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?
@kaho674
Wow, you did a great job on this at short notice!
Could you create a version without a balcony/terrace? Also, the kids’ bathroom definitely needs a bathtub, a built-in shower, and should be larger than ours. The parents’ bathroom can be smaller than the kids’, but should have a large built-in shower and two sinks. No bathtub is needed there since we hardly ever bathe, and if necessary, we can use the kids’ bathroom. The children are still very young and will bathe for many years before they can shower on their own.
Thanks also for all the posts about the fill. I will address that in my next post.
Wow, you did a great job on this at short notice!
Could you create a version without a balcony/terrace? Also, the kids’ bathroom definitely needs a bathtub, a built-in shower, and should be larger than ours. The parents’ bathroom can be smaller than the kids’, but should have a large built-in shower and two sinks. No bathtub is needed there since we hardly ever bathe, and if necessary, we can use the kids’ bathroom. The children are still very young and will bathe for many years before they can shower on their own.
Thanks also for all the posts about the fill. I will address that in my next post.
Shiny86 schrieb:
Can you do something like this without a balcony/terrace? I’m afraid I can’t pull a magic solution out of thin air. Don’t forget that your architect’s proposal wasn’t the worst option.
With designs like this, it’s always the same: when you focus on one aspect, another usually suffers, unless you want to increase the size endlessly. In the end, it’s a matter of prioritizing. So, do you prefer a gallery with a wow factor or a larger children’s bathroom?
In the floor plan shown, you could easily replace the shower in the kids’ bathroom with a bathtub, simply omit the balcony, and reduce your bathroom size a bit—remove the bathtub there—and instead enlarge the shower with a double sink:
These are relatively minor adjustments, so there’s no need to discard the entire design. You also gain something in return. Not everyone gets this kind of view through their home:
The same applies to the architect’s design. I didn’t find it bad. A few small changes actually brought good solutions. For any particular wish, you will probably have to compromise—or increase your budget.
Thank you for your effort!
I like your very first suggestion with the entrance through the cloakroom based on the architect’s design the most.
I am just concerned about how the staircase appears in the architect’s design. The balustrade is half enclosed. Can that look good?
I have never seen anything like this myself and can’t find any examples on Instagram or Google Images. Is this kind of half enclosure common?
I like your very first suggestion with the entrance through the cloakroom based on the architect’s design the most.
I am just concerned about how the staircase appears in the architect’s design. The balustrade is half enclosed. Can that look good?
I have never seen anything like this myself and can’t find any examples on Instagram or Google Images. Is this kind of half enclosure common?
I definitely don’t want to be responsible if you end up not liking how it looks.
If you’re generally happy with it but just stuck on a small detail like this, sometimes you have to bite the bullet and buy an extra 2 square meters. Here’s a version measuring 11.4m x 9.9m (37.4 ft x 32.5 ft), which is 2.61m² (28 sq ft) more than the original design. It’s not a big difference, but it lets you have your staircase fully lit and open, bright and cheerful:
I’ve left out the clutter and windows for now. This whole layout is based on #17 — just longer and narrower.
If you’re generally happy with it but just stuck on a small detail like this, sometimes you have to bite the bullet and buy an extra 2 square meters. Here’s a version measuring 11.4m x 9.9m (37.4 ft x 32.5 ft), which is 2.61m² (28 sq ft) more than the original design. It’s not a big difference, but it lets you have your staircase fully lit and open, bright and cheerful:
I’ve left out the clutter and windows for now. This whole layout is based on #17 — just longer and narrower.
ltenzer schrieb:
The original poster specifically asked in the opening post whether they should raise the house to street level. This also relates to drainage issues; in most of the houses I know, rainwater flows away from the garage driveway towards the street. If you are already sensible enough not to attach the house directly to the garage, I recommend adopting that approach mentally as well. It is not always necessary to build elevated mounds on sloping sites.
kaho674 schrieb:
I will put that in my signature... Then I’ll take that as inspiration.
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@kaho674
Okay, the new dimensions seem a bit extreme to me.
But the idea of extending it for the staircase is good.
Could you please show me something else?
What if the length is only extended as much as necessary so the staircase isn’t blocked?
I could also reduce the living room width by 10-20cm (4-8 inches). Then it might only be 40-50cm (16-20 inches) longer overall. For example, the house could be narrowed by those centimeters. How would that affect the room layout? Maybe that would already help?
Okay, the new dimensions seem a bit extreme to me.
But the idea of extending it for the staircase is good.
Could you please show me something else?
What if the length is only extended as much as necessary so the staircase isn’t blocked?
I could also reduce the living room width by 10-20cm (4-8 inches). Then it might only be 40-50cm (16-20 inches) longer overall. For example, the house could be narrowed by those centimeters. How would that affect the room layout? Maybe that would already help?
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