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?
Shiny86 schrieb:
Do you think a hallway about 1.6m (5 feet) wide is sufficient if you don’t put any furniture in it?For me, this hallway width was easily enough, even with a shoe cabinet included, and I consider you to be quite petite.chrisw81 schrieb:
Some architects don’t really care and just do whatever the layperson accuses them of…Alessandro schrieb:
Better leave the window size to the professional, otherwise your house will look like it was drawn by a 3-year-old.A draftsman studies for three and a half years, but without this topic being part of the curriculum.Alessandro schrieb:
You usually get a 3D model where you can see everything in detail.Alessandro schrieb:
Even the smallest construction companies here have software with 3D views! Nowadays, this isn’t a luxury but a standard.Oh, so not only the usual case but also the standard, impressive. Where do you live – Grünwald, Berg am Leim, Starnberg, Herrsching? Or Hamburg’s upscale district? In Meerbusch that is [I]not standard, nor in Hahnwald, Kronberg, Homburg vdH, Ludwigsburg, or Baden-Baden.chrisw81 schrieb:
I think 3D models are only offered by very high-end providers, like Viebrockhaus, etc.Even Viebrockhaus or Büdenbender are too affordable for that; you only get it from the most elite “Dr. Dr.” star architects.Alessandro schrieb:
I don’t know your architect, but if I told mine to include stained-glass windows and a bell tower, he would have to do it.You can still get the stained-glass windows approved by a good lawyer even in the zoning area 34 in Pforzheim, but I wouldn’t be optimistic about an exception permit for the bell tower.Alessandro schrieb:
See? If he had shown you the house in a 3D model, you would probably have had more input and possibly made a different decision.No, he wouldn’t: his question was about rafter reinforcement for roof windows; and he would have made a different decision only if the 3D model had included details down to the ventilation and drainage pipes. But even 2D drawings would have shown this problem area—if only they had been produced.Alessandro schrieb:
I admit I knew almost nothing when I decided to build a house, but I was fully aware of what I wanted and needed.Now the readers following along are probably even more curious about your house than about mine.https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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11ant schrieb:
A draftsman trains for three and a half years, but this topic is not part of the curriculum.In our case, it was actually an architect from the construction company who gave us a few minutes of advice. Of course, the drawings were done by the draftsmen for him, so I did not expect any improvements from them. But an architect is an architect, and even though he is employed by the company and not self-employed, I have certain expectations.
I tend to see it more as a lack of planning or ignorance on the part of the clients, which negates the architect’s potential for better work. However, with our architect, I also didn’t get the feeling that he was eager to develop a great floor plan from scratch with us — maybe he was already jaded by the volume of budget builders who simply want a standard house without architectural ambition.
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Alessandro16 Apr 2020 16:50I don’t understand why 3D renderings are dismissed as something unusual. There are even members here in the forum who can produce them effortlessly. My building engineer only took less than an hour for the first 2D and 3D designs. Maybe we are talking past each other. I’m of course not referring to a 3D cardboard model like those used in architectural competitions, but a 3D computer model...
Alessandro schrieb:
Maybe we are talking past each other. Of course, I don’t mean a cardboard 3D model like those used in architectural competitions, but rather a 3D computer model... You wrote
Alessandro schrieb:
a 3D model where you can see everything in detail chrisw81 schrieb:
But an architect is an architect, even if employed at the building contractor (BU) If the client is covered by statutory health insurance (= only pays an all-inclusive fee to the building contractor for the building permit/planning permission phase), the employed professional only acts as a draftsman processing documents, not as an intellectual architect. What you pay for is what you get.
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11ant schrieb:
If the client is covered by public health insurance (= only pays all-inclusive for the building application planning at the building contractor), the employed specialist acts only as a draftsman and not as an intellectual architect. What you pay for is what you get. Exactly. That’s how it is with us. I can’t change it anymore. But I try to save what can be saved.
And I don’t have a sofa problem or a hallway problem.
The hallway is currently 1.8 m (5 feet 11 inches), and I just don’t want to allocate unnecessary square meters to the hallway. I’d rather have my TV placed 20 cm (8 inches) further away.
Alessandro schrieb:
I don’t understand why 3D views are dismissed as something unusual. On one hand, I can confirm that 3D views are not a standard feature for construction companies. On the other hand, I understand and share your opinion. I would have expected that with today's "design software," a 3D view would be created almost automatically and wouldn’t be an issue. If even an open-source program like Sweet Home 3D can manage it (albeit far from perfect), you would think that professional architectural software offers this feature at the push of a button. But perhaps the software manufacturers charge extra for this additional function, and then construction companies might say, "No, we won’t order that; if customers want something like that, they have to pay the architect separately," or something similar.
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