard to fully understand. Overall, the design (not only because of the atriums) feels very much like it came from a time machine; I saw many similar designs about forty years ago. Both design variants raise the question of what special treatment regarding the access roads is expected here: the parking situation only works well under the (doubtfully approved) conditions of almost entirely border-adjacent crossing permissions as well as an access road on the curve. Considering the general trend of approving only one 2.50 m (8 feet 2 inches) wide driveway per house (and not allowing driveways on curves at all), I mark both assumptions with serious question marks.
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
Without further explanations, much of this is still hard to fully understand. Overall, the design (not only because of the atriums) feels very much like it came from a time machine; I saw many similar designs about forty years ago. Both design variants raise the question of what special treatment regarding the access roads is expected here: the parking situation only works well under the (doubtfully approved) conditions of almost entirely border-adjacent crossing permissions as well as an access road on the curve. Considering the general trend of approving only one 2.50 m (8 feet 2 inches) wide driveway per house (and not allowing driveways on curves at all), I mark both assumptions with serious question marks.
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
kbt09 schrieb:
Why have the heating system on the ground floor if there is a basement? There are only 2 rooms in the basement…
kbt09 schrieb:
Where is the space for clothes in the sleeping area = master bedroom? That's right! There is nothing 😱
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Bertram1005 Dec 2021 18:46ypg schrieb:
There are only 2 rooms in the basement…
That's right! There's nothing 😱The neighbors R have planned for this and shortened the roof terrace to create a walk-in closet. On the wall to the right side of the bedroom, there is space for a 60cm (24 inches) deep wardrobe.@ypg .. yes, two basement rooms, and I would avoid filling the entrance area on the ground floor with building services, preferring instead to plan a proper cloakroom ... or, if you are already adding inserts to the house, like with the parking space, maybe plan a bike room accessible from outside or something similar. Although that would be completely inaccessible with parking space 3.
@Bertram100 ... maybe a small cupboard, but not very large, and the chimney shaft is also there.
@Bertram100 ... maybe a small cupboard, but not very large, and the chimney shaft is also there.
guckuck2 schrieb:
Currently only on my smartphone, so just a quick question: why plan void spaces when there is limited space available? It seems that appearance is being prioritized over functionality. Absurd.
Everyone at the dining table will hear everything happening in the guest bathroom. Swap it with the storage room. Yes, that's correct. The void space was more of an aesthetic choice rather than a practical one. A large gallery simply wasn’t feasible given the space constraints. We might be able to do without it.
Regarding swapping the guest bathroom with the storage room, that was also our initial thought. I will mention it again at the next meeting...
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