ᐅ Floor Plan for a Single-Family Home on the Edge of a Forest
Created on: 22 Dec 2021 09:40
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nagner99
Hello,
we have purchased a plot of land that is an infill lot within a residential area from the 1990s. It is a corner lot with forest on two sides. We now want to build a single-family house.
Development plan/restrictions
Plot size: 1022 sqm (around 11,000 sq ft)
Slope: slight fall towards the street
Floor area ratio (FAR): 0.3
Site coverage ratio: 0.3
Building envelope, building line, and boundary
Edge development: no
Number of parking spaces: 1
Number of floors: 1
Roof type: gable roof, 35° pitch
Architectural style: brick veneer
Orientation: street on the south side
Maximum height/limits: 4 m (13 ft) eaves height
Other specifications:
-
Client requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type: solid construction without basement
Basement: no; floors: ground floor or attic
Number and age of occupants: 2 adults; 28 years, 29 years, 1 child planned
Space requirements on ground floor: open living-dining area, study, utility room, pantry, shower toilet
Upper floor: master bedroom plus walk-in closet, 1 children’s room, bathroom with tub and shower and double sinks, second office
Office use: family use or home office? Home office, two needed
Number of guest sleepers per year: 1-2
Open or closed layout: open
Conservative or modern construction: modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: yes, island
Number of dining seats: 6
Fireplace: no
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: double garage with storage room
Vegetable garden, greenhouse: maybe
Other wishes/particular needs/daily routine, including reasons why some features are included or excluded
House design
Who designed it: designed by me using SweetHome 3D and discussed and costed with the general contractor
What do you like most? Why? The gallery and the cloakroom with a passage to the garage
What do you dislike? Why? Storage space might be tight, utility room possibly too small
Cost estimate according to architect/planner: not yet known, approx. 430,000 EUR
Personal budget limit for house including fittings: -
Preferred heating system: air-to-water heat pump
If you have to give up certain details/finishes,
- what can you do without: KfW 55 standard, towel radiator in the bathroom, kitchen island, if well justified: good question
- what you cannot do without: the open gallery must remain
Why is the design as it is now? e.g.
What do you think makes it particularly good or bad? We like the layout, maybe the walk-in closet needs to be swapped depending on the knee wall height
What is the most important/fundamental question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
We have a lot of light in the living room from the conservatory and high ceiling heights. Naturally, some space is lost by the design, but we accept that consciously.
we have purchased a plot of land that is an infill lot within a residential area from the 1990s. It is a corner lot with forest on two sides. We now want to build a single-family house.
Development plan/restrictions
Plot size: 1022 sqm (around 11,000 sq ft)
Slope: slight fall towards the street
Floor area ratio (FAR): 0.3
Site coverage ratio: 0.3
Building envelope, building line, and boundary
Edge development: no
Number of parking spaces: 1
Number of floors: 1
Roof type: gable roof, 35° pitch
Architectural style: brick veneer
Orientation: street on the south side
Maximum height/limits: 4 m (13 ft) eaves height
Other specifications:
-
Client requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type: solid construction without basement
Basement: no; floors: ground floor or attic
Number and age of occupants: 2 adults; 28 years, 29 years, 1 child planned
Space requirements on ground floor: open living-dining area, study, utility room, pantry, shower toilet
Upper floor: master bedroom plus walk-in closet, 1 children’s room, bathroom with tub and shower and double sinks, second office
Office use: family use or home office? Home office, two needed
Number of guest sleepers per year: 1-2
Open or closed layout: open
Conservative or modern construction: modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: yes, island
Number of dining seats: 6
Fireplace: no
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: double garage with storage room
Vegetable garden, greenhouse: maybe
Other wishes/particular needs/daily routine, including reasons why some features are included or excluded
House design
Who designed it: designed by me using SweetHome 3D and discussed and costed with the general contractor
What do you like most? Why? The gallery and the cloakroom with a passage to the garage
What do you dislike? Why? Storage space might be tight, utility room possibly too small
Cost estimate according to architect/planner: not yet known, approx. 430,000 EUR
Personal budget limit for house including fittings: -
Preferred heating system: air-to-water heat pump
If you have to give up certain details/finishes,
- what can you do without: KfW 55 standard, towel radiator in the bathroom, kitchen island, if well justified: good question
- what you cannot do without: the open gallery must remain
Why is the design as it is now? e.g.
What do you think makes it particularly good or bad? We like the layout, maybe the walk-in closet needs to be swapped depending on the knee wall height
What is the most important/fundamental question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
We have a lot of light in the living room from the conservatory and high ceiling heights. Naturally, some space is lost by the design, but we accept that consciously.
nagner99 schrieb:
What do you think about this?Unfortunately, it looks like a case of making things worse. Now a shower can no longer fit in the guest bathroom either.K
Kreisrund23 Feb 2022 09:03bortel schrieb:
I would definitely make the living room and child's room windows much larger!Absolutely! Aren't all the rooms upstairs terribly dark?nagner99 schrieb:
The windows upstairs are all floor-to-ceiling. According to the architect, that is sufficient and no additional skylights are needed?!Nobody is talking about skylights either.But if you like the room to be dark, that’s perfectly fine. 😉
In one children’s room we have double the window area, and in the other, three times as much glass.
Window planning is actually the lesser “evil” here. (But who cares anyway, if the homeowners don’t mind!)
driver55 schrieb:
Nobody even talks about roof windows.
But if you like it dark inside, that’s totally fine. 😉
In one children’s room, we have double the window area, and in the other, triple the amount of glass.
Window planning is actually the lesser “evil” here. (But who cares anyway if the homeowner doesn’t mind!)That makes me wonder what kind of glass palace this is if every room has three times the amount of windows… Each of the rooms on the upper floor has at least 2.8m² (30 sq ft) of window area. And please feel free to specify what bothers you if “window planning is still the lesser evil.”
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