ᐅ Ideas for Designing a Single-Family Home on a Sloped Site. Tips Welcome.
Created on: 29 May 2018 13:51
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Tonkammer
Hello everyone,
I’m new here but have been reading your posts with great interest.
Now to the topic:
My wife and I would like to build a single-family house on a sloped site. There are some regulations regarding the development plan (36-42° gable roof, knee wall 0.25m (10 inches), boundary fencing, etc.).
The plot—actually two plots combined—is about 1,100m² (12,000 sq ft) and slopes downhill.
Our idea is to enter the house from the street level, then go down to the living area to access the terrace outside.
What we want to avoid is the impression that you’re going down into a basement.
Later in life, the lower floor could be converted into the main living area with access around the house.
I’m quite handy and have many friends and family members working in construction, so we plan to do a lot ourselves.
What’s also important to us:
I need a large workshop. My wife would like an open staircase with a void space above. Two children’s rooms and large open-plan spaces. A small fireplace in the living room.
Housebuilding info:
Preferred heating: pellet stove
Hollow brick 48.5cm (19 inches) without insulation?
Underfloor heating, solar panels
Attached are self-drawn plans based on our ideas. It would be great if you could share your opinions on them.
I’m new here but have been reading your posts with great interest.
Now to the topic:
My wife and I would like to build a single-family house on a sloped site. There are some regulations regarding the development plan (36-42° gable roof, knee wall 0.25m (10 inches), boundary fencing, etc.).
The plot—actually two plots combined—is about 1,100m² (12,000 sq ft) and slopes downhill.
Our idea is to enter the house from the street level, then go down to the living area to access the terrace outside.
What we want to avoid is the impression that you’re going down into a basement.
Later in life, the lower floor could be converted into the main living area with access around the house.
I’m quite handy and have many friends and family members working in construction, so we plan to do a lot ourselves.
What’s also important to us:
I need a large workshop. My wife would like an open staircase with a void space above. Two children’s rooms and large open-plan spaces. A small fireplace in the living room.
Housebuilding info:
Preferred heating: pellet stove
Hollow brick 48.5cm (19 inches) without insulation?
Underfloor heating, solar panels
Attached are self-drawn plans based on our ideas. It would be great if you could share your opinions on them.
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Tonkammer29 May 2018 15:20haydee schrieb:
Could you please convert the PDF files to JPG and fill out the questionnaire?
https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/grundrissplanung-unbedingt-vor-Beitrag-Erstellung-lesen.11714/
At first glance
Attic
The children's room doesn't work. 20 sqm (215 sq ft) sounds like a lot, but due to the knee wall and roof slope, there is hardly any standing height. Please mark the 2-meter (6.6 ft) height line.
The bathroom as well.
The hallway is extremely large for no purpose.
Ground floor
A lot of hallway space, even though it is designated for reading and working. Why not have a separate office?
If it’s a reading corner, there should also be space for shelves.
The bedroom, dressing room, and bathroom are small compared to the floor area.
Basement Spacious
Why have a bunker that causes a feeling of claustrophobia?
Very large house, almost bulky, very few rooms and these are very small. Without losing quality, it can be much smaller. Definitely check the 2-meter (6.6 ft) height line in the attic. It should be similar to ours, and rooms don’t work well that way.I will do the questionnaire and convert to JPEG when I’m home.
Attic children’s room:
I will mark the 2-meter (6.6 ft) height line.
Ground floor:
No office room because we wanted to avoid a “corridor” effect if all rooms were on the left side.
I have now reduced the staircase void so that the other rooms become larger.
Basement: Bunker might be the wrong word, pellet storage is more accurate...
Do you have any suggestions for the staircase? I feel like it wastes a lot of space.
Thanks for your responses.
The house is large enough for a straight staircase.
You don’t have to run the hallway from one side of the house to the other to make it bright and spacious.
One large window on one side is enough, rooms arranged differently, and it won’t feel narrow or tunnel-like.
You can easily place the two children’s bedrooms on the ground floor and the reading and office nook in the basement.
The roof space can then be used for storage.
You don’t have to run the hallway from one side of the house to the other to make it bright and spacious.
One large window on one side is enough, rooms arranged differently, and it won’t feel narrow or tunnel-like.
You can easily place the two children’s bedrooms on the ground floor and the reading and office nook in the basement.
The roof space can then be used for storage.
We have a dedicated section for floor plan discussions. It was also linked for you by @haydee, including a questionnaire.
Please insert the PDFs as JPGs – tablet and smartphone users either cannot open the files or find it very difficult to do so.
I was able to open them just now, but only once; now I can’t access them anymore.
From memory: it’s a good idea to place the middle floor in the center and put the living and utility rooms below. But overall, the layout feels a bit unzoned. You have to pass through a hall to store supplies. Hopefully the person doesn’t get stuck in front of the TV [emoji6]
The bathroom in the basement is oversized, as is the hall.
The living and hallway areas are nice, but compared to those, the bedrooms feel more like small cells.
The attic floor doesn’t work at all due to the roof pitch. Usable standing area is roughly 8sqm (86 sq ft) as a room.
I also don’t find the exterior design particularly attractive.
Instead of thinking in simple box-shaped modules, the floors should be arranged in staggered, shifted, or offset ways. This results in generous spaces, covered outdoor areas, and distinct zones for living, sleeping, and working—even with less overall floor area.
I would definitely recommend leaving this discussion open here, since as non-professionals we don’t have the knowledge and experience to optimize a sloped property properly. It’s like trying to improve canned ravioli sauce when someone else can prepare the pasta dough and filling so much tastier that the tomato sauce barely needs seasoning.
If you have an architect’s design, we’d be happy to look at it and help optimize it for you.
By the way: a house with an open, central staircase and gallery is not suitable for dividing into two separate apartments.
The chimney is also in the wrong position; it should be near the ridge.
The laundry chute should open near where the laundry is done.
How much are you planning to spend on the house itself?
Please insert the PDFs as JPGs – tablet and smartphone users either cannot open the files or find it very difficult to do so.
I was able to open them just now, but only once; now I can’t access them anymore.
From memory: it’s a good idea to place the middle floor in the center and put the living and utility rooms below. But overall, the layout feels a bit unzoned. You have to pass through a hall to store supplies. Hopefully the person doesn’t get stuck in front of the TV [emoji6]
The bathroom in the basement is oversized, as is the hall.
The living and hallway areas are nice, but compared to those, the bedrooms feel more like small cells.
The attic floor doesn’t work at all due to the roof pitch. Usable standing area is roughly 8sqm (86 sq ft) as a room.
I also don’t find the exterior design particularly attractive.
Instead of thinking in simple box-shaped modules, the floors should be arranged in staggered, shifted, or offset ways. This results in generous spaces, covered outdoor areas, and distinct zones for living, sleeping, and working—even with less overall floor area.
I would definitely recommend leaving this discussion open here, since as non-professionals we don’t have the knowledge and experience to optimize a sloped property properly. It’s like trying to improve canned ravioli sauce when someone else can prepare the pasta dough and filling so much tastier that the tomato sauce barely needs seasoning.
If you have an architect’s design, we’d be happy to look at it and help optimize it for you.
By the way: a house with an open, central staircase and gallery is not suitable for dividing into two separate apartments.
The chimney is also in the wrong position; it should be near the ridge.
The laundry chute should open near where the laundry is done.
How much are you planning to spend on the house itself?
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