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?
11ant schrieb:
NF basically means 11.5 cm (4.5 inches) thick; as a facing brick in front of an external thermal insulation composite system (ETICS) and an air gap, that’s practically the only way. Was the brickwork your preference? - I interpret the 14 cm (5.5 inches) here as the total of two layers; otherwise, mentioning staggered joints wouldn’t make sense. If you wanted a monolithic wall, I would apply the facing bricks as thin slips on top and rather use more bricks (30 cm / 12 inches); with 36.5 cm (14.4 inches) brick behind the facing bricks, the overall thickness difference would be even smaller – keep in mind my mantra: “use the wall structure your builder is accustomed to.” There was a choice between plaster and facing bricks, and we chose facing bricks.
We’ve taken your mantra on board! They build it this way, and I’m not going to come with a special wall construction request now.
My question was more out of curiosity because none of the general contractors I asked about had suggested the 36.5 cm (14.4 inches) build thickness.
Simon-189 schrieb:
With aerated concrete, it actually gets trickier when it comes to the awning. So it’s better to hang it on the concrete ceiling.Do you have more experience with awnings?
That’s not great news for me. We also don’t know which awning we will choose yet. We will decide on that after moving in.
Regarding the awning, the only thing I can prepare is to talk to the electrician and have a cable installed for the motor, right?
Simon-189 schrieb:
The 36.5cm (14 inches) was probably meant as an offset on the outer edge of the concrete ceiling. But for a landing staircase, that hardly makes sense to me. Maybe a leftover from an earlier version of the plans? And yes, that’s probably it. @11ant got it right. The architect wanted to design a handrail for us. We didn’t want it that way, plus the staircase landing and the door to the storage room were supposed to be at the same level. So he changed it but apparently didn’t adjust everything accordingly.
Don’t these design programs handle such things automatically? You have to check every little detail. Annoying.
Shiny86 schrieb:
@Yaso2.0 Do you already have a finalized floor plan now?No, unfortunately we don’t. We are starting over from scratch.
Shiny86 schrieb:
Regarding the awning, the only thing I can prepare is to talk to the electrician and have a cable installed for the motor, right?No, you’re not listening carefully. You need to understand that you can’t just prepare a cable or the cable route, and then calmly shop for awnings after the storm has passed. The awning dealer will tell you that the awning needs to be anchored at the level of the floor slab, and that an insulation connector would have been required there. Miss, now you’re too late – we need a huge support frame because of that.https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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