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?
ltenzer schrieb:
Regarding the TV location again, I just can’t help myself...
For our house, I’m also planning to integrate the TV into the window wall for another reason: if the screen is positioned perpendicular to a window or even opposite one, daylight will always cause reflections of the window on the TV screen. You can avoid this by placing the TV along the window wall.
If you need some arguments to convince your husband, I hope this helps. I also have the TV directly opposite a window and haven’t noticed any reflections so far. True, it is positioned a bit lower in our case, but we find that fine. If it were placed higher, there might possibly be reflections.
I’d like to ask a different question, which might have been discussed before... do you actually need or want a study/guest room? Just the amount of documents we already have—I don’t know where to put them all. Where do you plan to store everything? And I don’t really see a proper storage room either; you can’t fit everything into the walk-in closet. We already have quite a bit there. Even in the study and storage room, we barely manage to store everything we have.
No, I don’t hoard anything. Decluttering is my hobby and it makes me feel free. No joke. You can also declutter documents. And 2-3 folders can fit in the sideboard. We can store some things in the attic, and there is a storage space under the stairs. I plan to have lots of cabinets in the kitchen for storage. Maybe a shelf could fit in the utility room as well.
Shiny86 schrieb:
No, I’m not a hoarder. Decluttering is my hobby and it frees me up. No joke. You can also declutter documents. And 2-3 binders fit easily in the sideboard. We can store some things in the attic, and there’s a storage space under the stairs. I’m planning the kitchen with lots of cabinets for storage. Maybe we can add a shelf in the utility room as well. You’ll be surprised how much you want to store in the house. Just vacuum cleaners, cleaning supplies, and so on. Drink crates, for example. That already fills up the utility room. Then there are Christmas decorations, Easter decorations, candles, small items. You definitely don’t want to use the kitchen as storage.
And I haven’t even mentioned hobbies yet… like a guitar or something similar.
But okay, it will work out.
Where do your guests sleep? And don’t say the living room — no guest wants to sleep in the living room.
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