ᐅ Single-Family Home on a South-Facing Slope – Floor Plan Design and Tips?

11ant schrieb:
... is nonsense. It is clearly a client forum here, not an architects’ club.

You asked whether "one" should plan the ground floor first, or what we recommend: usually (ground floor = entrance and living areas, upper floor/attic = sleeping areas) I suggest starting with the upper floor because it is more detailed. Also, as a layperson, it’s easier to “think” about downpipes from the top down.

Then you said that regional architecture was basically born out of necessity. Yes, but that’s actually the root of all regional building cultures. And you don’t exactly distance yourself from that: I see your design as very typical of Germany/Austria/Switzerland Alpine style, and in broad terms, it would look just the same if built 300 years ago from log beams. Except for bathrooms instead of washing at the well or mountain stream, it’s practically an original Alpine hut or seasonal mountain pasture dwelling. Where you place the toilet, you tend to make the room as narrow as a bowling lane. Narrow stairs, cozy tightness, the alcove, the walk-through pantry — a herdsman back then would have built it very similarly. If you told tourists the practice used to be a sheep barn, they’d believe it.

With all due respect to the fact that every family may have their own particular style of coziness, this only partly explains the peculiarities of your planning style, and to a greater extent seems to be due to awkwardness, which is, of course, understandable for a layperson.

A professional, who also doesn’t have to be an “urbanite” and can understand you culturally well, would in my expectation come to a “more generous” architecture. Especially in mountainous regions — as I said, in Germany/Austria/Switzerland and also Italy very similar to each other — much building culture is reinterpreted, i.e. respectfully updated for the present day.

Mottenhausen schrieb:
Exactly! Although the term "mountain range" in "Erzgebirge" shouldn’t be understood as a mountain range in the strict sense, there are still proper winters here and quite popular ski areas. Therefore, alpine-style construction is not really out of place.

Zaba12 schrieb:
But we do that, even regularly! However, there needs to be more than just a drawing like from “The SIM 4,” which we have actually seen before.

I’m looking forward to the floor plan from the designer.

EDIT:

The three floor plans for the basement, ground floor, and upper floor add up to 250 sqm (2690 sq ft) of living space. I’m excluding the attic. You skillfully left out all the hallways.
Also, the basement has living space quality, which means it costs as much as the ground and upper floors.

For new builds in 2019, we calculate about 2,000 € (USD equivalent) per sqm (about 185 sq ft) of living space or 400 € per cubic meter (at least that was my architect’s estimate in 2018).
This works surprisingly well for many projects with mid-range standards. And that’s without additional construction costs (house connections, civil engineering, drainage, fees, architect, energy consultant, etc.), exterior work, kitchen, garage, etc.

I think it’s becoming clear now! I’m also building right now with an architect, including a basement and slope, so I know what I’m talking about when I say your 480k € - 500k € won’t be enough. Unless it’s a shell house and you do absolutely everything else yourselves.