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^^.
kaho674 schrieb:
If the 3D model doesn’t help someone, then a hand drawing won’t either. You misunderstand me: anyone who draws themselves develops a better sense of space. More so than if they just look at pictures. For your clients, of course, it’s great because they can immediately see how the new wall unit will look. But whether they can really imagine it in their own living room—that’s where the software stops being helpful. If, however, someone has already engaged with their rooms through some kind of drawing, they will have a much better understanding of how that stylish 3D wall will actually look in the living room.
Climbee schrieb:
But before he planned like that, he definitely learned well at the drawing board—I’d bet my life on it. Yes, that’s necessary—see the focus of architectural studies.
Climbee schrieb:
And that’s helping him now. I don’t see the difference between drawing by hand and working on the computer. You need to learn distances, shapes, and so on just the same by hand. On the contrary—you have to know how to do it on the computer anyway, so why not learn it properly from the start?
Climbee schrieb:
Of course, it’s great for your clients because they can immediately see how the new wall unit will look. But whether they can really imagine it in their own living room, that’s where the program no longer helps. I do think it does, because the client rooms are recreated exactly, including windows, doors, and all the little details. But I guess there are two different opinions on that...
Yeah. I also got a little image of our living room furniture. What’s unfortunately missing (and what I never asked for, as the poor guy would have had to spend ages on it) is the furnishing of the rest of the room. We have everything in one space (and it’s not very big): dining, kitchen, and living area. That definitely affects how a piece of furniture looks. Sure, the wall where the piece was placed was drawn and the colors were roughly chosen, but the kitchen next to it wasn’t shown.
I could still imagine it well.
I could still imagine it well.
kaho674 schrieb:
There was nothing hand-drawn. Everything was done on the computer. Old math teacher saying: if you already know how, you’re allowed to use the calculator. I’m not against CAD either – I wouldn’t draw execution plans by hand nowadays. But at the sketching stage, handmade is irreplaceable. And the little programs tend to push users too quickly into the phase of execution plans.
Climbee schrieb:
Getting a feel for it yourself, for example when I see a 2D plan and can imagine how it will actually look, that’s a different level, and unfortunately programs don’t help with that at all. You can clearly see it in the thread history of @R.Hotzenplotz: the spaceship-style prefab house already looked almost finished over 1,200 posts ago. Every tiny detail was “visualized.” Unfortunately, without understanding the execution, which then causes the insulation at the boundary between the living room ceiling and roof terrace to create a threshold height at the exit doors that surprises laypeople, the WC drain ventilation is not visible in the drawings, and the power company receives – digitally, but through faulty document management – the wrong (old) plan for the utility room.
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11ant schrieb:
Spaceship Enterbauhaus And you think it would be better done by hand? It might actually be much worse... To me, there is a lot of romantic idealization from the artistically gifted dream architect involved.
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