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?
Of course, there are some good designs that would also suit your fairly simple plot.
But to reiterate: the problem is that your wishes cannot be realized on this plot, or with a maximum width of 10 meters (33 feet), without creating other disadvantages.
The upper floor collapses if you try to fit, in addition to three bedrooms, two bathrooms with walk-in showers, a walk-in closet, and a laundry room. One issue, even if you don’t want it, is the lack of storage space.
Personally, I advise changing the external dimensions to 9 by 11.5 meters (30 by 38 feet) and rethinking the use of the bathrooms with a corresponding reduction of space-consuming extras.
Perhaps you also need to accept that a house is not a collection of nice-to-haves, but a collection of functional elements.
As @11ant has already pointed out, I have to agree that many people here have been spoiled by staged Pinterest images showing excerpts from large architect-designed homes, which give builders the impression that nothing else is being built anymore.
In doing so, they lose sight of their own plot, budget, and needs. When looked at realistically, it becomes boring.
I will now leave this thread because working with unrealistic wishes is no fun for me.
But to reiterate: the problem is that your wishes cannot be realized on this plot, or with a maximum width of 10 meters (33 feet), without creating other disadvantages.
The upper floor collapses if you try to fit, in addition to three bedrooms, two bathrooms with walk-in showers, a walk-in closet, and a laundry room. One issue, even if you don’t want it, is the lack of storage space.
Personally, I advise changing the external dimensions to 9 by 11.5 meters (30 by 38 feet) and rethinking the use of the bathrooms with a corresponding reduction of space-consuming extras.
Perhaps you also need to accept that a house is not a collection of nice-to-haves, but a collection of functional elements.
As @11ant has already pointed out, I have to agree that many people here have been spoiled by staged Pinterest images showing excerpts from large architect-designed homes, which give builders the impression that nothing else is being built anymore.
In doing so, they lose sight of their own plot, budget, and needs. When looked at realistically, it becomes boring.
I will now leave this thread because working with unrealistic wishes is no fun for me.
ypg schrieb:
Of course, there are some good designs that would also be suitable for your relatively simple plot. Could you please mention them?
We would do without a walk-in closet and washing machine upstairs. That already helps, doesn’t it?
For a good floor plan, I would also place the children's room on the west side.
The only thing I am really attached to, though, is the two bathrooms with walk-in showers on the upper floor.
And I also have to say, after going through two catalogs completely yesterday, what we have started is actually not bad at all. We are just trying to do too much.
And I realized that the very first architectural draft was actually the best, and we would have needed to change very little.
And what do we know about the demanding users mentioned? Did everyone end up happy?
And I realized that the very first architectural draft was actually the best, and we would have needed to change very little.
And what do we know about the demanding users mentioned? Did everyone end up happy?
Shiny86 schrieb:
What we initiated wasn’t bad at all. We just wanted too much.
And I realized that the very first architect’s draft was actually the best and we only needed to make minor changes. A repentant sinner is always welcome on the right path
Shiny86 schrieb:
And what do we know about the demanding users mentioned? Did they all have a happy ending? I don’t recall any reunions with those mentioned in the house pictures thread. But one of the most demanding was definitely @blaupuma, whom we did see again there. Slightly less demanding was @chrisw81 – his concerns were more about the drywall enclosures of several pipes, which had shaken his confidence in building without detailed construction drawings.
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So, I will go back to the original draft.
I will keep the layout on the upper floor as it is.
How wide does the walkway in the dressing room need to be at a minimum? Is 1 meter (3.3 feet) enough?
That also gives me more space on both sides of the bed compared to the previous drafts.
If I switch back to the original staircase instead of the platform staircase, I can also manage the wardrobe niche. Then everything fits, and basically all wishes are accommodated. However, I will still swap the living room and kitchen. A 3.30 m x 4 m (10.8 ft x 13.1 ft) chill-out area is not too small. In return, I can create a great kitchen with seating. We actually spend a lot of time in the kitchen. We cook a lot ourselves, and my daughter is always standing on the learning tower in the kitchen to snack, and we are constantly drinking coffee. If you place two comfortable chairs instead of uncomfortable stools at the peninsula, I am sure someone will be sitting there more often than on the sofa...
I will keep the layout on the upper floor as it is.
How wide does the walkway in the dressing room need to be at a minimum? Is 1 meter (3.3 feet) enough?
That also gives me more space on both sides of the bed compared to the previous drafts.
If I switch back to the original staircase instead of the platform staircase, I can also manage the wardrobe niche. Then everything fits, and basically all wishes are accommodated. However, I will still swap the living room and kitchen. A 3.30 m x 4 m (10.8 ft x 13.1 ft) chill-out area is not too small. In return, I can create a great kitchen with seating. We actually spend a lot of time in the kitchen. We cook a lot ourselves, and my daughter is always standing on the learning tower in the kitchen to snack, and we are constantly drinking coffee. If you place two comfortable chairs instead of uncomfortable stools at the peninsula, I am sure someone will be sitting there more often than on the sofa...