ᐅ Location of a city villa or detached single-family house on a 500 m² rectangular plot
Created on: 17 Jan 2020 18:03
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Tolentino
Dear all,
after sharing the floor plans of my possible hamster cage with you in the other thread , here comes the next thread (thanks again for all the constructive suggestions there).
Just so you know, the semi-detached house is not off the table yet, as this plot of land is highly sought after and it’s not clear whether it will work out. But this one would be my favorite.
Now to this plot. For now, I’m mainly concerned with where and roughly how the house should be positioned on this plot.
Development plan / restrictions
Plot size: 500 m² (5400 sq ft)
Slope: none
Site coverage ratio: 0.2
Floor area ratio: 0.4
Building envelope, building line and boundary: 5 m (16 ft) from the street, 3 m (10 ft) from neighbors
Edge development: allowed for garages and sheds, none existing on the plot
Number of parking spaces: 1-2
Number of floors: 1.5–2.5
Roof shape: no preference
Architectural style: no preference
Orientation: aligned parallel to the street
Maximum heights / limits: ridge height max. 9 m (30 ft)
Below are the site plans I created myself based on the details from the listing.
This is a rough overview of the plot with building boundaries and dimensions.
My question is: where to put the house?
The broker suggests placing it towards the back, since you already have the 5 m (16 ft) setback at the front and would “gain” about 3 m (10 ft) of garden. My partner doesn’t like this because of the visibility from the street. I say: privacy screen! But I also think, a fence too high might create a prison-yard feel.
But even if you follow this suggestion, I wonder if a more square floor plan (-> town villa style) would be better?
Like this, for example:
Then parking space might be tricky, right?
Or upright like this?
I really want as much of a west-facing view and garden as possible. I tend to be an evening person and that side is less built up, due to the road. So I think more light comes through.
But the narrow floor plan caused lots of problems with the semi-detached house already. Well, here you could build longer instead.
What do you think?
Best regards
Tolentino
after sharing the floor plans of my possible hamster cage with you in the other thread , here comes the next thread (thanks again for all the constructive suggestions there).
Just so you know, the semi-detached house is not off the table yet, as this plot of land is highly sought after and it’s not clear whether it will work out. But this one would be my favorite.
Now to this plot. For now, I’m mainly concerned with where and roughly how the house should be positioned on this plot.
Development plan / restrictions
Plot size: 500 m² (5400 sq ft)
Slope: none
Site coverage ratio: 0.2
Floor area ratio: 0.4
Building envelope, building line and boundary: 5 m (16 ft) from the street, 3 m (10 ft) from neighbors
Edge development: allowed for garages and sheds, none existing on the plot
Number of parking spaces: 1-2
Number of floors: 1.5–2.5
Roof shape: no preference
Architectural style: no preference
Orientation: aligned parallel to the street
Maximum heights / limits: ridge height max. 9 m (30 ft)
Below are the site plans I created myself based on the details from the listing.
This is a rough overview of the plot with building boundaries and dimensions.
My question is: where to put the house?
The broker suggests placing it towards the back, since you already have the 5 m (16 ft) setback at the front and would “gain” about 3 m (10 ft) of garden. My partner doesn’t like this because of the visibility from the street. I say: privacy screen! But I also think, a fence too high might create a prison-yard feel.
But even if you follow this suggestion, I wonder if a more square floor plan (-> town villa style) would be better?
Like this, for example:
Then parking space might be tricky, right?
Or upright like this?
I really want as much of a west-facing view and garden as possible. I tend to be an evening person and that side is less built up, due to the road. So I think more light comes through.
But the narrow floor plan caused lots of problems with the semi-detached house already. Well, here you could build longer instead.
What do you think?
Best regards
Tolentino
So, we had another electrical job over the weekend.
It’s surprising how much physical effort it takes to expose a cistern. We mostly worked in a team of three, with another person joining later. With multiple wall breaches (undermining), a partial collapse, and limited working space (construction access road only about 1m (3 feet) away), it took us around 7 hours in total to get ratchet straps underneath the cistern.
We were about 1 hour away here:
On Monday morning, the civil contractor lifted the cistern out and filled the hole within 10 minutes.
It’s always impressive what proper machine use can accomplish.
The following photo is from this morning. The construction areas seem to be prepared so far.
The slabs are planned to be poured by the end of next week...
It’s surprising how much physical effort it takes to expose a cistern. We mostly worked in a team of three, with another person joining later. With multiple wall breaches (undermining), a partial collapse, and limited working space (construction access road only about 1m (3 feet) away), it took us around 7 hours in total to get ratchet straps underneath the cistern.
We were about 1 hour away here:
On Monday morning, the civil contractor lifted the cistern out and filled the hole within 10 minutes.
It’s always impressive what proper machine use can accomplish.
The following photo is from this morning. The construction areas seem to be prepared so far.
The slabs are planned to be poured by the end of next week...
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Grillhendl1 Dec 2020 10:04Tolentino schrieb:
So, we had to do some electrical work again over the weekend.
It’s surprising how much physical effort is needed to excavate a cistern. Remember the Christmas overeating... that probably balanced out the calories burned 😉
Well, the feasting is still to come. But the cistern also needs to be buried again, so I’m planning to focus on that this Christmas. To be honest, I’m already considering renting a mini excavator. We’ll need to dig even more since the volume of the cistern will also have to be removed. Plus, the soil shown in the second picture on the right still needs to be spread out.
My back is starting to protest again...
My back is starting to protest again...
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