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?
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Alessandro16 Apr 2020 08:37Better leave the window size planning to a professional; otherwise, your house might end up looking like it was designed by a 3-year-old.
ypg schrieb:
Yes
For our house and our bedroom, no. In the living areas, we only have windows 1 and 2 meters (3 ft 3 in and 6 ft 7 in) wide.
Tip:
A house should limit itself to just a few window shapes and sizes. That’s a design principle—too much mixing doesn’t look good.
This applies to the sill height, widths, and sashes. A 2-meter (6 ft 7 in) double sash window visually reads like two 1-meter (3 ft 3 in) windows. It doesn’t go well with a 150-centimeter (4 ft 11 in) window, where the equivalent sash size would be 75 centimeters (2 ft 6 in). A good architect or expert will plan accordingly. Would you maybe make a photo to show how that looks?
I think 1-meter (3 ft 3 in) and 2-meter (6 ft 7 in) windows look nicer than 178- and 88-centimeter (5 ft 10 in and 2 ft 11 in) ones. I really like 176 centimeters (5 ft 9 in) combined. But as a single window, 88 centimeters (2 ft 11 in) is quite narrow, right?
Do you think it’s possible to visually mix 176-centimeter (5 ft 9 in) double sash and 1-meter (3 ft 3 in) single sash windows? @Curly you have that setup, or do you also have 88-centimeter (2 ft 11 in) windows?
Mostly, I’d stick to the 1-meter (3 ft 3 in) and 2-meter (6 ft 7 in) line, but in kids’ rooms and the office, something else would work. The only double sash that fits these room sizes is 1.51 meters (4 ft 11 in).
Alessandro schrieb:
Better leave the window size planning to a professional; otherwise, your house might end up looking like it was drawn by a 3-year-old I don’t have anyone for that. Not everyone has the same taste. Isn’t it possible to plan that yourself?
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Alessandro16 Apr 2020 09:11And who is building your house?
Shiny86 schrieb:
I don’t have anyone for that. Not everyone has the same taste. Isn’t it possible to plan it yourself? Of course, you can plan everything yourself; your building partner probably doesn’t care much about your window design. We have floor-to-ceiling windows that are 1.76m (5 ft 9 in) high, but also several 1m (3 ft 3 in) wide windows with sills, as well as a 1m (3 ft 3 in) wide floor-to-ceiling window.
In our previous house, the living room had floor-to-ceiling windows that were 2m (6 ft 7 in) wide, which looked nice, and you can of course do the same in the bedroom. You need to look at the exterior views of each side of the house, and everything has to be harmonious—that is, the outer edges of the windows should align, or the window sizes should match; it simply has to look good. For example, it doesn’t look good if one side of the house has five different window sizes or if the house is 10m (33 ft) wide but only has two very small windows on that entire side.
Best regards,
Sabine
Alessandro schrieb:
Better let a professional plan the window sizes, otherwise your house might end up looking like it was drawn by a 3-year-old That's true, we also tried planning ourselves and in some places it does look a bit awkward. Some architects don’t mind at all and just accept whatever the layperson criticizes them about...Similar topics