ᐅ Passive house floor plan feedback: ground floor and upper floor, open kitchen, cloakroom, and family rooms discussion
Created on: 1 Dec 2025 22:45
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Uwe-gss11
Hello everyone,
Today, I would like to open the discussion about our floor plan and ask for your comments and suggestions for improvement ... THANK YOU ;-)
Here are a few basic explanations:
# Ground Floor:
# Upper Floor:
Where do you see potential for optimization?
Thank you in advance for your ideas!
Uwe
Today, I would like to open the discussion about our floor plan and ask for your comments and suggestions for improvement ... THANK YOU ;-)
Here are a few basic explanations:
- The house is intended to be as energy-efficient as possible (towards passive house standard). Therefore, it is rectangular with a 45° pitched roof ... no projections, bay windows, dormers, etc.
- At the top is north and the street
- Top right is the garage, next to it on the left a wall/privacy screen, and further left the driveway
- The background image still shows the old, demolished house ... don’t be confused ;-)
# Ground Floor:
- You drive forward onto the property ... then into the garage. When leaving, you reverse out of the garage, turn left in reverse, and then can drive forward back onto the street.
- In front of the garage, you enter directly through a door into the utility/technical room (the only room without natural light)
- From there into the cloakroom
- From the front door, you take 1 or 2 steps past the guest toilet also into the spacious cloakroom => I had initially planned to place the cloakroom on the exterior wall, but then the guest toilet would have no natural light, which my wife did not want.
- Opposite the guest toilet is the staircase going up; under the stairs is an office/guest room
- Straight ahead leads to the open kitchen/dining/living area
- The terrace on the right has shade in midsummer ... there is a door from the kitchen directly out there
- Another door to the "south terrace" is at the bottom center
# Upper Floor:
- Basically self-explanatory ... children’s rooms with children’s bathroom, master bathroom, walk-in closet, master bedroom
Where do you see potential for optimization?
Thank you in advance for your ideas!
Uwe
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Uwe-gss112 Dec 2025 12:23Thank you for the constructive criticism ... I can work with that!
Uwe-gss11 schrieb:
Thank you for the constructive criticism... I can work with that! Where did you notice it?
Why not take the initiative and turn it around: fill out the questionnaire, clearly explain your motivation for a custom design, respond to follow-up questions. Some thread starters initially react defensively to offers of help, but constructive dialogues can still develop from that. So, what is your next step?
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nordanney2 Dec 2025 13:04Uwe-gss11 schrieb:
Thank you very much for the constructive criticism ... that is something I can work with! Then please:
- Complete the questionnaire
==> including the information on why the house was designed the way you drew it
- Have you considered floor-area ratio / site coverage ratio?
- Why are the rooms so oversized?
- Add specific dimensions
==> this helps to assess the usability
- Budget
- Include notes on the technical room / heating / ventilation system
- Document the entrance situation including staircase design
- Address structural issues (e.g., are prestressed concrete slabs or beams planned; concrete walls or columns?)
- Take into account Papierturm’s comments (the bathroom/bedroom door situation is a disaster, also the window layout in the 17 sqm (183 sq ft) room)
- Huge corridor on the upper floor without purpose
- Exterior view will show a confusing and completely asymmetrical window arrangement
- What kind of summer heat protection is planned? With this south-facing orientation, the open-plan area will turn into a sauna in summer (the south side consists only of windows – are the few wall sections sufficient to support the ceiling plus the upper floor structurally – see above)
And so on.
And now, please provide constructive explanations.
P.S. “As energy-efficient as possible” does not mean heating 650 cubic meters (23,000 cubic feet) of unnecessary space. Building towards passive house standards will also make it significantly more expensive than constructing a building that already complies with the very energy-efficient requirements of the building energy code.
11ant schrieb:
Why not take the opportunity and transform it: fill out the questionnaireYou can find it here:https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/grundriss-planung-unbedingt-vor-beitrag-erstellung-lesen.11714/
kbt09 schrieb:
I agree with the previous posts and would like to add that the boundary development already looks to be more than 9 m (30 feet).I would say the boundary development is not permitted along the street at all.U
Uwe-gss112 Dec 2025 18:48I'll start over again right away... but this time properly... with questions answered and dimensions included... then this thread can be closed.
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