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?
I would do it the way @kbt09 suggests, using templates and tracing everything yourself. We received detailed drawings at a 1:50 scale, and I used one of them for the electrical planning, marking the colored symbols for ceiling outlets, sockets, and switches. No one cares about your furniture layout or wants to understand why you want an outlet in a particular spot. So leave out the furniture for clarity.
Shiny86 schrieb:
When it comes to furniture, do you ask the architect to correctly include the furniture layout in the floor plan, or is that my responsibility and I should use correction fluid on the floor plan and then draw the furniture layout myself? You were just born when I had already left school (and I’m not talking about 1 p.m.) – so how do you even know about correction fluid???
Tolentino schrieb:
Our electrician already mentioned that he will walk through the shell construction with us and then mark everything on the walls. That is the right time for fine adjustments, but too late for the basic planning. I mean that in general, not just regarding ceiling spotlights.
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Shiny86 schrieb:
Ok. Of course, no one cares about our furniture. I'm just afraid that incorrectly drawn furniture might confuse the electrician. As I already said: he doesn’t look at that – he is a professional and focuses on the symbols. And if you receive an execution plan: there won’t be any furniture shown.
11ant schrieb:
You were just born when I was already finishing school (and I don’t mean at one o’clock in the afternoon) – so how do you even know Tippex???
This is the right time for fine adjustments, but too late for the basic planning. I mean that generally, not just regarding ceiling spotlights. In what way? Nobody actually wants to discuss the electrical work with me beforehand. Neither the electrician nor the general contractor. When I asked, they referred me to the shell construction phase. What exactly should I decide on and communicate before that?
You don’t need to discuss that just yet; your construction specifications describe a standard electrical setup that will work. Special requests that might seem obvious to you—such as motorized roller shutters, kitchen design, alarm systems, and so on—should be planned in advance. Also, any details that need to be known during construction (for example, recessed ceiling spotlights) must be communicated by you.
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