ᐅ Single-family house, 175 sqm without a basement—too large?
Created on: 15 Apr 2020 10:02
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Drasleona
Hello everyone
I would also like to hear your opinion on our current design.
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: 507 sqm (5455 sq ft)
Slope: yes, about 4 m (13 ft) difference in height over a length of 30 m (98 ft)
Floor area ratio (FAR): 0.4
Site occupancy index: 0.8
Building envelope, building line and boundary: 3 m (10 ft) to the street
Edge building: allowed for garage/carport
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: max. 2 full stories
Roof type: anything except flat roof
Style: any
Orientation: any
Maximum heights/limits: ridge height max. 12 m (39 ft), wall height max. 10 m (33 ft)
Client Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: gable roof
Basement, floors: no basement, almost 2 full stories (knee wall 1.86 m (6 ft))
Number of occupants, age: 3 people, 1 teenager, 2 adults
Space requirements ground floor / upper floor: approx. 175 sqm (1880 sq ft)
Office: home office
Guest bedrooms per year: rarely 2 guests
Open or closed architecture: rather open, airy, including open kitchen
Balcony, roof terrace: no to both
Garage, carport: double carport planned later
House Design
Who designed it: put together myself
What do you like most? Why?
- Direct access from the bedroom through the dressing room to the bathroom
- Cloakroom niche keeps dirty shoes outside the main passage area
- Floor-to-ceiling windows for lots of light
- Straight staircase, looks modern, easier to walk on than a spiral one and better for accessibility later (stairlift)
- Very spacious living/dining/kitchen area (though perhaps too large?)
- Pantry with everything easily accessible on open shelves
What do you dislike? Why?
- Huge waste of space in the hallways
Why did the design turn out this way?
I saw a similar layout in a townhouse that I really liked at first glance. We want a generous living feel with large window areas.
Since we are planning without a basement, an extra room upstairs was created for storage, guest room, and workshop space.
Important: the bathroom layout is not really planned yet. I have inserted my first idea there but I know it is still far from a “good idea.” For now, the focus is on the basic room layout. The windows are currently more of an idea than fully thought through.
What is the most important / fundamental question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?
- Do you see a way to reduce hallway space despite having a straight staircase?
- What is your overall impression of the design?
I would also like to hear your opinion on our current design.
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: 507 sqm (5455 sq ft)
Slope: yes, about 4 m (13 ft) difference in height over a length of 30 m (98 ft)
Floor area ratio (FAR): 0.4
Site occupancy index: 0.8
Building envelope, building line and boundary: 3 m (10 ft) to the street
Edge building: allowed for garage/carport
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: max. 2 full stories
Roof type: anything except flat roof
Style: any
Orientation: any
Maximum heights/limits: ridge height max. 12 m (39 ft), wall height max. 10 m (33 ft)
Client Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: gable roof
Basement, floors: no basement, almost 2 full stories (knee wall 1.86 m (6 ft))
Number of occupants, age: 3 people, 1 teenager, 2 adults
Space requirements ground floor / upper floor: approx. 175 sqm (1880 sq ft)
Office: home office
Guest bedrooms per year: rarely 2 guests
Open or closed architecture: rather open, airy, including open kitchen
Balcony, roof terrace: no to both
Garage, carport: double carport planned later
House Design
Who designed it: put together myself
What do you like most? Why?
- Direct access from the bedroom through the dressing room to the bathroom
- Cloakroom niche keeps dirty shoes outside the main passage area
- Floor-to-ceiling windows for lots of light
- Straight staircase, looks modern, easier to walk on than a spiral one and better for accessibility later (stairlift)
- Very spacious living/dining/kitchen area (though perhaps too large?)
- Pantry with everything easily accessible on open shelves
What do you dislike? Why?
- Huge waste of space in the hallways
Why did the design turn out this way?
I saw a similar layout in a townhouse that I really liked at first glance. We want a generous living feel with large window areas.
Since we are planning without a basement, an extra room upstairs was created for storage, guest room, and workshop space.
Important: the bathroom layout is not really planned yet. I have inserted my first idea there but I know it is still far from a “good idea.” For now, the focus is on the basic room layout. The windows are currently more of an idea than fully thought through.
What is the most important / fundamental question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?
- Do you see a way to reduce hallway space despite having a straight staircase?
- What is your overall impression of the design?
Drasleona schrieb:
I spent some time working on the window planning. Attached are images with the window dimensions (width x height). At least you were consistent regarding the number of different dimensions. From this, I deduce a sill height of 98 cm (39 inches) for the standard-height windows. But could you enlighten me as to why you are specifying such unusual measurements not only for the rooms but also for the windows? On one hand, they deviate from the modular standard, but on the other, they don’t follow the rounded decimeter values you’d usually expect from a non-professional. Is that a coincidence, or something like astronomy, lottery numbers, or Aunt Trude’s birthday? Because I don’t see special prime numbers or typical standard dimensions—everything appears custom.
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Drasleona23 Apr 2020 16:21To what extent do specific room dimensions matter?
I have the window dimensions from the window catalog of the house manufacturer we will be building with. Or do you mean the combination of windows? ops:
I have the window dimensions from the window catalog of the house manufacturer we will be building with. Or do you mean the combination of windows? ops:
Drasleona schrieb:
I have the window dimensions from the window catalog of the house manufacturer we will be building with. Which manufacturer is that, and is the catalog available online?
For solid houses, a modular grid based on 10 centimeters (4 inches) makes sense, and even prefabricated house manufacturers usually have construction and design grids. However, I don’t recognize either of these here. Also, the window widths of 109, 138, and 175 centimeters (43, 54, and 69 inches) don’t seem to follow a clear pattern or common denominator.
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Drasleona23 Apr 2020 16:40The manufacturer is Schwabenhaus.
To be honest, I removed all the interior walls from the house and created a floor plan myself. Once it was finished, I first tried to reuse the originally planned windows and otherwise freely selected windows from the catalog. As far as I know, the catalog is not available online, and I don’t want to share it...
I’m also still very open to optimization ideas for the floor plan. It seems like you would change quite a few things.
To be honest, I removed all the interior walls from the house and created a floor plan myself. Once it was finished, I first tried to reuse the originally planned windows and otherwise freely selected windows from the catalog. As far as I know, the catalog is not available online, and I don’t want to share it...
I’m also still very open to optimization ideas for the floor plan. It seems like you would change quite a few things.
Drasleona schrieb:
The manufacturer is Schwabenhaus.
[...] Seems like you would change quite a bit thereSchwabenhaus is a “prefabricated house” manufacturer – that at least explains the dimensions outside of the octameter system, but I still don’t see a planning grid here (usually around 62.5cm (25 inches)). No problem. No, I’m not itching to change much: your design is already clearly more structured than what I’m used to seeing in this forum. I haven’t noticed any major mistakes so far.https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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