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?
Let’s be serious for a moment:
Is there any reason not to start completely from scratch? With so many posts, I’ve lost track.
Is the financing already finalized? If so, there could be issues with commitment interest and/or the total construction cost and the needed loan.
Has the apartment been terminated?
The decision whether to include a basement or not is so crucial that I personally wouldn’t just add the basement beneath without careful consideration.
It opens up entirely new possibilities.
This is a perfect example of why it’s best to consider the topography of the plot from the very beginning. The way things are going now, it’s the worst case scenario...
Is there any reason not to start completely from scratch? With so many posts, I’ve lost track.
Is the financing already finalized? If so, there could be issues with commitment interest and/or the total construction cost and the needed loan.
Has the apartment been terminated?
The decision whether to include a basement or not is so crucial that I personally wouldn’t just add the basement beneath without careful consideration.
It opens up entirely new possibilities.
This is a perfect example of why it’s best to consider the topography of the plot from the very beginning. The way things are going now, it’s the worst case scenario...
Shiny86 schrieb:
Apparently, the earthworks are very expensive. We’ve been called in for a meeting with the construction company because they want to ask if we really want to build as planned. Possibly, we could build a basement for about the same cost.
I’m really frustrated. Why are they bringing this up so late? Is this normal? What did the soil report say back then? That’s usually done before planning—especially on a hillside.
haydee schrieb:
The hillside was initially cut into, but you didn’t address that. It has to be an urban villa; they’re going to fill it in. I think I actually dropped out of the discussion for exactly that reason—because I found debating an elevated urban villa instead of an urban villa built into the hill absolutely pointless.
Shiny86 schrieb:
The utility room could be converted into an office/guest room. The upper floor could stay as it is. Honestly, I would go back to square one and include the hillside in the planning instead of placing the building without a plan. Then put a nice basement under the ground floor.
Shiny86 schrieb:
My husband and I. Don’t always take it personally.You addressed US directly here in the forum. So, what about him now?K1300S schrieb:
Whether it’s due to the topography is not clear. I had rather understood that it is because of the geology. Has someone perhaps conducted a geotechnical report too late? Yes, apparently. The structural engineering was done only after the building permit/planning permission was granted, and the geotechnical report was used only for the structural design. Poor soil quality was assumed from the start during planning, so the earthworks were estimated high (with a buffer). We always thought that building on a slab foundation would not be a problem. We don’t like basements, and we were told that building with a basement would definitely be very expensive. That’s why we never considered a basement. Our neighbor had his plot well elevated, so he has a basement with living space. He definitely wanted an apartment in the basement for his older son. In addition, he built two full floors. So he has living space on three levels. That never crossed our minds.
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