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?
ypg schrieb:
Your parents’ area just doesn’t work,
@kaho674 has already got the right approach there Call me Kati, darling.
kaho674 schrieb:
Call me Kati, darling. I’ll call you darling too, Kati, if you want :-*I already like Kaho’s proposal.
However, I can’t quite imagine the staircase anymore. You go up and immediately have a ceiling above you that gets closer and closer? Doesn’t that feel cramped?
Upstairs, in the hallway, there’s only light coming through a window above the garage by the staircase. What about the window? Will there be enough light to keep the hallway bright enough?
However, I can’t quite imagine the staircase anymore. You go up and immediately have a ceiling above you that gets closer and closer? Doesn’t that feel cramped?
Upstairs, in the hallway, there’s only light coming through a window above the garage by the staircase. What about the window? Will there be enough light to keep the hallway bright enough?
Where is the issue?
Above the stairs, the space is open up to the ceiling of the upper floor. So there is plenty of room. This is always the case when there is no staircase above. The lighting should be about the same as in the current design or even better. Right now, you have a wall in front of half the window on the upper floor. Did you notice that?
Here, I drew in a few windows for you:
Here’s also a view down the stairs, although the illustration shows a half-landing staircase because my software doesn’t support the other type. The window and door frames all have an awful color, etc., but maybe this helps to give an idea?
Now you could also consider making the window floor-to-ceiling to make it larger and more attractive. Then the adjacent windows should also be floor-to-ceiling for aesthetic reasons, which wouldn’t be a problem.
Above the stairs, the space is open up to the ceiling of the upper floor. So there is plenty of room. This is always the case when there is no staircase above. The lighting should be about the same as in the current design or even better. Right now, you have a wall in front of half the window on the upper floor. Did you notice that?
Here, I drew in a few windows for you:
Here’s also a view down the stairs, although the illustration shows a half-landing staircase because my software doesn’t support the other type. The window and door frames all have an awful color, etc., but maybe this helps to give an idea?
Now you could also consider making the window floor-to-ceiling to make it larger and more attractive. Then the adjacent windows should also be floor-to-ceiling for aesthetic reasons, which wouldn’t be a problem.
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