ᐅ Apartment floor plan on a sloped site, showing ground floor / basement level
Created on: 15 Jul 2020 09:02
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RomeoZwo
Hello everyone,
this is about a condominium apartment for rental. The apartment is located in a house on a hillside and is therefore partly basement level, but mostly on the ground floor. (Please no discussions about whether basement level is bad – but in this case, it is the only option). Rooms with basement level (meaning soil above the room floor) measure 1.04 and 1.06 meters (3.4 and 3.5 feet).
There are now two layout options. Both have been approved by the developer:
1) Original plan by the developer’s architect. The apartment has its own private entrance. From the main entrance (door is missing in the floor plan) there are about 4 steps down outside, then into the apartment. Advantage according to the architect → no basement feeling when entering the house. Disadvantage (my opinion) → feels like a “service entrance,” wasted living space due to additional vestibule and hallway. Dirt is carried directly into the apartment.
2) (My) modification. Entrance via the stairwell going down. Disadvantage → basement feeling when entering the house. Advantage (my opinion) → larger bedroom, swapping bathroom and kitchen allowing an open kitchen to visually enlarge the small (22m2 (237 ft2)) living room (the terrace door will be doubled, which has been approved by the heritage office). Bedroom and main bathroom are separated from the children’s rooms.
What do you think? Which option would you prefer, or what do you think most tenants would prefer?
Thank you very much for your input!
this is about a condominium apartment for rental. The apartment is located in a house on a hillside and is therefore partly basement level, but mostly on the ground floor. (Please no discussions about whether basement level is bad – but in this case, it is the only option). Rooms with basement level (meaning soil above the room floor) measure 1.04 and 1.06 meters (3.4 and 3.5 feet).
There are now two layout options. Both have been approved by the developer:
1) Original plan by the developer’s architect. The apartment has its own private entrance. From the main entrance (door is missing in the floor plan) there are about 4 steps down outside, then into the apartment. Advantage according to the architect → no basement feeling when entering the house. Disadvantage (my opinion) → feels like a “service entrance,” wasted living space due to additional vestibule and hallway. Dirt is carried directly into the apartment.
2) (My) modification. Entrance via the stairwell going down. Disadvantage → basement feeling when entering the house. Advantage (my opinion) → larger bedroom, swapping bathroom and kitchen allowing an open kitchen to visually enlarge the small (22m2 (237 ft2)) living room (the terrace door will be doubled, which has been approved by the heritage office). Bedroom and main bathroom are separated from the children’s rooms.
What do you think? Which option would you prefer, or what do you think most tenants would prefer?
Thank you very much for your input!
RomeoZwo schrieb:
Somehow, I only deal with heritage sites – couldn’t my family have just bought normal plots… Well, instead of the gravel pits, we opted for compensation. But in Timmendorfer Strand, I can practically park on my own land because my mother is the great-great-grand heiress of a small share of a large estate *LOL*
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I just experimented with this layout, but I can’t seem to fit a proper bedroom setup into the now larger room. Either the wardrobe blocks the window, or the bed ends up right by the door.
The "original" bedroom is smaller but much easier to arrange.
Maybe it’s better to keep the kitchen and bathroom as they are. That way, the children’s room would be bigger and far away from the bathroom?
The "original" bedroom is smaller but much easier to arrange.
Maybe it’s better to keep the kitchen and bathroom as they are. That way, the children’s room would be bigger and far away from the bathroom?
haydee schrieb:
Maybe one room will become an extra living or dining room. I find the living space a bit small for 3 or 4 people.Well, 94m2 (1,011 sq ft) should be enough for 3. For 4, I also see it as rather tight now. Unfortunately, I don’t see a real option to visually enlarge the living room. Maybe the part of the wall to the kitchen, besides being widened (probably due to structural reasons), could be made half-height. Then you would also have a kind of counter facing the living room.
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