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?
Curly schrieb:
I thought you were going with a ventilation system.
Best regards
SabineWe are too.
I mean, just in case you want to ventilate manually sometimes.
But isn’t it true that during the first 2 years, you should still ventilate manually even if you have a ventilation system?
Shiny86 schrieb:
At least now I’m no longer afraid of sitting in the dark in any room. Of course, the windows could have been chosen to be bolder or more interesting, but it’s also important to us not to feel like we’re sitting in a glass house. We felt the same way about the glass house idea. Obviously, having large window areas would have been great, but we have fairly close neighbors on all sides, and I’m not sure I would have felt comfortable.
Since your window is on the west side, some light could also reach the living room. Otherwise, I don’t think a partially blocked window makes that much difference in that area, but I hope it will be enough… I’m just not entirely sure.
It is at least 1 meter (3.3 feet) wide, and not far from that are the 2-meter (6.6 feet) terrace doors. So I’m not too worried about that. But I’ll see how it actually turns out...
If the central controlled mechanical ventilation system is installed in the floor, can I assume that I will have less ceiling height? What will happen to our 2.55-meter (8.4 feet) ceiling height then?
What do you think about the 151-centimeter (4.95 feet) wide passage from the entrance hall to the living room? I specifically planned it this way because I thought I could hang 20-centimeter (8-inch) deep Besta Ikea wall cabinets on the right wall in the hallway—between the kitchen door and the living room passage. I left 30 centimeters (12 inches) of space between the passage and the wall for that. But I’m not sure if I will actually put those cabinets up there (what really fits in cabinets only 20 centimeters (8 inches) deep?) and I’m uncertain if it will look good. How would you position the passage? It would also be possible to move it as far as possible to the right side of the plan. Would you take the windows into consideration when deciding on its location?
If the central controlled mechanical ventilation system is installed in the floor, can I assume that I will have less ceiling height? What will happen to our 2.55-meter (8.4 feet) ceiling height then?
What do you think about the 151-centimeter (4.95 feet) wide passage from the entrance hall to the living room? I specifically planned it this way because I thought I could hang 20-centimeter (8-inch) deep Besta Ikea wall cabinets on the right wall in the hallway—between the kitchen door and the living room passage. I left 30 centimeters (12 inches) of space between the passage and the wall for that. But I’m not sure if I will actually put those cabinets up there (what really fits in cabinets only 20 centimeters (8 inches) deep?) and I’m uncertain if it will look good. How would you position the passage? It would also be possible to move it as far as possible to the right side of the plan. Would you take the windows into consideration when deciding on its location?
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Alessandro19 May 2020 13:36Could you please keep posting the floor plan along with your questions? By now, it’s really difficult to keep navigating through all the pages.
Alessandro schrieb:
Could you please keep posting the floor plan with all your questions? By now, it’s really difficult to keep navigating through the pages...Sorry! Here it is
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