ᐅ Floor Plan Optimization – Semi-Detached House Approximately 150 sqm
Created on: 19 May 2022 16:40
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KleinUndFein
Hello everyone,
I’m new here and would appreciate your ideas. We are planning a 150 sqm (1,615 sq ft) semi-detached house and are looking for the optimal floor plan.
Development Plan/Restrictions
The building envelope is used to its full extent.
Builders’ Requirements
- As clever a floor plan as possible
- The house will be occupied by two adults and two children (4 and 6 years old)
- The ground floor and upper floor should be able to be lived in separately (aging in place)
- No overly extravagant or expensive features should be used
- Basement with a technical room is available
- Prefer architectural style and conservative construction methods
- Open kitchen, but more of a kitchen-living area. The “living/media area” should be part of the kitchen-living space
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
- Are there better ways to use the space and are the room sizes suitable for normal use?
- Does the layout suit a family and two living units for the future?
I’m new here and would appreciate your ideas. We are planning a 150 sqm (1,615 sq ft) semi-detached house and are looking for the optimal floor plan.
Development Plan/Restrictions
The building envelope is used to its full extent.
Builders’ Requirements
- As clever a floor plan as possible
- The house will be occupied by two adults and two children (4 and 6 years old)
- The ground floor and upper floor should be able to be lived in separately (aging in place)
- No overly extravagant or expensive features should be used
- Basement with a technical room is available
- Prefer architectural style and conservative construction methods
- Open kitchen, but more of a kitchen-living area. The “living/media area” should be part of the kitchen-living space
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
- Are there better ways to use the space and are the room sizes suitable for normal use?
- Does the layout suit a family and two living units for the future?
11ant schrieb:
And it always goes back to the source, which is why I dislike that saying: the "Mommy, Mommy," so-called jokes about disabled people from the 1970s, in this case referring to those affected by thalidomide :-( It’s a normal saying... if it’s used to cause trouble or abused, then it becomes discriminatory, but the person using it in a normal way isn’t to blame.
If you start bringing in tangles, comparisons to the Nazi era, and so on, then by that logic you shouldn’t drive on certain highways, like German autobahns, dislike German shepherd dogs, and so forth.
Just let’s keep things in perspective.
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chand198624 May 2022 04:55Children…
We have already discussed with other expressions that it’s not about them lacking clarity, but rather that there are “affected” people who feel offended because of the term’s history.
@11ant is right that “no arms, no cookies” has been discredited due to crude disability jokes. The meaning of the phrase fits the original poster’s information 100%—but that doesn’t mean it should be used. There are alternatives to this expression.
“Highways” and “German Shepherds” do not have offended groups behind them, nor are there alternatives to express what they stand for. They aren’t an argument for avoiding everything.
The movie that @ypg refers to is probably “Intouchables,” which deliberately plays with the humor of disability jokes to achieve a particular effect.
Is that the one you meant, ypg?
I wouldn’t make such a big deal about it. Better to explain WHY something is problematic instead of attacking someone with a raised finger. That’s more effective and less harmful.
And @KleinUndFein: No information means no helpful advice. The idea of receiving specific partial suggestions, when the whole picture is needed to properly assess (this is how it works in housebuilding), is fundamentally wrong.
Good advice only comes when the requested information is provided. If you don’t understand why, you haven’t yet grasped a basic principle of house planning.
We have already discussed with other expressions that it’s not about them lacking clarity, but rather that there are “affected” people who feel offended because of the term’s history.
@11ant is right that “no arms, no cookies” has been discredited due to crude disability jokes. The meaning of the phrase fits the original poster’s information 100%—but that doesn’t mean it should be used. There are alternatives to this expression.
“Highways” and “German Shepherds” do not have offended groups behind them, nor are there alternatives to express what they stand for. They aren’t an argument for avoiding everything.
The movie that @ypg refers to is probably “Intouchables,” which deliberately plays with the humor of disability jokes to achieve a particular effect.
Is that the one you meant, ypg?
I wouldn’t make such a big deal about it. Better to explain WHY something is problematic instead of attacking someone with a raised finger. That’s more effective and less harmful.
And @KleinUndFein: No information means no helpful advice. The idea of receiving specific partial suggestions, when the whole picture is needed to properly assess (this is how it works in housebuilding), is fundamentally wrong.
Good advice only comes when the requested information is provided. If you don’t understand why, you haven’t yet grasped a basic principle of house planning.