ᐅ Floor Plan of a Narrow, Rectangular L-Shaped House on a Triangular Plot with an Oak Tree
Created on: 4 Nov 2018 10:54
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Hello everyone!
We have purchased a triangular plot of land. As if that weren’t complicated enough, there is also a large oak tree that must be considered during the planning. In our initial considerations, it quickly became clear that the floor plan will have an L-shape.
Does anyone here have experience with this type of plot and a correspondingly shaped floor plan? What additional information is needed to get meaningful advice?
Best regards
We have purchased a triangular plot of land. As if that weren’t complicated enough, there is also a large oak tree that must be considered during the planning. In our initial considerations, it quickly became clear that the floor plan will have an L-shape.
Does anyone here have experience with this type of plot and a correspondingly shaped floor plan? What additional information is needed to get meaningful advice?
Best regards
I'll put it bluntly: you can’t just use standard products for a curved wall.
The wall would probably need to be cast in solid concrete, and the windows would have to be custom-made. To look right, the windows would also need to match the curvature of the wall. Insulation panels would have to be adapted accordingly, and so on.
On top of that, standard furniture probably won’t fit properly inside either. So, a carpenter would have to create custom built-ins to accommodate the irregular angles.
This issue runs throughout the entire house.
Any savings from the plot of land are essentially lost if only half of the ground floor is built.
The wall would probably need to be cast in solid concrete, and the windows would have to be custom-made. To look right, the windows would also need to match the curvature of the wall. Insulation panels would have to be adapted accordingly, and so on.
On top of that, standard furniture probably won’t fit properly inside either. So, a carpenter would have to create custom built-ins to accommodate the irregular angles.
This issue runs throughout the entire house.
Any savings from the plot of land are essentially lost if only half of the ground floor is built.
Climbee schrieb:
The wall would probably need to be cast in solid concrete, and the windows are custom-made. To look good, they would also have to have the same curvature as the wall. Insulation boards would need to be adjusted accordingly, etc.I don’t think so. There has been a method for about 10 to 15 years now that allows you to create any curvature you want using flexible mounting panels. So you could even apply a spiral shower design to a house—using a sandwich construction with insulation inside. Prefabricated construction is usually the more streamlined choice anyway. But setting that aside: with my layman’s understanding, I would simply build the curvature with 1-meter-wide (3 feet 3 inches) windows. What other methods the architect has learned, we don’t know yet. There are also many possibilities regarding steel construction. The question is whether the client even wants something like that. There are clients who get very anxious if you present them with anything different from what everyone else has. Often, it’s hard to predict how clients will respond.
Climbee schrieb:
To put it bluntly: you can’t use standard materials for a curved wall.
The wall would probably need to be cast in solid concrete, and the windows would have to be custom-made. To look good, they’d also need to have the same curve as the wall. Insulation panels would have to be cut to fit accordingly, and so on.
On top of that, regular furniture probably won’t fit well inside either. So a carpenter would make custom built-ins to accommodate the irregular angles.
This applies to the whole house.
Any savings from the plot are already lost if only half of the ground floor is built.A carpenter isn’t necessarily more expensive than brands like Hülsta and others.
On the ground floor, you’ll barely find furniture along the curved sections since most of the windows are there.
It won’t be a bargain. Since there are dreams of an underground garage, I assume the budget is somewhat higher.
haydee schrieb:
A carpenter is not necessarily more expensive than Hülsta and similar companies.I would like to emphasize that strongly!
Mottenhausen schrieb:
What’s left now is definitely a joke, 40m² (area of the yellow space already minus the 36cm (14 inch) walls all around). ... interior walls and stairs still need to be deducted. In Tokyo, you’d probably be the king with a plot like this, but here, I can hardly see anything other than a treehouse being built.
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Mottenhausen29 Nov 2018 15:58I like the designs! You simply can’t get a single 90° corner inside the house, which doesn’t make things any easier.
As mentioned, cutting back the tree crown by about 3m (10 feet) will significantly ease the situation! Going further won’t help, since the western boundary anyway keeps getting closer to the northern and southern boundaries.
Any potential construction right along the sidewalk still needs to be approved, so I wouldn’t count on that being allowed just yet. Except for the neighbor with the unusual extension reaching all the way to the sidewalk, the houses in the area seem to maintain their required setbacks from the street according to Google Maps.
As mentioned, cutting back the tree crown by about 3m (10 feet) will significantly ease the situation! Going further won’t help, since the western boundary anyway keeps getting closer to the northern and southern boundaries.
Any potential construction right along the sidewalk still needs to be approved, so I wouldn’t count on that being allowed just yet. Except for the neighbor with the unusual extension reaching all the way to the sidewalk, the houses in the area seem to maintain their required setbacks from the street according to Google Maps.
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