ᐅ Floor plan of a single-family house on a sloped site with a basement
Created on: 5 Feb 2019 15:15
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Blanco1
Hello dear house building community!
I have been a quiet observer of this forum for a long time and now I would like to share my project with you and would appreciate your feedback and ideas.
The planning was done by my architect, but I am not entirely happy with it yet. Unfortunately, I have the impression that my architect is a bit fixed in his planning and does not fully incorporate our wishes. Maybe you have better ideas that I could present to him as solutions.
Plot size: 387 sqm (4,165 sq ft)
Slope: Yes
Site coverage ratio / plot ratio: 0.4
Floor-area ratio / floor space index: 0.8
Restrictions: Eaves height 7.50 m (24.6 ft)
Owner’s requirements
Style, roof shape, building type: Flat roof
Basement, floors: yes, 2 full floors
Number of people, ages: 33, 33, 6 (2 more to follow)
Room requirements on the ground floor: Kitchen/dining/living, pantry, guest toilet, entrance hall, corridor
Room requirements on the upper floor: 2 children's bedrooms, master bedroom, walk-in closet, large family bathroom
Room requirements in the basement: Guest room, home office, utility room, laundry room, storage room
Number of overnight guests per year: 10
Open or closed architecture: Open
Conservative or modern construction: Modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: Open with kitchen island (L-shape 4 m x 2.8 m (13 ft x 9 ft 2 in)), island 3.2 m (10 ft 6 in) long
Number of dining seats: 6
Fireplace: Yes
Music/stereo wall: TV wall
Balcony, roof terrace: Roof terrace
Garage, carport: Single garage built on the property boundary
House design
Who created the design: Architect
What do you not like? Why?
- Children’s bedrooms too small
- Staircase shape
- Entrance hall too large?
- No master bathroom needed
- No utility room needed on the ground floor
- Walk-in closets in the children’s rooms do not need to be so large, rather a small closet as common in the USA.
In the basement, we would like the guest room and home office on the north side with floor-to-ceiling windows (the garage would need to be shifted a bit to the right in the plan)
If you have to give up something, which details/additions can you do without: Roof terrace
Why is the design like it is now? Restrictions due to plot size and orientation.
What is the most important/fundamental question about the floor plan in 130 characters?: Do you have any ideas how to make it more attractive?
I look forward to your feedback :-)
I have been a quiet observer of this forum for a long time and now I would like to share my project with you and would appreciate your feedback and ideas.
The planning was done by my architect, but I am not entirely happy with it yet. Unfortunately, I have the impression that my architect is a bit fixed in his planning and does not fully incorporate our wishes. Maybe you have better ideas that I could present to him as solutions.
Plot size: 387 sqm (4,165 sq ft)
Slope: Yes
Site coverage ratio / plot ratio: 0.4
Floor-area ratio / floor space index: 0.8
Restrictions: Eaves height 7.50 m (24.6 ft)
Owner’s requirements
Style, roof shape, building type: Flat roof
Basement, floors: yes, 2 full floors
Number of people, ages: 33, 33, 6 (2 more to follow)
Room requirements on the ground floor: Kitchen/dining/living, pantry, guest toilet, entrance hall, corridor
Room requirements on the upper floor: 2 children's bedrooms, master bedroom, walk-in closet, large family bathroom
Room requirements in the basement: Guest room, home office, utility room, laundry room, storage room
Number of overnight guests per year: 10
Open or closed architecture: Open
Conservative or modern construction: Modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: Open with kitchen island (L-shape 4 m x 2.8 m (13 ft x 9 ft 2 in)), island 3.2 m (10 ft 6 in) long
Number of dining seats: 6
Fireplace: Yes
Music/stereo wall: TV wall
Balcony, roof terrace: Roof terrace
Garage, carport: Single garage built on the property boundary
House design
Who created the design: Architect
What do you not like? Why?
- Children’s bedrooms too small
- Staircase shape
- Entrance hall too large?
- No master bathroom needed
- No utility room needed on the ground floor
- Walk-in closets in the children’s rooms do not need to be so large, rather a small closet as common in the USA.
In the basement, we would like the guest room and home office on the north side with floor-to-ceiling windows (the garage would need to be shifted a bit to the right in the plan)
If you have to give up something, which details/additions can you do without: Roof terrace
Why is the design like it is now? Restrictions due to plot size and orientation.
What is the most important/fundamental question about the floor plan in 130 characters?: Do you have any ideas how to make it more attractive?
I look forward to your feedback :-)
Blanco1 schrieb:
He is an architect with many years of experience. Experience in what – pumpkin growing? – certainly neither in architecture nor in construction planning (and not in construction management either, otherwise he would plan differently).
Blanco1 schrieb:
Do you have any ideas on how it could be done better? Yes, start completely from scratch. I don’t see a single detail in the design worth carrying over to a new version.
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Mottenhausen10 Feb 2019 00:22If you compile all the mistakes that have been noticed here at first glance and still want to stick with the architect, then you really have no one to blame but yourself.
Regarding the missing staircase to the attic floor: that’s not a mistake, it’s a feature. Since there is no view from the windows anyway and the balcony cannot be accessed, the architect figured that nobody would ever go up there. So the staircase was deliberately left out, which also saves quite a bit of money.
Regarding the missing staircase to the attic floor: that’s not a mistake, it’s a feature. Since there is no view from the windows anyway and the balcony cannot be accessed, the architect figured that nobody would ever go up there. So the staircase was deliberately left out, which also saves quite a bit of money.
Is this a joke?!
Changing to anything other than an architect is madness.
That may be true, but I wouldn’t go back to an architect who produces such a design. Any architect with even a bit of pride and idealism for their profession would refuse to work on that kind of project.
Changing to anything other than an architect is madness.
ypg schrieb:
Poor designs are usually not due to the architect’s birth year, but rather a result of poor communication and client requests that cannot be realized because of the limitations of the plot of land...
That may be true, but I wouldn’t go back to an architect who produces such a design. Any architect with even a bit of pride and idealism for their profession would refuse to work on that kind of project.
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