ᐅ Opinion on Our Architect’s Floor Plan

ypg schrieb:
So you only like that the planner "solved" it?!

Yes, probably. Otherwise, the hallway wouldn’t make any sense.

There is no such thing as too much sun.
And if there is too much sun, there are roller shutters.
The high ceilings also make the rooms special. We like it.

Hello,

I don’t understand the problem either. If everything is as you expect, then you can just get started.

You have received opinions.

Best regards

bluetoothtony schrieb:
I don’t see the questionnaire as very useful.
The architect takes care of the zoning plan / development plan.

We all like to work with Yvonne’s questionnaire here because one developed by me would be more different than better. There are no points in it that don’t make sense — only some that can be skipped depending on the project (and I find it clearer if the unanswered rows are deleted). Together with the zoning plan / development plan, this enables the community of participants to make feasible suggestions based on the same knowledge as the architect. Without this foundation, we can only respond with surprise, rather than address the finer details of the floor plan.

bluetoothtony schrieb:
Once the plan is ready, it will be transferred to CAD.

Finally someone who only picks up the mouse after the preliminary work has been fully discussed. Well done!

derdietmar schrieb:
I can’t believe this is a new design. It really looks like it’s 30 years old.

Your doubt is absolutely justified: 1980 was not thirty but actually forty-six years ago.

I had a great time back when Federal Chancellor Helmut was still Schmidt, and I consider the iconic Kim Wilde poster an absolutely timeless wall decoration. Back when the Ergo Group was still called HMI, we still had an emperor. Those were golden times, as Hubert Kah sang.

However, despite all the nostalgia, I wouldn’t go as far as the original poster does to place such a time-travel office on my street. And so far, I haven’t been able to read any truly objective advantages from this here — the questionnaire’s most useful discussion section is the one titled “what do you not like.” Without it, we’re stuck here and have to coax from the original poster one by one why this banana is not curved but pointed. Too bad for the cow Elsa, Theo is going to Lodz without her.

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Since there apparently are no financial constraints, but mostly external knowledge is being relied upon, here is a revised draft, patched up a bit to make the design flow more smoothly and to allow the bathroom and kitchen to be furnished. The kitchen wall was extended from 3.50 meters (11.5 feet) to 4 meters (13 feet).

bluetoothtony schrieb:
I don’t find the list of questions very useful.

Well, you’re currently building a house, and we keep encountering these questions here. Experience shows that at least 80% of them are justified. Depending on the original poster, it can vary between 80 and 100%, hence this list of questions.
If properly included at the beginning of a thread, it also allows all readers to always find important basic information in the first post, even after later contributions 😉 😉. But, following forum etiquette isn’t so common anymore 😉.

bluetoothtony schrieb:
The layout had to be angled to plan the rooms as they currently are.

Well, if the information were complete — for example, a site plan of the plot with measurements — then it would be easier to evaluate everything. Although it’s unclear why so many angled corners need to be added just to plan the desired room arrangement.

bluetoothtony schrieb:
The wardrobe will also be planned. The hallway should probably be wide enough for that.

The unnecessary hallway will be removed, and the utility room will then serve as a passage from the garage.

The walk-in closet could also become the bathroom, and a door will still be planned there.
The exact room layout is not yet finalized.

All three points are essentials in floor plan design and often cannot be integrated effectively or sensibly by just shifting things around a bit. Toilets and similar require wastewater drainage, typically pipes with a diameter of 10cm (4 inches). You also don’t want them to negatively affect the room below.

bluetoothtony schrieb:
The gallery is planned as a cozy seating area or a home office workspace. We like the open concept very much. If it becomes a problem later, it can still be changed.

A cozy seating area combined with an open space below — where the kitchen, dining, and living areas will at least acoustically overlap with the seating nook — doesn’t really mesh well. Even less does a home office workspace fit into this concept, especially if it’s intended for remote work. Consider phone conferences, undisturbed work, and so on.

bluetoothtony schrieb:
We are still going to a well-known kitchen studio with the floor plan. The kitchen will be planned there before the floor plan is finalized.

Yes, you should remain flexible with the room layout and already have your kitchen preferences clear. Not every room allows for an island, desired workflow, special cooking or baking needs, etc.

Overall, I find this floor plan to be large but not generous, since a lot of space is assigned to hallways and so on. A huge utility room, technical room, and pantry — it somehow lacks a coherent concept. In my opinion, there are also too many floor-to-ceiling windows planned in the children’s rooms, at least according to the elevation.
The styling also seems quite mixed. Slanted walls, roof slopes, flat roof sections all rather chaotic — generally, I’m somewhat “old-fashioned,” but I can recognize well-designed modern houses as “good,” not as “chaotic” 😉.

And, the one detail missing from the list of questions is the budget.

bluetoothtony schrieb:
The exact room layout will still be done by the bathroom planner and the home construction company. For now, we want to create a basis to get quotes from various builders. [...] We will also take the floor plan to a well-known kitchen studio to plan the kitchen before the floor plan is finalized.

It would be a near-perverse (and absolutely "@Gerddieter warns") kamikaze move to take an architect-designed home that is meant to stand out from the typical cookie-cutter surroundings and throw it to the general contractor (may the cheaper one win?) or divide it into individual packages for craftsmen like a sinking pedal boat. Especially a house of this architectural nature must be professionally tendered (and construction management should be independent of contractors!). Just the difference between tendering and getting price quotes results in a cost factor of almost 1.3 — and that’s before additional project management hours; and that’s only the money, with other fun issues like drywall imperfections and other “it’s always been like this” scars still to come on top. Hopefully, your price expectations are not still anchored in the 1980s, because the "million" benchmark here will easily be exceeded in HG, WI, or MTK. This is completely without including Dornbracht, Gaggenau, Kaldewei, Bulthaup, FSB, Staff & co., or any automation. Fireplace, open ceiling void, ridge ventilation: even the engineer for the controlled ventilation system will cost a fortune here. I do see a real risk that, even discounted for being smaller, your building costs will not get you much more than “beyond standard” compared to the league of @wiltshire / @rick2018, aside from the flower window and the pointed children's room.

bluetoothtony schrieb:
There’s no such thing as too much sun. And if there is too much sun, there are roller shutters.

Architectural sun protection starts with the orientation of the floor plan, not just with technical shading devices.

hanghaus2023 schrieb:
Where is north?

In my view, postal code area starting with 2 plus the Hannover region, and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

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