Hello everyone,
Our plot is located between a street at the front and a private driveway at the rear. The private driveway cannot be used for access or the driveway entrance. Access can only be made from the street.
Now the question is at what height we should position the house. Should we align it with the street level or with the private driveway?
If we align with the private driveway, we would need to add 80-100cm (31-39 inches) of fill, and the entrance to the house would likely require several steps. Also, the driveway to the parking area would probably be quite steep.
If we align with the street, the rear part of the plot would remain slightly below the level of the private driveway.
The street slopes upwards to the west. The neighbor to the west has adapted his house to the houses in the second row and his house is positioned quite high. His driveway is also very steep.
The neighbor to the north has leveled his plot completely and placed his house level with the street.
Our plot is in the middle. What would be the most sensible approach?
I have attached the elevation plan, hopefully it is clear.
Edit: The building project would be a single-family house without a basement!
Our plot is located between a street at the front and a private driveway at the rear. The private driveway cannot be used for access or the driveway entrance. Access can only be made from the street.
Now the question is at what height we should position the house. Should we align it with the street level or with the private driveway?
If we align with the private driveway, we would need to add 80-100cm (31-39 inches) of fill, and the entrance to the house would likely require several steps. Also, the driveway to the parking area would probably be quite steep.
If we align with the street, the rear part of the plot would remain slightly below the level of the private driveway.
The street slopes upwards to the west. The neighbor to the west has adapted his house to the houses in the second row and his house is positioned quite high. His driveway is also very steep.
The neighbor to the north has leveled his plot completely and placed his house level with the street.
Our plot is in the middle. What would be the most sensible approach?
I have attached the elevation plan, hopefully it is clear.
Edit: The building project would be a single-family house without a basement!
icandoit schrieb:
What did the general contractor say about the 5 meters?I think I understand why the site manager came up with the idea of the 5-meter setback.
According to the general contractor’s employee, the site manager said during the meeting about the house location that it would make sense to keep the driveway as level with the street as possible and to set the house’s finished floor level at about 23.xx meters (75 feet). This is because the house also aligns with that height on the west side. Consequently, we would need to accommodate a height difference of roughly 1.5 meters (5 feet).
I told the employee that this is not what we want. I informed him that a finished floor level of 22.50 meters (74 feet) makes the most sense.
So the problem is a lack of communication about where the finished floor level should actually be. Although we were never asked for this directly, and when I brought it up myself in the construction meeting, I was told it would be decided on site once the planning is finalized 🙄
Speaking directly to the architect at the general contractor seems impossible... Communication always goes through the sales representative. He said he will pass this on to the architect and get back to us 🤨
Let’s see how much delay this will cause now...
icandoit schrieb:
I guess your general contractor doesn’t have an architect but only a draftsman.I suspect something like that as well, but who then prepares the building documents for the building authority? Those have to be signed by an architect, right?
icandoit schrieb:
I guess your general contractor doesn’t have an architect, just a draftsman.Yaso2.0 schrieb:
But who prepares the building documents for the building authority then? Those have to be signed by an architect, right?A draftsman and an architect with a stamp might, ideally *LOL*, never even have met each other ;-)https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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11ant schrieb:
Zeichenknecht und Stempelaugust can ideally *LOL* have never met each other before ;-)That does indeed seem to be the case..
Is that common practice with general contractors?
I always thought they have an architect whom they just keep well hidden from their clients.. 🙄
Yaso2.0 schrieb:
Is this common practice with general contractors? Part-time draftsman working from home, architect retired but available as needed for signing documents.
Yaso2.0 schrieb:
I always thought they had an architect that they just keep well hidden from their clients... There are also cases with a permanent contracted architect, and actually two types: if the client themselves is the architect’s principal, the architect works discreetly due to complex legal reasons. Others prefer that the client approaches the architect directly and becomes their principal. Of course, the client might find this unreasonable if they only want to move the walk-in closet wall in the otherwise unchanged Schantalle 138ZD model.
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