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?
Simon-189 schrieb:
The 36.5 cm (14.4 inches) wall itself doesn’t really matter whether or not there is an awning attached. The important thing is that enough (adhesive) anchors are planned. But this should then be calculated by the awning manufacturer, as they know the awning’s dead load and the size of the additional forces involved. Well, it’s not quite that simple.
There are indeed companies that no longer install awnings on T8 or T9 walls. I experienced this myself when requesting a quote for a Markilux awning.
We were lucky to have a concrete overlay above the ceiling at the window element. Although it has an 8 cm (3.1 inches) PUR insulation layer on the outside, the awning could be mounted here without load.
Yaso2.0 schrieb:
@Shiny86 I have a question: In your floor plans, I see that your exterior walls are 36.5 cm (14 inches) thick. Could you please explain your wall construction? Are you actually building to KfW standards now?We are building according to the Energy Saving Regulation. Is it actually possible to still achieve a KfW standard, for example through controlled residential ventilation, or can the KfW standards only be met through specific planning?
The wall construction is, as @11ant suspected, a monolithic wall built with 36.5 cm (14 inches) aerated concrete blocks using thin-bed mortar.
Could you take a look at the landing staircase? I’m worried I might be missing something. Do you know what the 36.5 cm (14 inches) refers to and why the first few steps are drawn unevenly?
I’m not sure what information can be derived from this. From the landing up to the upper floor, I would like a half-height wall to run slanted.
matte1987 schrieb:
Could you please link the latest version? If you click the share icon at the top right of the post with the plans, you will get a link that leads directly to that post.I have just edited my post. Now you can see the staircase. However, the current plans are not yet available in this thread. I have attached them here. Please let me know if you notice anything.
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Simon-18915 Oct 2020 13:51Shiny86 schrieb:
The wall structure is, as @11ant suspected, a monolithic wall built from 36.5cm (14.4 inches) aerated concrete blocks using thin-bed mortar. Oh, I had assumed T8 or T9 bricks. With aerated concrete, the awning actually becomes trickier. So it’s probably better to hang it from the concrete ceiling.
Shiny86 schrieb:
Could you take a look at the landing stairs? I’m worried I might be missing something. Do you know what the 36.5cm (14.4 inches) refers to and why the first few steps are drawn unevenly? The 36.5cm (14.4 inches) might indicate an offset at the outer edge of the concrete ceiling. But that doesn’t really make sense to me for a landing staircase. Possibly a leftover from an earlier version of the plans?
Shiny86 schrieb:
Do you know what the 36.5cm (14 inches) refers to and why the first few steps are drawn unevenly?
I’m not sure what information can be taken from this. From the landing up to the upper floor, I want a half-height wall to slope along with the stairs. It seems to me that the line between the first and second step was forgotten or mistakenly drawn exactly on the edge of the stair opening. I interpret the 36.5cm (14 inches) here as the offset between the stair opening edge above the exit and the bend where the “roof slope” under the stairs meets the ceiling of the floor. The drawing suggests your wish for a masonry “handrail wall” (presumably similar to what @matte1987 wants?) will be fulfilled.
Simon-189 schrieb:
Oh, I was assuming T8 or T9 bricks. With aerated concrete, it actually gets trickier to install the awning. So it’s better to hang it from the concrete ceiling instead. That’s why I was wondering if there might also be “isolation baskets” for something like this.
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