ᐅ Is a staircase required to comply with DIN 18065 or not?

-LotteS- schrieb:

Oh, a log house... How lovely!
I highly recommend that once you have the first draft from the architect, you create your own thread here. It’s important to know whether it’s your own architect or if they work for Fullwood’s partner company (and thus are familiar with all the particularities of this construction method). We also have a log house, and without this forum, it would have become a – I quote – “dark dwarf cave,” because many things really feel different when building with wood compared to “normal” construction!

That’s a good idea. I’ll do that next week.
Are you referring to the “dwarf cave” in terms of too few windows or lack of natural light?

The architect works in Fullwood’s office and is permanently employed there.

You probably visited a show home from the company. What kind of staircase was inside?

Timotheus schrieb:

Are you referring to the "tiny cave" in terms of too few windows or lack of natural light?

I meant it metaphorically, to say that a timber house needs to be planned differently because it has completely different basic conditions. If the architect is working directly with Fullwood, I would especially recommend having others take a close look as well, since they might be more inclined to say "no, it’s fine as is" to avoid costly additional rounds of revisions.

hanghaus2023 schrieb:

You probably visited a show home from the company. What kind of staircase did it have?

It was a half-turn staircase. But the show home was much larger.

As I said, next week we will visit a few staircase studios to get more information.

-LotteS- schrieb:

I meant it figuratively to say that a wooden house needs to be planned differently because it has completely different basic requirements. If the architect is working with Fullwood, I would definitely have others review it as well, since they are probably more likely to say "no, it’s fine as is" to avoid costly additional revisions.

You’ve definitely piqued my curiosity!
I’ll upload our finalized floor plan in the next few days. I’d appreciate your feedback on it.

Timotheus schrieb:

The house is being built with Fullwood.
Currently, the architect is preparing the drawings. That’s why I can’t upload anything yet.
The house measures 13 x 6.5m 1.5 stories. [> / >] It features a half-turn staircase. But the show home was much larger.

A 2:1 ratio is a very steep basic floor-to-ceiling height profile, which typically leads to unfavorable layouts with increased space consumption, especially in circulation areas (which can’t be compensated by the stair footprint alone) and storage spaces near knee walls.
Reducing proven design templates rarely results in successful adaptations.

Timotheus schrieb:

But I will upload our finished floor plan in the coming days...

Don’t forget about the plot of land!

-LotteS- schrieb:

We also have a log house, and without this forum it would have become— I quote— a “dark dwarf cave,” because many things really feel different when building with wood compared to conventional construction! [> / >]
I meant that figuratively, to say that planning a wooden house has to be done differently because it has completely different basic conditions.

Did you leave the wood exposed everywhere as visible “masonry,” or did you simply avoid the typical log house style of excessive floor-to-ceiling windows?
Modern log house construction methods do without the traditional overlapping corner joints used in earlier structures (even though they are often imitated for folkloric reasons), so I don’t quite understand the “completely different basic conditions.” There are even building systems with milled installation channels. Today’s log house builders often belong to the “CAD + CNC” generation. There’s nothing left of the old mountain cabin stereotype. More log houses are standing in new housing developments from Bielefeld to Uhlenbusch than on alpine pastures. I recently saw a video from a provider who explicitly mentioned brick facades (NiTo).

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