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?
chrisw81 schrieb:
Where did the home office go?We couldn’t find a solution. The guest toilet tucked into the utility room has made the utility room almost unusable. I think having the office on the ground floor only works if the staircase is straight. But then you have disadvantages upstairs.
Alessandro schrieb:
I agree with you. Unless it comes at the expense of the bathroom, which can only be changed by incurring high costs. Do you think we are compromising on the bathrooms?
Pinky0301 schrieb:
I don’t quite understand that. Why are you planning a third shower? And only about 1 meter (3 feet) of wardrobe space for 4 people? I find a 2-meter (6.5 feet) long wardrobe inconvenient just because of an extra hallway. It also means quite a long walk to the guest bathroom. The downstairs toilet is mainly used by us, not the guests. Jackets that aren’t being worn at the moment can also be stored in regular closets.
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Alessandro27 Apr 2020 13:34[QUOTE="Shiny86, post: 397566, member: 50531"]
Do you think we are compromising on the bathrooms?
I believe that a bathroom in the dream home should be a major comfort factor. Essentially, your own little wellness area. I wouldn’t want to make any compromises here, as it’s very difficult and costly to change later.
Therefore, I would swap the upper floor layout from top to bottom, adjust the room design slightly (make the kids’ rooms smaller), and then you would have 40 sqm (430 sq ft) plus extra for the master bedroom, main bathroom, and parents’ bathroom.
Do you think we are compromising on the bathrooms?
I believe that a bathroom in the dream home should be a major comfort factor. Essentially, your own little wellness area. I wouldn’t want to make any compromises here, as it’s very difficult and costly to change later.
Therefore, I would swap the upper floor layout from top to bottom, adjust the room design slightly (make the kids’ rooms smaller), and then you would have 40 sqm (430 sq ft) plus extra for the master bedroom, main bathroom, and parents’ bathroom.
Shiny86 schrieb:
We haven’t found a solution. Niching the guest toilet in the utility room has made the utility room almost unusable. I think a home office on the ground floor only works if the staircase is straight. But then you face disadvantages upstairs. That’s quite surprising. Such a huge house, yet no space for a study?
We have 10m² (108 sq ft) less space on the ground floor and still have a home office.
And I believe there are plenty of floor plans with a home office without a straight staircase:
The wardrobe would simply be too small for me; we had the same size before, and it wasn’t enough. Where are you supposed to put the shoes? Once the kids get bigger, they have jackets and shoes just as large as adults, and a lot of them... it’s just no fun when you don’t know where to put all their stuff. The children’s rooms seem too large to me. My children very rarely sat on the floor to play, and less space would have been sufficient for that. From around age 10, the room floor wasn’t used at all anymore; now they either lie or sit on the bed watching TV or (very rarely) at the desk. I don’t see a nice TV wall in the children’s room with you, and the opposite wall is very far away. Instead of huge children’s rooms, I would prefer a storage room or space in the hallway on the upper floor for a closet much more. We keep cleaning supplies and the vacuum cleaner up there.
Best regards
Sabine
Best regards
Sabine
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