Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: 630 m² (6,780 sq ft)
Slope: slight incline toward the street
Floor area ratio (FAR): 0.35
Gross floor area ratio (GFAR): 1.0
Edge development: Located centrally in a dead-end street within a new residential development (infrastructure to be completed starting next year). The dead-end street ends to the north. A purely residential area with low traffic, as it is a small village (<2,000 inhabitants).
Number of parking spaces
Number of floors: Ground floor + 1 floor + attic as maximum limit
Roof type: gable roof
Architectural style
Orientation: east-west
Maximum height/limits: 7.0 m ±0.3 m (23 ft ±1 ft)
Additional requirements
Client Requirements
Basement, floors: No basement; 2 floors plus attic (desired knee wall height on upper floor still unclear)
Number of people, ages: Family of four – two children (ages 2 and 5 at move-in)
Space requirements on ground and upper floors
Office: family use or home office? Family use
Guest bedrooms per year: rarely
Open kitchen with island
Number of dining seats: 4
Fireplace: yes (centrally located in the living room with interior chimney or on the exterior wall?)
Music/speaker wall
Balcony, roof terrace: possibly garage roof as terrace; also terrace on the south side adjacent to the living room
Garage, carport:
Vegetable garden, greenhouse: vegetable garden
Photovoltaic system, cistern for garden (possibly also for toilet water use – cost question, still unclear)
House Design
Designed by:
- Do-it-yourself: yes
What do you particularly like? Why? Large living room facing south
What do you dislike? Why?
Estimated price according to architect/planner: €400,000 turnkey, KfW 55 standard prefabricated house with air-to-water heat pump (without garage; including foundation slab)
Personal price limit for house including fixtures: €500,000 including additional building costs
Preferred heating technology: heat pump with horizontal closed loop collector
If you have to give up, which details/upgrades
- can you give up: large garage
- cannot give up:
Why is the design the way it is now? For example:
Based on various prefabricated houses, we designed our own floor plan. The study on the ground floor should be large enough to possibly use as a bedroom. The living room faces south, and the children’s rooms are equally sized. The washing machine would go into the storage room.
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
General room layout and positioning? Which knee wall height (1 m; 1.2 m; 1.6 m) would be optimal for space gain, cost savings, and daylight in the upper floor?
Hello,
I hope the notes on the drawings are legible and understandable.
According to the development plan, only a knee wall height of 50 cm (20 inches) is allowed, but according to telephone information, deviations are approved as long as the maximum ridge height is not exceeded.
The drawing does not show any furniture.
The staircase should run straight in the hallway on the west side, so it opens in front of the two doors for the children’s rooms and the master bedroom.
Floor-to-ceiling windows are planned in the south-facing living room; all other windows will be "standard."
The kitchen is planned in the southeast corner of the house, hence the passage to the pantry. Originally, no pantry was planned; instead, there was a large utility room. On the advice of the house seller/consultant, a wall was added there so you don’t walk directly from the kitchen into the utility room.
A fireplace either next to the living room door or on the west wall.
Unfortunately, furniture was not included in the export: staircase runs straight in the hallway on the right side (when entering the house), so you reach the doors of the children’s and master bedrooms on the upper floor.
The current floor plan is based on external dimensions of 10.50 m by 11 m (34 ft 5 in by 36 ft 1 in).
If anything is unclear, please ask. Otherwise, feel free to ask questions or critique. I am not here just to receive praise (although that is always nice), but that’s not the purpose of this exercise.
Plot size: 630 m² (6,780 sq ft)
Slope: slight incline toward the street
Floor area ratio (FAR): 0.35
Gross floor area ratio (GFAR): 1.0
Edge development: Located centrally in a dead-end street within a new residential development (infrastructure to be completed starting next year). The dead-end street ends to the north. A purely residential area with low traffic, as it is a small village (<2,000 inhabitants).
Number of parking spaces
Number of floors: Ground floor + 1 floor + attic as maximum limit
Roof type: gable roof
Architectural style
Orientation: east-west
Maximum height/limits: 7.0 m ±0.3 m (23 ft ±1 ft)
Additional requirements
Client Requirements
Basement, floors: No basement; 2 floors plus attic (desired knee wall height on upper floor still unclear)
Number of people, ages: Family of four – two children (ages 2 and 5 at move-in)
Space requirements on ground and upper floors
Office: family use or home office? Family use
Guest bedrooms per year: rarely
Open kitchen with island
Number of dining seats: 4
Fireplace: yes (centrally located in the living room with interior chimney or on the exterior wall?)
Music/speaker wall
Balcony, roof terrace: possibly garage roof as terrace; also terrace on the south side adjacent to the living room
Garage, carport:
Vegetable garden, greenhouse: vegetable garden
Photovoltaic system, cistern for garden (possibly also for toilet water use – cost question, still unclear)
House Design
Designed by:
- Do-it-yourself: yes
What do you particularly like? Why? Large living room facing south
What do you dislike? Why?
Estimated price according to architect/planner: €400,000 turnkey, KfW 55 standard prefabricated house with air-to-water heat pump (without garage; including foundation slab)
Personal price limit for house including fixtures: €500,000 including additional building costs
Preferred heating technology: heat pump with horizontal closed loop collector
If you have to give up, which details/upgrades
- can you give up: large garage
- cannot give up:
Why is the design the way it is now? For example:
Based on various prefabricated houses, we designed our own floor plan. The study on the ground floor should be large enough to possibly use as a bedroom. The living room faces south, and the children’s rooms are equally sized. The washing machine would go into the storage room.
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
General room layout and positioning? Which knee wall height (1 m; 1.2 m; 1.6 m) would be optimal for space gain, cost savings, and daylight in the upper floor?
Hello,
I hope the notes on the drawings are legible and understandable.
According to the development plan, only a knee wall height of 50 cm (20 inches) is allowed, but according to telephone information, deviations are approved as long as the maximum ridge height is not exceeded.
The drawing does not show any furniture.
The staircase should run straight in the hallway on the west side, so it opens in front of the two doors for the children’s rooms and the master bedroom.
Floor-to-ceiling windows are planned in the south-facing living room; all other windows will be "standard."
The kitchen is planned in the southeast corner of the house, hence the passage to the pantry. Originally, no pantry was planned; instead, there was a large utility room. On the advice of the house seller/consultant, a wall was added there so you don’t walk directly from the kitchen into the utility room.
A fireplace either next to the living room door or on the west wall.
Unfortunately, furniture was not included in the export: staircase runs straight in the hallway on the right side (when entering the house), so you reach the doors of the children’s and master bedrooms on the upper floor.
The current floor plan is based on external dimensions of 10.50 m by 11 m (34 ft 5 in by 36 ft 1 in).
If anything is unclear, please ask. Otherwise, feel free to ask questions or critique. I am not here just to receive praise (although that is always nice), but that’s not the purpose of this exercise.
N
Neubau202020 Nov 2019 17:27The garage is actually the very first milestone. For this size (double garage with a storage room behind it = 3 single garages), I have received quotes starting at 30,000 euros.
I still dream of using the garage roof as an outdoor balcony since the sunset happens there and it offers a wonderful view towards the northwest. But is it really worth 30,000 euros? Also, access to the roof is difficult due to the knee wall.
I could also imagine having a parking space in front of the house facing the street, which is otherwise dead space that is not used.
I still dream of using the garage roof as an outdoor balcony since the sunset happens there and it offers a wonderful view towards the northwest. But is it really worth 30,000 euros? Also, access to the roof is difficult due to the knee wall.
I could also imagine having a parking space in front of the house facing the street, which is otherwise dead space that is not used.
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hampshire20 Nov 2019 17:33Going onto the roof to watch the sunset is a great idea. This calls for a well-coordinated, neighbor-friendly guerrilla-style wooden solution with access from the garden. Something like a raised terrace that happens to fit a lockable room underneath, or similar.
I am interested in the positioning of the house on the plot. How much space is there between the terrace and the fence on the south side? Are there any dimensions available for the plot?
As shown, the staircase is still too short, but the door to the study can still be moved.
I would omit the door between the pantry and the utility room.
Many doors open the wrong way. Please try furnishing the bedroom. The width of 3.42m (11 feet 3 inches) is just about the minimum to comfortably walk on both sides.
Some of the windows are poorly placed—both in terms of the exterior appearance and for the arrangement of furniture.
The children's room might be better positioned on the south side, as already mentioned.
There is no space allocated for a wardrobe cabinet. Perhaps something like this here:
Otherwise, I would say the standard is good.
As shown, the staircase is still too short, but the door to the study can still be moved.
I would omit the door between the pantry and the utility room.
Many doors open the wrong way. Please try furnishing the bedroom. The width of 3.42m (11 feet 3 inches) is just about the minimum to comfortably walk on both sides.
Some of the windows are poorly placed—both in terms of the exterior appearance and for the arrangement of furniture.
The children's room might be better positioned on the south side, as already mentioned.
There is no space allocated for a wardrobe cabinet. Perhaps something like this here:
Otherwise, I would say the standard is good.
N
Neubau202020 Nov 2019 19:16kaho674 schrieb:
I am interested in the positioning on the plot. How much space is there between the terrace and the fence on the south side? Are there plot dimensions? Roughly speaking: square, 25m x 25m (82ft x 82ft)
I have attached the exact measurements again as a diagram.
With 6m (20ft) yard width and 11m (36ft) house width, there are 8m (26ft) left from the house wall to the fence (25 - 6 - 11).
kaho674 schrieb:
As drawn, the staircase is still too short, but the door to the study can be moved. Exactly, the door would be shifted toward the yard if needed.
kaho674 schrieb:
I would leave out the door between the pantry and utility room. I’m already considering whether just an open passageway would be sufficient.
kaho674 schrieb:
Many doors open the wrong way. Please try furnishing the bedroom. The 3.42m (11ft) width is just about the minimum to comfortably walk on both sides. Some windows are still badly positioned. Door swings and windows will be optimized and updated with a new sketch. The same applies to the swapped children’s room.
I don’t quite understand the second sentence. What exactly is meant by “minimum width to walk”?
kaho674 schrieb:
There is no space allocated for a wardrobe. Maybe here: Good idea, I will try to include that along with all the other suggestions.
Thanks for this already.
kaho674 schrieb:
I am interested in the positioning on the plot. How much space is there between the terrace and the fence on the south side? Are there plot dimensions?
As drawn, the staircase is still too short, but the door to the study can be moved.
Many doors open the wrong way. Please try furnishing the bedroom. The 3.42m (11ft) width is just about the minimum to comfortably walk on both sides.
Some windows are still badly positioned – both in terms of the exterior appearance and the placement of furniture.
Maybe the children’s room would be better on the south side, as already mentioned.
There is no space allocated for a wardrobe. Maybe something like this:
Otherwise, I would say it’s a good standard. 
Neubau2020 schrieb:
Now we are wondering which knee wall height offers more advantages:
Rather 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) => less roof slope inside the rooms, but then the roof windows are quite high, and I have "dark walls" since no windows can be installed in the exterior wall (south side).
Rather 1 m (3 ft 3 in) => lower costs, roof windows lower down and therefore easier to reach. I assume the term "knee wall" is meant here – if so, there is a misconception: with a 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) knee wall, you can place windows (for daylight) well in the wall beneath the eaves; only for the view I find a beam at this height can be visually disturbing.
hampshire schrieb:
A slight roof slope starting from 2 m (6 ft 7 in) height is no longer bothersome. At that scale, however, it begins to shift from feeling like "high walls" to feeling "cut off at the top."
The popularity of knee walls around 120/125 cm (4 ft/4 ft 1 in) seems to me not to be coincidental.
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Neubau2020 schrieb:
I don’t understand the second sentence. What is meant by the lower limit for walking?
I assume the bed is supposed to be placed against the wall at the top of the plan in the bedroom. In that case, the total space for the bed plus the walking area next to it would only be 3.42m (11.2 feet). With a 2m (6.6 feet) wide bed, that leaves about 70cm (28 inches) on each side. That’s quite a narrow clearance.
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