ᐅ Single-family House on a Slope – Feedback on the Current Floor Plan

Alessandro schrieb:

Just as every city villa under 300sqm (3,230 sq ft) is an "instead-villa" for @11ant 🙄

Since you are usually quite nice, I assume there is no ill intent behind this accusation, just a misunderstanding.
I have NEVER mocked the fact that other people—who, like myself, do not come from wealthy or aristocratic backgrounds—naturally have to place their dream homes in the lower leagues, far below the living areas typical of princely residences, whether they want to or have to!
My criticism of this category of houses is actually displaced anger directed at the builders, because the real mockery lies in their disrespect for their customers’ dignity: people whose financial situation only allows for a so-called beer coaster house of around ninety square meters (about 970 sq ft) are given a square floor plan (because that works best for people with little sense of dimensions, to fool them into thinking the clear layout is a great discovery of generosity and space efficiency). The symmetrical garden facade—since symmetry is essential to simulate aesthetics for those untrained in proportions—is then decorated with French balconies, topped with a hip roof, and voilà: at least the Potemkin-version of the city villa lookalike is complete. But it’s a fake, which is why it’s "instead". I could have called it a "city villa surrogate," but that would have sounded a bit too elitist from my high-school vocabulary. So I chose the wordplay combining "city," "villa," and "unfortunately just a facade instead of the real thing" by calling it an “instead-villa.” Another member—sorry, the name escapes me at the moment—was even more clever and simply put ‘city villa’ in quotation marks. Sometimes others come up with catchy terms faster than I do and coin a word that I am happy to adopt, like @Nordlys with his "estrich-Achmeds" (screed Ahmeds), to which I can only say, “Chapeau, bullseye!” But back to the "city villas" / instead-villas: in promotional drawings, these houses—affordable for the average skilled worker—are often shown as literally “detached” single-family homes: omitting not only fences but also neighboring houses, almost park-like, plus landscaping fit for Dior (at least hardly cheaper than the shell). According to the marketing images, plenty of money remains for the homeowner to park a Z4, Speedster, or (new!) S6 Avant in the carport. That I find to be the most insulting mockery of homebuilding dreams, and therefore I consider it very subtly satirical to comment on it only by calling it an "instead-villa."
The same applies to the "Hornbach style": it is no shame for an average person without formal architectural education to have only a superficial familiarity with the Bauhaus school. But abusing that by selling every white cube as "Bauhaus style" is, in my opinion, utterly unacceptable. Here another member found a sharp phrase to criticize that mockery as well. Like often with me, I thought laterally and, since this (pseudo) Bauhaus has more to do with the supermarket chain of the same name than with the actual school of architecture, I dubbed this “style” that is “Bauhaus, but not quite” the "Hornbach style," after a competitor of the supermarket chain.
So: 11ants are smart creatures with good memories and a sense of justice, gently handled except for porcelain. And therefore, it is more likely for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for an 11ant to strike the wrong person down with a palm branch: “instead-villa” criticizes not the absence of golden spoons in a normal consumer’s cutlery drawer but the shameless cheap rip-off tricks of the home building mafia; a flat roof alone does not make a Bauhaus just as a swallow does not make a summer; and by the way, the estrich-Achmeds call themselves that too. I will not explain this term or my use of it again here, as I have recently referred to the explanations in https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/einbehalt-von-zahlungen-fuer-maengel-am-rohbau.38051/page-5#post-470945.

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RomeoZwo schrieb:

I think the 4 windows in front of the entrance door are intended as a privacy screen, a second vestibule (but more like a wind tunnel), or whatever (?).

Correct. The front door is hidden behind the outer vestibule. However, this will be replaced by a kind of canopy with side protection.

ypg schrieb:

Yep! Subtract 180cm (70 inches) for the tall cabinets for the oven and fridge from the 4 meters (13 feet), and you’re left with 2.20 meters (7 feet 3 inches). One meter (3 feet 3 inches) for knives and the coffee machine—everyone’s got something like that—so you’re at 1.20 meters (3 feet 11 inches) plus a 2-meter (6 feet 7 inches) island. In our two-person household, we have more, and it’s tight.

The pantry will be reduced in size, but the kitchen counter will be longer.

Crossy schrieb:

The bed in the master bedroom won’t work like that. At least not with nightstands. Unless you’re planning to sleep permanently on a 1.4 m (4.6 ft) futon. How do you get from the living/dining area to the garden?

The bed is drawn as 2 m (6.6 ft) long. So that should work.

We want to access the garden from the living/dining area through the large windows or doors. I’ve attached the plan again. We might still enlarge the space behind the table a bit.

Alessandro schrieb:

Rotate the bed in the bedroom and do without the window facing the open space. You don’t want to look directly into the children’s room, and the child certainly doesn’t want that either.

We had already considered that. I don’t think either the children or we want to constantly be able to see into each other’s bedrooms. ;-)

icandoit schrieb:

I assume north is at the top right corner of the site plan.

For better understanding, here are the contour lines spaced 1 meter (3.3 feet) apart.

The ground floor is 1.5 meters (5 feet) above the entrance![ATTACH alt="einfamilienhaus-am-hang-feedback-zum-aktuellen-grundriss-474324-1.JPG"]57853[/ATTACH]

Exactly right, @icandoit Thanks for your effort!