ᐅ Single-family house, 200 m², constructed in an L-shape with a 45° angle
Created on: 25 Feb 2020 07:00
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Kerstili
Hello
I would like to share our nearly finished floor plan and immediately ask for your opinions.
What would you change or do differently?
I appreciate any tips, suggestions, or advice...
Thank you very much in advance to everyone.
Development plan/restrictions
Plot size: 1580m² (0.39 acres)
Terrain: slight slope towards the street
Site coverage ratio
Floor area ratio
Building envelope, building line, and boundary:
Edge development
Number of parking spaces
Number of floors: two full stories
Roof type: gable roof
Architectural style
Orientation
Maximum heights/limits
Other requirements
Owners’ requirements
Style, roof type, building type: gable roof, angled building design
Basement, floors: two full stories with basement
Number of occupants, ages: 2 adults (early 30s) and 2 young children (1 and 4 years old)
Space requirements on the ground floor: living/dining area, kitchen, WC and shower, office (possibly a bedroom later), pantry
Upper floor: 2 children’s rooms, master bedroom, sewing room, bathroom
Office: family use or home office? Family use
Number of guest stays per year
Open or closed architecture: rather open
Conservative or modern building style: conventional
Open kitchen, kitchen island
Number of dining seats
Fireplace: yes
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: double garage
Utility garden, greenhouse:
Additional wishes/particulars/daily routine, including reasons why certain features should or should not be included
House design
Who created the plan:
- Do-it-yourself
What do you especially like? Why? Many windows for light
What do you not like? Why?
Price estimate according to architect/designer:
Personal price limit for the house, including fixtures and fittings:
Preferred heating system: air-source heat pump
If you have to give up some details or expansions:
- Which can you do without:
- Which can you not do without:
Why is the design like it is now? For example:
Angled building design for view and noise protection from the street
I would like to share our nearly finished floor plan and immediately ask for your opinions.
What would you change or do differently?
I appreciate any tips, suggestions, or advice...
Thank you very much in advance to everyone.
Development plan/restrictions
Plot size: 1580m² (0.39 acres)
Terrain: slight slope towards the street
Site coverage ratio
Floor area ratio
Building envelope, building line, and boundary:
Edge development
Number of parking spaces
Number of floors: two full stories
Roof type: gable roof
Architectural style
Orientation
Maximum heights/limits
Other requirements
Owners’ requirements
Style, roof type, building type: gable roof, angled building design
Basement, floors: two full stories with basement
Number of occupants, ages: 2 adults (early 30s) and 2 young children (1 and 4 years old)
Space requirements on the ground floor: living/dining area, kitchen, WC and shower, office (possibly a bedroom later), pantry
Upper floor: 2 children’s rooms, master bedroom, sewing room, bathroom
Office: family use or home office? Family use
Number of guest stays per year
Open or closed architecture: rather open
Conservative or modern building style: conventional
Open kitchen, kitchen island
Number of dining seats
Fireplace: yes
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: double garage
Utility garden, greenhouse:
Additional wishes/particulars/daily routine, including reasons why certain features should or should not be included
House design
Who created the plan:
- Do-it-yourself
What do you especially like? Why? Many windows for light
What do you not like? Why?
Price estimate according to architect/designer:
Personal price limit for the house, including fixtures and fittings:
Preferred heating system: air-source heat pump
If you have to give up some details or expansions:
- Which can you do without:
- Which can you not do without:
Why is the design like it is now? For example:
Angled building design for view and noise protection from the street
haydee schrieb:
No idea. But it's true that the appearance resembles a building that has been remodeled multiple times. Maybe instead of a full additional story, a higher knee wall or completely embedding the basement would be better so that the ground floor is level with the outside ground. A flatter design would suit the building well.
It’s a huge house, but it doesn’t have to look like a multi-family dwelling.
Try implementing Climbee’s suggestions. The basement is fully embedded. We want direct, level access from the ground floor to the terrace. Due to the slight slope of the site, there is an elevation difference of about 50cm (20 inches) to the front door, which is why there are steps.
haydee schrieb:
Then just fill it up there as well. That would do the slope some good.We have considered that too, but this area is along the access roads, which are lower than the house, so you still have to go up somehow. The garage is at the lowest point.
Moving the entrance probably won’t help either.
Entrance steps are not desired, and if they can be avoided, they will be removed.
Climbee schrieb:
Oh man, can you please stop the bickering here? Take it to private messages. Bickering involving participants with fewer than 100 posts here is unfortunately only possible as a broadcast.
Climbee schrieb:
Obviously, they definitely want this unusual (and cost-driving) building shape. The building complex itself is not unusual. Only two things are unusual: first, to build a genuine fake of a conversion on a basis full of compromises—that gives retro and vintage a whole new twist. And it’s not cost-driving in terms of construction costs, but rather in terms of destroying the mortgage and resale value, since the market does not demand such a strange and crazy conversion-fake—not the traditional real estate market nor the one for film sets. Second, unusual is the—let’s say nicely—the perfect independence of the floor plan shape from that of the plot.
Climbee schrieb:
If I choose such an unusual shape, I make it the centerpiece of my house. For the “wow” effect. I can only agree with you and @hampshire on that.
Kerstili schrieb:
It was mentioned that the load-bearing walls are oriented the wrong way. [...] The structural engineering has not yet been verified. Climbee schrieb:
If you still don’t believe it, go to a local carpenter and just get an estimate for the roof structure. The structural engineer doesn’t care; they just add more steel and additional beams and support elements to the shopping list, then it fits—and combined with the roof structure, this fully uses the budget even with a building form that meets aesthetic standards. It’s not the floor plan that makes the roof structure expensive, but the arrangement of the load-bearing walls. Placing them classically, even crossing the rafters, would probably make both the ceilings and the roof structure cheaper— even if the suggestion to incorporate the kink into the spatial experience is followed.
To summarize:
1. Separate the interests of house shape and garden noise protection so that the main issue remains the main issue
2. Don’t waste money rebuilding a converted mixed-use property from 1960 combining commercial, office, and owner’s apartment, but build a contemporary residential house
3. Model the site without stairs to an old-fashioned raised ground floor entrance
4. Use the beloved kink first as a living comfort chakra and second to create a courtyard zone on the property
5. Leave the structural planning to people who can think in ceiling fields and roof structures.
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