ᐅ Non-load-bearing walls on the ground floor, and no walls at all in the basement. Is this feasible?

Hello.

While considering the floor plan, I am wondering if it is possible to have walls on the ground floor (non-load-bearing walls) positioned where there are no walls in the basement.

There is only one ground floor and one basement.

There is one load-bearing 24cm (9.5 inches) wall running across the house (horizontally marked in red), which also exists in the basement.

All walls in the basement that align with walls on the ground floor are marked in red; the others do not match exactly. The basement is made of concrete, the ground floor of Poroton blocks, with no upper floor.

Is this arrangement possible, or do the green-marked walls on the ground floor (17cm / 6.7 inches) also need to be present in the basement? Can a normal floor slab support this, or would reinforcement with steel be necessary?

The reason for this is the slight slope of the site and the fact that I can install windows on the north side of the basement without light wells, which is why I would like to have two larger rooms there.

Thank you

Despite the unclear text and rather confusing drawings, I do not see any problem here. Furthermore, I would like to remind you of my criticism regarding the continuously new threads without any reference links :-(

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This time it is simply a different design that no longer has much in common with the previous topic, so a new thread was created.

First, the focus here is on the possibility of having a non-load-bearing wall "above," and no wall directly underneath in the basement.

Best regards, Ralf1980

Ralf1980 schrieb:

This time it's just a different design, which doesn’t have much in common with the old topic anymore, so a new thread was created.

Even if you apparently aren’t the type for strictly developed projects, at its core it’s still the same, and it will remain so after the seventy-somethingth revision shuffle.

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Why don’t you leave the question to your architect or their structural engineer?

I believe a structural engineer is not necessary at this stage. A drywall partition can always be included without major issues, and a non-load-bearing solid wall is usually not a problem either.