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?
So you mean the partition wall maze between the master and children's bathrooms? I had definitely already suggested using gypsum board for that. But my main recommendation was to return to a functional initial design, especially since the cost of the drywall complications for your floor plan tinkering was clearly high enough for you to ask for a remedy. When you revisit the design, you could also consider completely omitting the bathroom separation (even though it would be a pity, considering the proposals for the partition wall layout).
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No, it’s not just about the partition walls, but all the walls. This includes the utility room and guest WC as well. They are currently being built with limestone sand blocks. Is this necessary for sound insulation?
Here are the current floor plans. The kitchen and living room haven’t been switched back yet.
The bathroom/toilet layouts have been slightly shifted/improved.
The ledge in the dressing room on the upper floor has been removed. Instead, there is now a ledge more centered in the guest room.
Do you think this is a problem?
I haven’t seen anything like this before, or maybe I just didn’t notice.
Would you accept it like this, or for example, hide it by moving the door towards the bottom of the plan and having it open against that wall (i.e., towards the window)?
Here are the current floor plans. The kitchen and living room haven’t been switched back yet.
The bathroom/toilet layouts have been slightly shifted/improved.
The ledge in the dressing room on the upper floor has been removed. Instead, there is now a ledge more centered in the guest room.
Do you think this is a problem?
I haven’t seen anything like this before, or maybe I just didn’t notice.
Would you accept it like this, or for example, hide it by moving the door towards the bottom of the plan and having it open against that wall (i.e., towards the window)?
Shiny86 schrieb:
I can’t quite follow. I thought the peninsula was 90cm (35 inches) wide? Why is it now 1.8m (6 feet) wide? I imagine 60cm (24 inches) of work surface and 30cm (12 inches) of bar top = 90cm (35 inches). Sorry, 1.8m (6 feet) long. 90cm (35 inches) wide. I think that’s also a standard width. I actually find 1.2m (47 inches) almost too wide for an island.
chrisw81 schrieb:
Sorry, 1.8 m (6 feet) long. 90 cm (35 inches) wide. I think that is also a standard width. I find 1.2 m (4 feet) almost too wide for an island.Do you only cook or wash there, or do you do both?
People choose 1.2 m (4 feet) because then you can open drawers from both sides.
Shiny86 schrieb:
Are you only cooking or washing there, or doing both?
A width of 1.2m (4 feet) is common because it allows you to open drawers from both sides. In the dining room, I don’t want to pull out drawers. We have doors there, as well as an open shelf. It looks very nice. It also doesn’t need to be very deep; 30cm (12 inches) depth is enough for glasses. You can easily reach everything.
On the island, we don’t have any function at all; washing and cooking are done on the other side (exterior wall). Of course, the cooktop could have been installed on the island, but we didn’t want a range hood hanging in the room. Also, I think it’s inconvenient to wash ingredients and then carry them to the other side. This way, everything is on one side (with a countertop between the sink and the cooktop), which creates a nice workflow. On the island, we only have a blender. Otherwise, we rarely use the surface there.
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