ᐅ Single-family home designed by an architect, 150 m² – looking for improvement suggestions and ideas
Created on: 2 Oct 2019 10:32
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DimaNDS
Development Plan / Restrictions
Lot size: 528m² (5679 sq ft)
Slope: no
Site coverage ratio: 0.3
Floor area ratio: 0.45
Building window, building line and boundary: Roof ridge direction E/W
Edge development: Garage max 15m (49 ft)
Number of floors: 2
Roof type: Gable roof
Orientation: S/W
Maximum height / limits: 9m (30 ft) ridge height
Other: Sound insulation class IV
Client Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: Modern
Basement, floors: no basement, ground floor, upper floor, partial attic
Number of occupants, age: 4
Room requirements ground floor, upper floor: Ground floor living room, kitchen, guest room, office, guest WC, storage room; upper floor 2 children’s rooms, master bedroom, bathroom
Office: family use or home office: both
Overnight guests per year: 10
Open or closed architecture: open
Conservative or modern construction: modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: yes
Number of dining seats: minimum 6
Fireplace: no
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: double steel garage with utility room, 6 x 9m (20 x 30 ft)
Vegetable garden, greenhouse: no (bed in front of kitchen)
House Design
Planning by: Architect
What do you particularly like? Why?: We love the openness of the house.
What do you not like? Why?: We really like the design, but we’re unsure if there might be issues with the technical installations in the attic. Also, access to the attic is via a door in the gable, which might look a bit odd. The architect designed a shelf/ladder construction here. Possibly there is too little storage space for items not used regularly, like Christmas decorations.
Price estimate by architect/planner: €330,000 (including exterior landscaping and kitchen)
Personal price limit for house, including fittings: €350,000
Preferred heating technology: Gas or heat pump, depending on whether sound insulation class leads to a KFW 55 house standard. We still need to get advice on this.
If you had to give up something, which details/extensions
-could you do without: walk-in closet
-could you not do without: the general openness of the house.
Why is the design the way it is now? e.g.
Which wishes were implemented by the architect? Bedroom facing east, living room facing west, evening sun in the kitchen.
What makes it especially good or bad in your eyes? Good: It is not a standard house you’ve seen 100 times in builder catalogs. Bad: Relatively high space wastage due to the openness.
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
What would you do differently or improve? Have we overlooked anything that could cause problems later?
Unfortunately, I cannot upload PDFs. The dimensions are there as well. For orientation: The living room is exactly 4m (13 ft) wide.
Lot size: 528m² (5679 sq ft)
Slope: no
Site coverage ratio: 0.3
Floor area ratio: 0.45
Building window, building line and boundary: Roof ridge direction E/W
Edge development: Garage max 15m (49 ft)
Number of floors: 2
Roof type: Gable roof
Orientation: S/W
Maximum height / limits: 9m (30 ft) ridge height
Other: Sound insulation class IV
Client Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: Modern
Basement, floors: no basement, ground floor, upper floor, partial attic
Number of occupants, age: 4
Room requirements ground floor, upper floor: Ground floor living room, kitchen, guest room, office, guest WC, storage room; upper floor 2 children’s rooms, master bedroom, bathroom
Office: family use or home office: both
Overnight guests per year: 10
Open or closed architecture: open
Conservative or modern construction: modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: yes
Number of dining seats: minimum 6
Fireplace: no
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: double steel garage with utility room, 6 x 9m (20 x 30 ft)
Vegetable garden, greenhouse: no (bed in front of kitchen)
House Design
Planning by: Architect
What do you particularly like? Why?: We love the openness of the house.
What do you not like? Why?: We really like the design, but we’re unsure if there might be issues with the technical installations in the attic. Also, access to the attic is via a door in the gable, which might look a bit odd. The architect designed a shelf/ladder construction here. Possibly there is too little storage space for items not used regularly, like Christmas decorations.
Price estimate by architect/planner: €330,000 (including exterior landscaping and kitchen)
Personal price limit for house, including fittings: €350,000
Preferred heating technology: Gas or heat pump, depending on whether sound insulation class leads to a KFW 55 house standard. We still need to get advice on this.
If you had to give up something, which details/extensions
-could you do without: walk-in closet
-could you not do without: the general openness of the house.
Why is the design the way it is now? e.g.
Which wishes were implemented by the architect? Bedroom facing east, living room facing west, evening sun in the kitchen.
What makes it especially good or bad in your eyes? Good: It is not a standard house you’ve seen 100 times in builder catalogs. Bad: Relatively high space wastage due to the openness.
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
What would you do differently or improve? Have we overlooked anything that could cause problems later?
Unfortunately, I cannot upload PDFs. The dimensions are there as well. For orientation: The living room is exactly 4m (13 ft) wide.
kbt09 schrieb:
I don’t think the original house position is that bad:
Because of the northern neighboring lots and the garage on the right property, there can still be northwest evening sun in the open area of the lot during summer.
However, the utility room shouldn’t be overlooked. Is it possible that the connections might also come from the east, that is, the right side of the plan?
... and clarify whether the ridge really must run only east/west Yes, I think we will keep the orientation as it is.
The utility lines can actually only come from the west. Unfortunately, there is nothing on the eastern boundary.
I will try to finish the upper floor plan today or tomorrow.
kaho674 schrieb:
Is this something worth considering?
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This isn’t the same everywhere, but normally utility lines must not be built over and shouldn’t be. That would mean you’d have to extend your design quite a bit around the house. Wow!
That’s why I’m trying here to connect it right at the "driveway." Hmm, not a bad idea at all. I’ll have a go at it. THANK YOU!
What software do you use for drawing, by the way?
DimaNDS schrieb:
What software do you use for drawing, by the way?Very old program: Architect 3D Maybe better like this?:
I searched through my old plans and found one that might also work.
The fireplace could be omitted here or alternatively installed above, opposite the staircase between the dining and living areas. In that case, it would likely be an external chimney.
It might also be worth considering swapping the kitchen and living areas to open up the window front facing south even more.
Another question is how much the attic space is planned to be used. A straight staircase continuing up there wouldn’t work well. A folding attic ladder would probably have to be used again.
The fireplace could be omitted here or alternatively installed above, opposite the staircase between the dining and living areas. In that case, it would likely be an external chimney.
It might also be worth considering swapping the kitchen and living areas to open up the window front facing south even more.
Another question is how much the attic space is planned to be used. A straight staircase continuing up there wouldn’t work well. A folding attic ladder would probably have to be used again.
kbt09 schrieb:
I looked through my old plans and found one that might also work.
The fireplace could be omitted here or installed along the top side of the plan opposite the stairs, between the dining and living area. That would be more of an external chimney.
One could also consider swapping the kitchen and living areas to further open up the south-facing window wall.
Another question is how much the attic will be used. Because with a straight staircase continuing there, it won’t work well. A pull-down attic ladder would have to be used again. WOW, thank you very much for your effort!
Even though it doesn’t quite fit our needs. The living room feels too separated—we want to keep the living, dining, and kitchen areas connected since those are the rooms we use most now. Otherwise, we still need an additional room for an office.
kaho674 schrieb:
Old software: Architect 3D
Maybe this is better?: Thank you for your suggestion. After a lot of back and forth, we concluded that building the utility room is not justified by the cost of the connections. Depending on how much the gas connection will cost, we might forgo it and install a heat pump instead. Otherwise, it’s still electricity, wastewater (which has to be routed around the house anyway because of the rainwater gutters), and fiber optic.
I think we can finalize the house orientation with this in any case.
I will prepare the floor plans shortly and upload them here. Looking forward to your feedback.
Good luck
DimaNDS schrieb:
After a lot of back and forth, we have concluded that building the utility room is not justified by the costs of the utility lines. Depending on the cost of the gas connection, we might skip it and install a heat pump instead. Otherwise, there are still electricity, wastewater (which has to go around the house anyway because of the gutters), and fiber optic lines. This confuses me because I assumed the costs for the utility lines already included water, wastewater, electricity, and fiber optic. I hadn’t even considered gas. I mean, even if the gas pipe can be omitted, the costs for the long utility lines remain. And it’s difficult to proceed without a utility room. Also, what does this have to do with the gutters? What exactly are you trying to tell us?
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