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
Okay, I’ll drop the 10.8m by 10.8m (35.4 ft by 35.4 ft) idea.
That’s a lot more money for nothing. No added value.
What does bd/dd 20/20 mean?
Does that mean I get a 0.2m by 0.2m (8 in by 8 in) recess? Like in the wardrobe or the parents’ shower? So I wouldn’t be able to place a closet as originally planned, and there would be a protrusion like that in the shower?
Okay, I’ll drop the 10.8m by 10.8m (35.4 ft by 35.4 ft) idea.
That’s a lot more money for nothing. No added value.
What does bd/dd 20/20 mean?
Does that mean I get a 0.2m by 0.2m (8 in by 8 in) recess? Like in the wardrobe or the parents’ shower? So I wouldn’t be able to place a closet as originally planned, and there would be a protrusion like that in the shower?
BD/DD = floor penetration/ceiling penetration
In the shower, there is only a floor penetration, so no projection. In the dressing room, the soil stack is vented (through the roof), so there is already a projection here.
It couldn’t be concealed within the toilet’s pre-wall system because otherwise, it would be in front of the guest room window on the ground floor, I assume. Whether the vent could be rerouted as an auxiliary vent within the pre-wall system so that you could at least save the shaft in the dressing room, I don’t know.
There will also be a shaft in the living room.
Edith says I was too late.
In the shower, there is only a floor penetration, so no projection. In the dressing room, the soil stack is vented (through the roof), so there is already a projection here.
It couldn’t be concealed within the toilet’s pre-wall system because otherwise, it would be in front of the guest room window on the ground floor, I assume. Whether the vent could be rerouted as an auxiliary vent within the pre-wall system so that you could at least save the shaft in the dressing room, I don’t know.
There will also be a shaft in the living room.
Edith says I was too late.
Shiny86 schrieb:
What does bd/dd 20/20 mean?
Does that mean I have a 0.2m×0.2m (8×8 inches) projection? Like in the walk-in closet or the parents’ shower? So I wouldn’t be able to place a cabinet as originally planned, and there would be a projection in the shower? No idea – just give the post number of the plan you’re asking about. The abbreviations have already been explained, but the actual implications can only be guessed from the specific plan. On one hand, these could be harmless penetrations for controlled residential ventilation ducts or similar—that is, something you won’t even notice on the finished floor. But they could also be elements that affect the room itself. Especially if BD and DD appear stacked in the same room, you can reasonably suspect that the 20/20 dimension refers to a pipe shaft. This results from energy saving regulations that no longer allow chasing down exterior walls for drainage pipes. Wherever cabinets are supposed to be installed, you should basically be “seeing red” when such items are marked. For today’s generously sized group showers, a “walk-in” doesn’t automatically become a no-go just because a pipe is boxed in at the back corner – for symmetry purists, of course, it’s a disaster: then the faucet’s alignment is off *LOL*
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Thank you all.
Here are the current plans.
Can you guess what it might look like visually?
And how it could be improved?
I want to be able to place my wardrobes inside the walk-in closet.
What is that on the kitchen peninsula? There is a symbol without a label.
Also, I don’t like that next to the couch in the living room. It takes away 20cm (8 inches) of sofa space, and visually, I would actually prefer not to have that little piece of wall there.
Here are the current plans.
Can you guess what it might look like visually?
And how it could be improved?
I want to be able to place my wardrobes inside the walk-in closet.
What is that on the kitchen peninsula? There is a symbol without a label.
Also, I don’t like that next to the couch in the living room. It takes away 20cm (8 inches) of sofa space, and visually, I would actually prefer not to have that little piece of wall there.
Well, that’s how it is. The drain pipe from the children’s bathroom runs down next to the sofa. If the wall stub there is not a lintel support—which requires the living and dining areas to flow into each other without separation—this drain pipe could be integrated into the wall of child 2’s room. The drain pipe for the shower and washbasins in the parents’ bathroom runs down next to the wardrobe in the guest room, and from the dressing area to the head of the guest bed there is probably a drain pipe for the toilet in the parents’ bathroom. The sink also needs a drain, so you have to imagine “DD” written there. These drywall imperfections are the price of “social villa construction” with non-aligned walls. This is almost unavoidable if you want to plan “cash” and “private” in this format.
Anyone who wants to avoid this must be willing in this segment to adopt functional standard layouts or learn to think in terms of structural engineering and building services (plumbing and drainage) instead of relying on rosy Pinterest pattern house images.
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
Anyone who wants to avoid this must be willing in this segment to adopt functional standard layouts or learn to think in terms of structural engineering and building services (plumbing and drainage) instead of relying on rosy Pinterest pattern house images.
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
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