ᐅ Floor Plan for a Two-Story Urban Villa – Suggestions and Ideas for Modifications
Created on: 15 Apr 2018 20:11
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Nenschn
Dear forum members,
until now, I have mostly been a silent reader, gathering ideas for the future. That future is now a reality, and this is how we plan to realize our house construction.
Thanks to the forum and house building catalogs, we (male 31/female 28) actually had quite specific ideas about how the floor plan should look. Unfortunately, I’m really bad at spatial imagination and sketching, so I can’t put my ideas on paper. Our architect friend created the following floor plan after a discussion with us. What can I say? We are still a bit unhappy because our wishes were not very well implemented. Before I write too much, I think it makes more sense to fill out the questionnaire so you get an idea of what we envision and what we are allowed to build. I am very grateful for ideas, suggestions, and possible changes! Thanks in advance 🙂
Development plan/restrictions:
Plot size: 892 sqm (0.22 acres)
Slope: no
Site coverage ratio: 0.3
Floor area ratio: 0.6 for 2 stories
Building envelope, building line, and boundary: open construction method
Number of parking spaces: 2, with garage storage space 5 m (16.5 ft) deep
Number of floors: max. 2
Roof type: single-pitched roof (10-25 degrees), hip roof, and gable roof (15-30 degrees at wall height 6.50 m (21 ft 4 in), 15-40 degrees at wall height below 5.0 m (16 ft 5 in))
Architectural style: open
Orientation:
Maximum heights/limits: eaves height (trough height) 6.50 m (21 ft 4 in) above street level, ridge height for single-pitched roofs max. 7.50 m (24 ft 7 in) above street level, finished floor level ground floor max. 50 cm (20 inches) above street level, garage max. 3.0 m (9 ft 10 in)
Homeowners’ requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type: townhouse/cube style, hip roof/pyramidal roof, single-family house
Basement, floors: no basement, 2 floors
Number of occupants, age: 2 (m 31 / f 28), later 1-2 children
Space needed on ground floor and upper floor: approx. 100 sqm (1,076 sq ft) per floor
Office: family use or home office? Home office
Guest bedrooms per year: about 2-4
Open or closed architecture: open, but with the possibility to close off between living room and kitchen/dining room
Conservative or modern construction: combination
Open kitchen, cooking island: kitchen and dining room open, cooking island
Number of dining seats: 8-12
Fireplace: tiled stove
Balcony, roof terrace: optional but not necessary if there is a spacious terrace
Garage, carport: double garage with adjacent space for garden tools/furniture, with access to the house through the utility room, considering a third garage on the south side
Utility garden, greenhouse: planned for later
Further wishes/special features/daily routine, also reasons why something should or should not be included:
Ground floor
- Office with possibility to convert into a bedroom for old age
- Guest toilet with shower (for aging use)
- Sliding door between kitchen/dining and living room
- Utility room as a passage from the house to the garage
- Pantry adjacent to kitchen
- Kitchen with cooking island
- Rooms filled with daylight, preferably large windows/sliding glass door to the terrace
Upper floor
- Storage under the stairs
- Bathroom: maybe a T-layout? Walk-in shower without door, two sinks, bathtub
- Bedroom – walk-in closet – bathroom ideally with walk-through access
- 2 children’s rooms
- No children’s bathroom!
- Optional: small storage room
- Optional: gallery
House design
Who designed the plan: architect friend
What do you particularly like? Why? Separate garage access, storage under the stairs used, office near the entrance (clients don’t have to pass through the house)
What do you dislike? Why? Overall more complicated floor plan,
Ground floor: kitchen/dining rooms are not on the same level, no sliding door between kitchen/dining and living room, passage through technical room instead of utility room as intended, utility room too small, missing tiled stove
Upper floor: bedroom/walk-in closet/bathroom as walk-through not implemented, access to bedroom through walk-in closet, children’s rooms somewhat small
If you have to give up something, which details/extras
- can you do without: balcony, gallery, freestanding bathtub
- can you not do without: sliding door between kitchen/dining and living room, walk-through access between bedroom/walk-in closet/bathroom
until now, I have mostly been a silent reader, gathering ideas for the future. That future is now a reality, and this is how we plan to realize our house construction.
Thanks to the forum and house building catalogs, we (male 31/female 28) actually had quite specific ideas about how the floor plan should look. Unfortunately, I’m really bad at spatial imagination and sketching, so I can’t put my ideas on paper. Our architect friend created the following floor plan after a discussion with us. What can I say? We are still a bit unhappy because our wishes were not very well implemented. Before I write too much, I think it makes more sense to fill out the questionnaire so you get an idea of what we envision and what we are allowed to build. I am very grateful for ideas, suggestions, and possible changes! Thanks in advance 🙂
Development plan/restrictions:
Plot size: 892 sqm (0.22 acres)
Slope: no
Site coverage ratio: 0.3
Floor area ratio: 0.6 for 2 stories
Building envelope, building line, and boundary: open construction method
Number of parking spaces: 2, with garage storage space 5 m (16.5 ft) deep
Number of floors: max. 2
Roof type: single-pitched roof (10-25 degrees), hip roof, and gable roof (15-30 degrees at wall height 6.50 m (21 ft 4 in), 15-40 degrees at wall height below 5.0 m (16 ft 5 in))
Architectural style: open
Orientation:
Maximum heights/limits: eaves height (trough height) 6.50 m (21 ft 4 in) above street level, ridge height for single-pitched roofs max. 7.50 m (24 ft 7 in) above street level, finished floor level ground floor max. 50 cm (20 inches) above street level, garage max. 3.0 m (9 ft 10 in)
Homeowners’ requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type: townhouse/cube style, hip roof/pyramidal roof, single-family house
Basement, floors: no basement, 2 floors
Number of occupants, age: 2 (m 31 / f 28), later 1-2 children
Space needed on ground floor and upper floor: approx. 100 sqm (1,076 sq ft) per floor
Office: family use or home office? Home office
Guest bedrooms per year: about 2-4
Open or closed architecture: open, but with the possibility to close off between living room and kitchen/dining room
Conservative or modern construction: combination
Open kitchen, cooking island: kitchen and dining room open, cooking island
Number of dining seats: 8-12
Fireplace: tiled stove
Balcony, roof terrace: optional but not necessary if there is a spacious terrace
Garage, carport: double garage with adjacent space for garden tools/furniture, with access to the house through the utility room, considering a third garage on the south side
Utility garden, greenhouse: planned for later
Further wishes/special features/daily routine, also reasons why something should or should not be included:
Ground floor
- Office with possibility to convert into a bedroom for old age
- Guest toilet with shower (for aging use)
- Sliding door between kitchen/dining and living room
- Utility room as a passage from the house to the garage
- Pantry adjacent to kitchen
- Kitchen with cooking island
- Rooms filled with daylight, preferably large windows/sliding glass door to the terrace
Upper floor
- Storage under the stairs
- Bathroom: maybe a T-layout? Walk-in shower without door, two sinks, bathtub
- Bedroom – walk-in closet – bathroom ideally with walk-through access
- 2 children’s rooms
- No children’s bathroom!
- Optional: small storage room
- Optional: gallery
House design
Who designed the plan: architect friend
What do you particularly like? Why? Separate garage access, storage under the stairs used, office near the entrance (clients don’t have to pass through the house)
What do you dislike? Why? Overall more complicated floor plan,
Ground floor: kitchen/dining rooms are not on the same level, no sliding door between kitchen/dining and living room, passage through technical room instead of utility room as intended, utility room too small, missing tiled stove
Upper floor: bedroom/walk-in closet/bathroom as walk-through not implemented, access to bedroom through walk-in closet, children’s rooms somewhat small
If you have to give up something, which details/extras
- can you do without: balcony, gallery, freestanding bathtub
- can you not do without: sliding door between kitchen/dining and living room, walk-through access between bedroom/walk-in closet/bathroom
Nenschn schrieb:
Thank you very much for your feedback and suggestions.
Many of the points that personally bother me have already been mentioned.
I’ll go through the comments from top to bottom.
A bigger bed wouldn’t fit here, that’s what I’ve been saying.
Yes, slightly. You can see a compass displayed on the Google Maps image.
@Climbee The passage from the garage through the utility room is intentional because we want to use it as a mudroom...
...we have decided on the mudroom. Laundry should be dropped via a laundry chute into the utility room...!!I understand correctly that you want the entrance/passage to the garage located where either your musty laundry is stored or/and your white laundry is currently drying.
That you question your laundry room because you walk in with your street shoes, which are more dirty than clean from outside, I don’t quite understand [emoji848].
Relocating the technical room is not an option.
I see the focus here is once again "I want to get from the garage into the house, no matter the cost, whether it makes sense or not," with everything else being tolerated.
Solution: simply plan a nice cloakroom and wardrobe in the entrance area first, then start the staircase after that.
Also zoning: office and restroom at the front, storage rooms and technical areas on the side, living and kitchen on the sunny side. The pantry can be located inside along with the freezer.
A sensible option according to the room program (everything is placed on the ground floor here, so there is a large overhang to the upper floor) is to put the utility room upstairs, so that the common room can reach a comfortable 50m² (540 sq ft).
Finally, the garage comes last.
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