ᐅ Floor plan for a detached single-family house with a gable roof, 1.5 stories – suggestions for improvements?
Created on: 17 Jul 2018 09:31
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Hello. My partner and I are planning to build a house soon. This is the first draft from the planner at the construction company. The design was created based on our specifications (a hand-drawn sketch from us).
Gable roof, single-family house, no basement, 1.5 stories, currently 2 people in the household; later 3-4.
The terrace is planned to be adjacent to the kitchen and living area, mainly facing west. Do you think it would be better to have it facing south instead? Possibly wrap around the corner near the living area?
Our requirement was to have direct access from the garage/carport into the utility room, and from there directly into the kitchen.
- Is the size of the utility room sufficient? All the building services should be housed there. Additionally, the utility room should also serve as a kind of pantry. Laundry tasks will also be done there.
- What do you think about the downstairs bathroom? Showering directly in front of the window doesn’t seem ideal^^.
Gable roof, single-family house, no basement, 1.5 stories, currently 2 people in the household; later 3-4.
The terrace is planned to be adjacent to the kitchen and living area, mainly facing west. Do you think it would be better to have it facing south instead? Possibly wrap around the corner near the living area?
Our requirement was to have direct access from the garage/carport into the utility room, and from there directly into the kitchen.
- Is the size of the utility room sufficient? All the building services should be housed there. Additionally, the utility room should also serve as a kind of pantry. Laundry tasks will also be done there.
- What do you think about the downstairs bathroom? Showering directly in front of the window doesn’t seem ideal^^.
Climbee schrieb:
I don’t get a sense of perspective, for example, when using a software program. Of course, it’s actually much better – I can even walk through the room in 3D. It hardly gets any better than that.
We now even sell furniture in-store using instant 3D planning. The customer can see their custom furniture on the screen before ordering. If every basic salesperson uses these tools to sell products, then it will definitely become standard for architects as well.
It’s like with music. Before computers and such existed, only musicians who played an instrument could succeed. Today, DJs make millions, more or less without instruments.
Climbee schrieb:
And I firmly believe that an architect must be able to quickly sketch a drawing by hand. I argue that in a good architectural firm, the lead architect is responsible for the ideas and communicates directly with the draftsman using rough sketches.
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11ant schrieb:
I claim that in a good architectural firm, the principal is responsible for the ideas and communicates directly with their draftsman using scribbled notes. I recently visited my architect. He’s definitely not bad. Of course, I asked if he was currently designing anything special. There was nothing hand-drawn. Everything was done on the computer, with dual monitors and another one next to them. Interestingly, the calculations were done by hand...
kaho674 schrieb:
Sure, even much better – I can even walk around the room in 3D. It hardly gets any better than that.
We now even sell the furniture in-store using immediate planning with a 3D view. The customer sees their custom-ordered furniture right on the screen. If every small-time seller is already using these tools to sell, it will surely become standard among architects as well.
It’s like with music. Before computers and such existed, only artists who played instruments could make it. Today, DJs earn millions, more or less without playing instruments.You SEE it better, even those bad with perspective. Getting a real feel for it yourself, for example when I look at a 2D plan and imagine how it will actually look, is a different story, and unfortunately, programs don’t help much with that.
Climbee schrieb:
You CAN SEE it better, even if you struggle with perspective. Developing a personal sense for it—for example, when I look at a 2D plan and can imagine how it will actually look—is a different matter, and unfortunately, software doesn’t really help with that. If a 3D model doesn’t help someone, then a hand drawing won’t either.
kaho674 schrieb:
I recently visited my architect. He’s actually not bad at all. Of course, I asked if he was working on anything really special at the moment. Nothing was hand-drawn. Everything was done on the computer. Dual monitors, plus another one to the side. Interestingly, the calculations were done by hand... We’re totally off topic, but whatever.
Sure, if he has a reliable software, then hopefully he uses it. But before he started designing that way, I’m willing to bet he learned properly at the drawing board. And that knowledge helps him now.
Fant: that’s how our architect was—I’m telling you, rather old-fashioned. And the draftsman made mistake after mistake... the number of corrections I had to make was huge. I would have liked it if he’d had a fancy program and I could have gotten some nice 3D visuals. But it works without them too. Only if I hadn’t known our plans so well myself, many errors would have gone unnoticed, because the drawings looked very neat (but that doesn’t help if, for example, the door to the walk-in closet is not at least 70cm (28 inches) away from the wall, since then I can’t fit a wardrobe there).
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