ᐅ Floor Plan Optimization for Urban Villa + Considerations for Land Elevation
Created on: 31 Jan 2020 13:29
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Shiny86
Plot size 492 sqm (5293 sq ft)
Slope yes
Site coverage ratio?
Floor area ratio?
Building envelope, building line, and boundary?
Boundary development?
Number of parking spaces 2
Number of floors 2
Roof type Pyramid roof, 25 degrees
Architectural style Modern urban villa
Orientation Main entrance facing north
Maximum heights/limits
Additional requirements?
Clients’ Requirements
Style, roof type, building type
Modern urban villa with pyramid roof, 25 degrees
Basement, floors 2 full floors without basement
Number of occupants 4
Open kitchen, kitchen island
Number of parking spaces 8-10
Garage
House design
Who designed it?
-Architect
What do you particularly like? Why?
Large living area, master bathroom
What don’t you like? Why?
Utility room quite small and master bedroom small, children’s room somewhat too large
Why is the design as it is now?
The architect implemented the corresponding wishes
What do you think is especially good or bad about it?
Good: large living area
I am uncertain about the half-height window sizes and the swing direction of the doors
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?
What do you think about the floor plans?
Slope yes
Site coverage ratio?
Floor area ratio?
Building envelope, building line, and boundary?
Boundary development?
Number of parking spaces 2
Number of floors 2
Roof type Pyramid roof, 25 degrees
Architectural style Modern urban villa
Orientation Main entrance facing north
Maximum heights/limits
Additional requirements?
Clients’ Requirements
Style, roof type, building type
Modern urban villa with pyramid roof, 25 degrees
Basement, floors 2 full floors without basement
Number of occupants 4
Open kitchen, kitchen island
Number of parking spaces 8-10
Garage
House design
Who designed it?
-Architect
What do you particularly like? Why?
Large living area, master bathroom
What don’t you like? Why?
Utility room quite small and master bedroom small, children’s room somewhat too large
Why is the design as it is now?
The architect implemented the corresponding wishes
What do you think is especially good or bad about it?
Good: large living area
I am uncertain about the half-height window sizes and the swing direction of the doors
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?
- Where could it still be optimized? Would you recommend different window dimensions or sill heights?
- What do you think is poor or what would you do differently?
- A partition wall will be added in the walk-in closet. That would theoretically allow watching TV from the bed. I am considering a lightweight wall. I plan to place a 211cm (83 inches) Pax combination wardrobe in the closet. The closet is planned with a raw width of 218cm (86 inches). Do you think 218cm is enough for the Pax once the walls are plastered, or how wide should the rough dimensions preferably be?
- Is the hallway on the ground floor too narrow?
- Would you raise the ground level? The house would be 40cm (16 inches) below street level. If I build a terrace into the garden, it would be about 1m (3 ft) difference. You could raise only the house level, resulting in approximately 1.6m (5 ft) difference between terrace and garden. I don’t know anyone living below street level. Raising the garden would probably not be allowed without permits, and affected neighbors likely wouldn’t agree. On the sides of the house adjacent to neighbors, raising is permitted only up to certain limits. I am overwhelmed with the decision.
- Do you have any ideas for arranging the sofa differently and placing the TV sensibly? My husband doesn’t want the sofa back facing a window. I still need to get used to placing the sofa in the middle of the room.
- Is the kitchen size sufficient for a nice kitchen with an island?
What do you think about the floor plans?
ltenzer schrieb:
If you raise the ground floor and garage at least to street level, there would already be about a 1.30 m (4 ft 3 in) height difference between the living room floor and the garden at the rear. From my perspective, that is too much use of the subjunctive: Split level is meant to mediate between the terrain heights on different sides of the house. Referring to a third dimension (in this case: the street) only makes sense within the thinking of the “connection door” group, since it is primarily through this connection that the street level becomes relevant inside the house.
haydee schrieb:
The original poster mentioned something like 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in). Possibly in the text. I was looking at the measured height values shown in the site plan.
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11ant schrieb:
In my opinion, there is too much speculation here: A split-level design is meant to bridge the differences in ground elevation on the various sides of the house. Referring to a third factor (in this case, the street) only makes sense within the mindset of those focusing on internal connecting doors, since it is primarily through this connection that the street level becomes relevant to the house. The original poster explicitly asked in the opening post whether they should raise the house to street level. This also relates to drainage issues, as in most houses I know, rainwater flows from the garage driveway away toward the street.
Shiny86 schrieb:
We are open to compromises and would be willing to go with a rectangular shape for a better floor plan. I think that would also be allowed under the building regulations. Do you have any ideas on that?The footprint is slightly smaller than the original design.
View from the front door looking up to the gallery:
kaho674 schrieb:
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The floor area is slightly smaller than the original design.
View from the front door looking up the gallery:
[ATTACH alt="Galerie.jpg"]42656[/ATTACH]Which software do you use for the design, Katja?Mudo1991 schrieb:
Which software do you use for the designs, Katja? I’ll add that to my signature...
Architect 3D Ultimate from way back.
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