ᐅ Single-family house with a walkable green roof carport on a sloped site
Created on: 22 Dec 2019 09:40
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Anolca*
Dear forum members,
In April, we purchased a really small plot of land (315 sqm (3395 sq ft)). Soon, a single-family house with a walkable green roof carport will be built on it. Due to the sloped terrain, the street-facing basement will be used as living space for bedrooms and a bathroom.
The entrance will lead directly into the living level from the side.
The building permit / planning permission has now been granted, with a few minor conditions. We expected this since our plot is located in an area designated as outside the main development zone and also within a water and landscape protection area.
We are building a solid brick house in monolithic construction (Poroton) without any frills, completely old-fashioned (small rooms, no floor-to-ceiling windows and those only in white), but turnkey via a general contractor.
On January 6th (06.01.), the site will be cleared, and after the surveyor has marked it out, construction will start.
Beforehand, we will drop off a card at the nearest neighbors’ houses, along with a small survival kit for neighbors of builders (cotton wool for sound insulation, something sweet as comfort food, and a painted picture by our daughter as window decoration for a nicer view instead of the construction site).
We are filling a small building gap in an old village, so a more personal approach is allowed.
Now we hope that the excavation work in soil classes 6/7 will remain within reasonable limits.
Best regards and happy holidays,
Anolca
In April, we purchased a really small plot of land (315 sqm (3395 sq ft)). Soon, a single-family house with a walkable green roof carport will be built on it. Due to the sloped terrain, the street-facing basement will be used as living space for bedrooms and a bathroom.
The entrance will lead directly into the living level from the side.
The building permit / planning permission has now been granted, with a few minor conditions. We expected this since our plot is located in an area designated as outside the main development zone and also within a water and landscape protection area.
We are building a solid brick house in monolithic construction (Poroton) without any frills, completely old-fashioned (small rooms, no floor-to-ceiling windows and those only in white), but turnkey via a general contractor.
On January 6th (06.01.), the site will be cleared, and after the surveyor has marked it out, construction will start.
Beforehand, we will drop off a card at the nearest neighbors’ houses, along with a small survival kit for neighbors of builders (cotton wool for sound insulation, something sweet as comfort food, and a painted picture by our daughter as window decoration for a nicer view instead of the construction site).
We are filling a small building gap in an old village, so a more personal approach is allowed.
Now we hope that the excavation work in soil classes 6/7 will remain within reasonable limits.
Best regards and happy holidays,
Anolca
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Pinkiponk22 Dec 2019 12:27Anolca* schrieb:
The ground floor is basically the basement level and is partly underground at the back. That’s why there are no windows there. The small garden will be roughly at the level of the accessible, greened carport roof. Thank you for taking the time to reply, even though I now realize I should have figured that out myself since you mentioned it in your first post.
Everything sounds really good; the little garden on the carport roof will surely be very nice. We would have liked that too, but it’s not possible due to the minimum distance required from the neighbor.
haydee schrieb:
At point 6, the excavator refused to dig. The ground is quite hard and rocky. A friend of ours used soil from our terrace excavation to build a wall.
I don’t necessarily see floor-to-ceiling, spacious, and cozy as contradictory. It depends on where the floor-to-ceiling windows are located. Not appropriate in bathrooms or dressing rooms. The interior design has a much greater impact on how cozy a room feels.
Your rooms aren’t that small either. Your master area is almost 20 square meters (215 square feet). I would have just arranged a few things differently.As I said... I hope there won’t be too much material to deal with, as that would be difficult to handle. The earthworks are already outrageously expensive.The floor plan is certainly a bit unusual, but it’s perfect for us. That’s true... small is relative. But compared to 50 square meters (540 square feet) living rooms, which are not uncommon nowadays, we are definitely planning on the smaller side.
I think what someone finds cozy or snug is very personal. Acoustics also play a big role. We simply don’t like floor-to-ceiling windows. Even the glass wall in our kitchen still has knee walls on the right and left sides of the French doors.
Pinkiponk schrieb:
Thank you for taking the time to reply, even though I just realized I could have guessed that since it was mentioned in your first post.
Everything sounds really great, the little garden on the carport roof will definitely be very nice. We would have liked that too, but it’s not possible because of the minimum distance to the neighbor. It was really tight for us as well... but we just managed to keep the 3-meter (10-foot) distance.
I think everyone has to make some compromise when building.
How far along are you with your build?
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Pinkiponk22 Dec 2019 12:41We will sign a house purchase contract with a modular home manufacturer later this year and hope to sell our current home in the first quarter of the new year. Then we will get started right away. Inspired by you, I will also open a thread like this. For now, I want to hold back a little since nothing is really finalized yet, and I don’t want to take up the forum’s attention and resources unnecessarily.
With 50 sqm (540 sq ft), living, dining, and kitchen areas are usually combined. Your house is not small. You have more rooms. A kitchen-living room and a separate dining room instead of one large open space. A small bedroom with a walk-in closet instead of one large room. Why not? We had also planned a small bedroom with an adjacent walk-in closet. During construction, we removed the wall. It was too tight.
Wishing you the best with the flooring. Are the earthworks charged separately? Are the rear wall and structural requirements already included in the price? Our structural engineer calculated an enormous amount of reinforcement and made the floor slab even thicker.
Wishing you the best with the flooring. Are the earthworks charged separately? Are the rear wall and structural requirements already included in the price? Our structural engineer calculated an enormous amount of reinforcement and made the floor slab even thicker.
Pinkiponk schrieb:
We will sign a purchase contract with a prefab home manufacturer this year and hope to sell our current house in the first quarter of the new year. Then we will start right away. Inspired by you, I will open a thread like this as well. For now, I want to hold back a little since nothing is really finalized yet, and I don’t want to unnecessarily use up the forum’s attention and resources. Ah, so you already have a plot of land? Where will you be building?
Where will you live between selling your house and completing the new build?
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