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?
Alessandro schrieb:
Why do you always ask about things that are purely a matter of taste?
Only YOU can decide that yourself!For example, I’m a bit confused here because I rarely or never see this in house catalogs or on Instagram, so I wondered why it might not be arranged that way. I don’t want to accidentally build something “strange” without realizing it.
What do you think about it?
Also, I’m not very confident in terms of style. No problem with flooring and such, but when it comes to arranging windows and sanitary fixtures so that they look good—I have no idea. The same goes for windows in general. For the bathroom, we simply chose a smaller fixed window and hope it looks nice. We just tried to keep a similar aspect ratio to the other windows.
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Alessandro8 May 2020 11:25If there are small details to consider, they are the following points:
1. If the toilet is arranged as shown, you have the installation wall panel free for any decoration. You don’t have that under the window.
2. A washbasin does not require such an installation wall. So, placing the toilet and washbasin on the same side would cost you 20cm (8 inches) of space.
3. Most people are right-handed, which makes it more comfortable to have the toilet paper holder mounted on the left side of the toilet. This also clearly supports the toilet positioning as shown in your plan.
4. When sitting on the toilet, you face into the room (as indicated in your plan), which is better than facing a wall.
1. If the toilet is arranged as shown, you have the installation wall panel free for any decoration. You don’t have that under the window.
2. A washbasin does not require such an installation wall. So, placing the toilet and washbasin on the same side would cost you 20cm (8 inches) of space.
3. Most people are right-handed, which makes it more comfortable to have the toilet paper holder mounted on the left side of the toilet. This also clearly supports the toilet positioning as shown in your plan.
4. When sitting on the toilet, you face into the room (as indicated in your plan), which is better than facing a wall.
Shiny86 schrieb:
Yes, that's true, but since the window is planned at a height of 101cm (40 inches), it would be above the installation wall and only reduce it by the necessary centimeters.
What do you think about the look? If that were your bathroom, how would you arrange it? No, I would do it like we did. Our bathroom is 1.70m x 1.70m (5 feet 7 inches x 5 feet 7 inches) and the toilet and sink are on the same wall. In your case, the toilet would be on the left wall, followed by the sink. The window could then start lower and also be larger if desired.
Regards
Sabine
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Alessandro8 May 2020 13:33Who needs such a large window in the bathroom?
Not to mention that it will make the wall on the left side too narrow.
Not to mention that it will make the wall on the left side too narrow.
I think we’ve got it now. The views also fit well.
Thank you for convincing me to include the walk-in closet. I’m sure I will appreciate the extra space.
In the end, the final version doesn’t differ too much from post #1.
But it’s the small details that make me feel it was worth it.
- We removed the third unnecessary shower and now have a sufficiently large walk-in closet.
- We have a proper access to the terrace, which is spacious enough and not blocked by the sofa or dining table.
- There are no more terrace doors on the west side. Luckily, since you wouldn’t be stepping out there anyway.
- We let in the western sun and avoided creating mirror-image layouts.
- There is enough natural light throughout the house and the windows are as tall as possible. We definitely won’t be sitting in the dark. There’s even a window in the walk-in closet, perfect for decoration.
- We removed the unnecessary dressing room and now have a large bedroom. We can place a 2m (6 ft 7 in) wide bed and still have more than 60cm (24 in) of clearance on each side.
- The bathrooms are stacked vertically.
- The children’s rooms now have a second window and won’t be in the dark when they block out the southern sunlight.
So, thanks to each and every one of you!
Is a decentralized exhaust ventilation system without heat recovery enough, or should you opt for a central exhaust system when building new? What do you have?
Thank you for convincing me to include the walk-in closet. I’m sure I will appreciate the extra space.
In the end, the final version doesn’t differ too much from post #1.
But it’s the small details that make me feel it was worth it.
- We removed the third unnecessary shower and now have a sufficiently large walk-in closet.
- We have a proper access to the terrace, which is spacious enough and not blocked by the sofa or dining table.
- There are no more terrace doors on the west side. Luckily, since you wouldn’t be stepping out there anyway.
- We let in the western sun and avoided creating mirror-image layouts.
- There is enough natural light throughout the house and the windows are as tall as possible. We definitely won’t be sitting in the dark. There’s even a window in the walk-in closet, perfect for decoration.
- We removed the unnecessary dressing room and now have a large bedroom. We can place a 2m (6 ft 7 in) wide bed and still have more than 60cm (24 in) of clearance on each side.
- The bathrooms are stacked vertically.
- The children’s rooms now have a second window and won’t be in the dark when they block out the southern sunlight.
So, thanks to each and every one of you!
Is a decentralized exhaust ventilation system without heat recovery enough, or should you opt for a central exhaust system when building new? What do you have?
For a new build, I would definitely plan for a centralized mechanical ventilation system with heat recovery. I spent some time researching decentralized ventilation options because it wasn’t clear if a central solution would be feasible during our renovation, but they had too many disadvantages for me. The main issue I often read about is noise.
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