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?
Ok, then I'll play it safe and have it made 1 meter deep (3 feet 3 inches).
Do you find this guest bathroom plumbing layout strange? If so, why, and how would you arrange it?
I’m asking because there isn’t a window next to the sink like this in the floor plan catalogs. For some reason, you can’t find my layout there.
Do you find this guest bathroom plumbing layout strange? If so, why, and how would you arrange it?
I’m asking because there isn’t a window next to the sink like this in the floor plan catalogs. For some reason, you can’t find my layout there.
Shiny86 schrieb:
I can’t find my layout for some reason.Perhaps it’s because you’re breaking up the exterior view too much. Just a tip: when you look at your house in reality, you rarely focus only on the front view. You usually see several sides at the same time. No matter how perfectly symmetrical the front might be, if the adjacent side looks like a Hundertwasser copycat, it will look mismatched overall.At the toilet and the sink, there is still a pre-wall installation, which for us, including the tile baseboard, is 1.20m (4 feet) high. You would need to check whether the window starts above this installation wall or if the wall is interrupted at the window.
Best regards
Sabine
Best regards
Sabine
kaho674 schrieb:
Maybe because you’re breaking up the exterior view too much. Just a tip: when you look at your house in reality, you rarely focus only on the front view. You see several sides at once. So no matter how perfectly symmetrical the front might be, if the adjoining side looks like a Hundertwasser copycat, it ends up looking mismatched.I don’t care about that. I can’t achieve symmetry on all sides. The front and garden sides are important to us, yes, but for the west and east sides I focused on functionality and how to arrange the furniture. The neighbors on the right and left are so close. From a distance, you can’t really see the sides properly. For example, if I can’t furnish the kids’ rooms, symmetry stops making sense to me.
But that’s true. Floor plans in catalogs are all about symmetry.
I actually really like the guest toilet now, since its window faces the side and not the street. Do you think it looks mismatched?
There’s often the option with a window above the toilet bowl. I could do that too if I place the toilet on the same wall as the washbasin. Would that look better?
I arranged it as drawn because I thought it would allow more space around the toilet bowl and a side window might look nicer.
A toilet window facing north would ruin the symmetry of the front for me. Besides, the current window on the west side offers better privacy.
How would you handle it? You’re not really that big on symmetry, are you?
Curly schrieb:
There is a wall-mounted installation frame for the toilet and the sink; in our case, including the tile baseboard, it is 1.20 m high (4 feet). You would need to check whether the window starts above this installation wall or if the wall is interrupted at the window.
Best regards,
SabineYes, that's correct, but since the window is planned at a height of 1.01 m (3 feet 4 inches), it will be above the installation wall or shortened by the necessary centimeters.
What do you think about it aesthetically? If this were your bathroom, how would you do it?
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Alessandro8 May 2020 10:37Why do you always ask about things that are purely a matter of personal taste? Only YOU can decide that yourself!
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