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 schrieb:
Don’t you check such essentials before going into the details?
Or is this a consequence of shifting the house versus the carport? And did we say that this can only be determined after positioning the house and that it’s never wrong to plan windows? It’s just very tight, neighbors are close by. It was about 50/50. We can still plan other windows.
It’s not known yet what he plans to do. He is still at the very beginning of his planning. I hope he intends not to block the western sun, so there would be no garage, and the house would be 7-8m (23-26 feet) away. Because of the hillside location, it will also be lower than our house.
Then we could probably wave to each other from the living rooms.
It’s really unfortunate with the small plot. It was also outrageously expensive. On the other hand, the location is top-notch.
In the office, it’s not so bad because of the lack of sun. Home office would be in the morning/forenoon anyway, when the sun is there.
Are the south-facing windows in the living room enough to compensate for not having any west-facing windows? The living area is really the most important thing.
Then we could probably wave to each other from the living rooms.
It’s really unfortunate with the small plot. It was also outrageously expensive. On the other hand, the location is top-notch.
In the office, it’s not so bad because of the lack of sun. Home office would be in the morning/forenoon anyway, when the sun is there.
Are the south-facing windows in the living room enough to compensate for not having any west-facing windows? The living area is really the most important thing.
Well, you’ll have to make do with the southern sun. You definitely won’t get any afternoon sun on the sofa from the west. But you have to accept some compromise. If the neighbor also extends the 9 m (30 feet) boundary all the way to the back, it’s worth considering letting the morning sun in instead. Ideally into the kitchen – but I won’t start that discussion again now.
On the other hand, a large window front facing east in the living room is questionable. No one lounges on the sofa at 6 a.m. Unless there is frequent arguing in the bedroom and one person ends up kicked out. Otherwise, there’s simply no one there at that time.
Well, these are questions better asked at the START of the planning process. Then you’d quickly come to the conclusion that it would be more appealing to place all living areas on the south side and perhaps build something like 11.5 x 9 m (38 x 30 feet) instead.
On the other hand, a large window front facing east in the living room is questionable. No one lounges on the sofa at 6 a.m. Unless there is frequent arguing in the bedroom and one person ends up kicked out. Otherwise, there’s simply no one there at that time.
Well, these are questions better asked at the START of the planning process. Then you’d quickly come to the conclusion that it would be more appealing to place all living areas on the south side and perhaps build something like 11.5 x 9 m (38 x 30 feet) instead.
kaho674 schrieb:
The large east-facing window wall in the living room is questionable. Nobody lounges on the sofa at 6 a.m. Unless there is regular arguing in the bedroom leading to someone being kicked out, no one is there at that time. This is just to prevent the cozy corner from being too dark. Do you have any other ideas on how the windows could be positioned for that?
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